Auto-update breaks when going from electron-builder version 20.44.4 to latest version (21.2.0)

• Version: 20.44.4

• Electron-updater Version: 4.2.0

• Target: Win32 and Win64

For some months now I’ve tried updating the electron-builder version from 20.44.4 to the latest version, 21.2.0. Everything seems to be fine but when the app is going to be updated via the auto-update feature, it presents an unexpected behavior:

When updating to the latest stable version (21.2.0) it seems to never enter the update-downloaded event. The last log present is “Full: 51,655.77 KB, To download: 51,584.6 KB (100%)”. It stays there and it never does the quit and install part of the process.

My logic on the update-downloaded event is as follows:

autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', async (updateInfo) => {
    log.info("UPDATE DOWNLOADED... INSTALLING")
    setImmediate(() => {
        autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();
        app.exit()
    })
})

This logic has worked all the time when updating my app with electron-builder version 20.44.4, but it breaks whenever the current version is 20.44.4 and the new version to download has any 21.x.x electron-builder version as a dependency. (I also tried on the latest 22.2.0 version without any luck, same behavior as before). I would like to be able to update electron-builder to the latest version without compromising the auto-update feature and be able to automatically update electron-builder on the hundreds of devices that are already running our app on 20.44.4 electron-builder version.

Thanks!

[almamlaka]

hi same thing for me @amargautam I think what @cegonzalv problem and my is different from you, it does not detect any download

isn’t capable of finishing downloading or it never enters the ‘update-downloaded’ event

@cegonzalv from which version it was working before for you ?

I use the last release 22.3.2 with nsis target

[amargautam]

This happened to me too!

@cegonzalv is correct that it detects the download, it downloads, send a notification that download is complete but then when you restart the app, it is still on older version and the notification keeps coming up.

Luckily I am only on the alpha of my v2 for my app. So I didn’t care much. I simply upgraded to the latest version for next alpha and manually updated it. I will be too cautious in production while upgrading electron-builder and updater.