Intel mac auto-updates to arm64 build. Bump in electron-updater?

• Version: 22.10.4

• Electron Version: 11.1
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

• Target: arm64, x64, windows

I’ve been using electron-updater. Unfortunately I noticed that arm64 builds were being downloaded instead of Intel builds on an Intel mac. When I investigated, I found that my node_modules contained an out-of-date version of electron-updater, which didn’t have any of the "arm64" code updates, and downloaded the arm64 build on an Intel mac.

The version of electron-updater that’s available on NPM is still 4.3.5, but the latest version in the code is 4.3.7. I also don’t know how to install electron-updater from source since it’s part of the monorepo. I think the 4.3.5 version on NPM may actually relate to multiple tags somehow.

Can we please get a bump of electron-updater on NPM to 4.3.7? It might be sufficient to document that electron-updater has to be v4.3.7 and up. Either way, I broke a bunch of installs so I’m trying to stop others having the same problem.

I’d like to move to a unified build eventually, but my app is a few hundred megabytes so I’m putting it off for now 😃

[bjbk]

@elliottkember is this issue still valid using current prerelease versions or are further investigations needed?

I’ll check when I get a chance with the latest version, but the problem disappeared with 4.3.7 so unless there’s a regression I think it will be fine.

I will also attempt to convert to a universal build. x86 and ARM should both auto update to universal right?

I have found that my builds pull down the proper update. First run on Apple Silicon is slower but subsequent starts are quick as normally. The builds show as universal in the System Information under software.

[bjbk]

@romansp yes, the file is the same. And builds are still properly being fetched. I do have to use as yet unreleased versions of builder and updater.