New IDE update notice missing?

[NicoHood]

If a new library is available the IDE will prompt you for an update. But this does not seem to happen for the IDE itself, but I remember that this worked before.

Is it just because I recompiled the IDE myself, or does this only happen on linux?

And if it works again, how can I deactivate it? I've found this, but is this still the correct way to do so?

    # echo -e "\n# By default, don't notify the user of a new upstream version." \
    #         "\n# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773519" \
    #         "\nupdate.check=false" \
    #     >> build/shared/lib/preferences.txt

[per1234]

I believe the cause of the updatable IDE notification no longer being shown is that https://www.arduino.cc/latest.txt has not been updated since 1.6.1.

See: https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/master/app/src/processing/app/UpdateCheck.java#L54

[oqibidipo]

At last! latest.txt says 10801.

[facchinm]

Yeah, we updated it last week 😄 Forgot to close this issue, thanks for the remainder

[NicoHood]

I do not get an update notification for archlinux. This is okay, as we dont want a notifications, however I am not sure if the feature is broken then?

[oqibidipo]

The problem is that the update URL in the IDE is an HTTP URL which is redirected to HTTPS. HttpURLConnection will not follow the redirect when the protocol changes. Changing the URL in the source will fix this for new new versions, but old versions will still remain silent about updates.

However, this could be solved by configuring the server to deliver latest.txt over HTTP while redirecting everything else.

[NicoHood]

Nah I think the webserver should stay with https. However it is good to know why this happens.

[facchinm]

@oqibidipo @NicoHood thanks for the heads-up and the debugging session, we'll check what we can do to get the notification back on older IDEs (I think serving that file over http is ok)

[per1234]

It looks like https://www.arduino.cc/latest.txt has reverted to 10601 for some reason.

[facchinm]

@mastrolinux could you check please? Thanks @per1234

[per1234]

@mastrolinux https://www.arduino.cc/latest.txt is still at 10601. I just don't understand how this can be so difficult.