Re: Windows update on development version

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 10:32, Dario Lombardo <lomato () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm not that used to builds on windows, then maybe what happened is
> perfectly normal.
> I fired up a dev version of wireshark and suddenly wireshark asked me if I
> wanted to update to a newer version. I have no idea of what would have
> happened if I accepted.
> Shouldn't updates be disabled on builded versions? That is what I would
> expect. Or is it normal?
> Thanks.
> Dario.
Perfectly normal, it simply compares the version number installed to
current stable (by default), no notice is taken if it's a custom build or a
regular release.
The check can be disabled with the gui.update.enabled setting if you wish
and the reference version can be set to development with gui.update.channel.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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