smokey7722 15 Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 Years ago I disabled the automatic updates as many of the updates would cause problems and so any time I actually apply an update I go through a process of backing things up prior and need to do so manually. However over the past year this option keeps getting automatically re-enabled. It seems certain plugins are doing it and every time I actually upgrade manually to a newer version. I just upgraded from 3.2.60.0 to 3.2.70.0 a minute ago and as expected, it enabled it again and I had to disable it. Is there a reason that the previous settings are ignored and overwritten every time an upgrade is performed?
Luke 42080 Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 it's a known issue for now but only happens if you click the update button in the web app. if you install from the website it won't happen.
smokey7722 15 Posted January 24, 2018 Author Posted January 24, 2018 it's a known issue for now but only happens if you click the update button in the web app. if you install from the website it won't happen. Ok, and that makes sense since I generally update from the web app as its simpler. As long as its a known issue I can manually disable it each time or download the installer from the site. The random enabling of it without updates has stopped (that was happening for a while) though it seems so thats good at least.
smokey7722 15 Posted May 3, 2018 Author Posted May 3, 2018 Just as a heads up, 3.4.0.0 just installed yesterday on my server and I did not tell it to. I had the option disabled, haven't updated any plugins or initiated any updates myself yet somehow it magically turned on again and updated .
Luke 42080 Posted May 3, 2018 Posted May 3, 2018 Currently if you click the button to run the scheduled task to check for updates, it will also update as well. I didn't realize that so i'll look at that for the next release.
smokey7722 15 Posted May 3, 2018 Author Posted May 3, 2018 (edited) Ok thank you. I'm happy having it check for updates so I know they are available but it really needs to honor the preferences we have configured in the server and not apply them. And I didn't click the button to run the task - the task ran on its on if that matters. Edited May 3, 2018 by smokey7722
smokey7722 15 Posted August 14, 2018 Author Posted August 14, 2018 Currently if you click the button to run the scheduled task to check for updates, it will also update as well. I didn't realize that so i'll look at that for the next release. I'm currently running 3.5.1.0 and clicking the option to check for updates still changes the preference to automatically apply them.
Luke 42080 Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 Yes that's correct. We did not get to it for the 3.5 release. We'll look at it for 3.6. Thanks.
smokey7722 15 Posted August 14, 2018 Author Posted August 14, 2018 Sounds good, thanks for the update.
smokey7722 15 Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) To bring this back from the dead - with 4.0.1.0 the option to "Enable automatic server updates" seems to now be re-enabling itself nightly when the check for updates completes and I have no way to prevent the server from automatically applying those updates any longer at all. In the past I could just kill the job's schedule and run it when I wanted only and then apply updates as needed but now I have no choice as to when an update is applied. Edited January 28, 2019 by smokey7722
smokey7722 15 Posted January 29, 2019 Author Posted January 29, 2019 We'll take a look at this. Thanks. I've bee keeping an eye on it and it didn't enable it overnight nor when the server started so not sure when its happening but I know when I first upgraded to 4.0 I disabled the auto update feature as thats now a habit I have to follow and found that it enabled itself multiple times after a few days of operation.
smokey7722 15 Posted February 19, 2019 Author Posted February 19, 2019 Looks like the moment you click the button to install a new server update it enabled the automatic updates checkbox again. I just confirmed this via testing the 4.0.2.0 upgrade. Would be nice if this could be fixed so I can control my installation and upgrade when I want to without having to remember to uncheck this box every time an upgrade is performed.
Luke 42080 Posted February 20, 2019 Posted February 20, 2019 That is correct. I just haven't had a chance to get to this yet. Thanks. 1
smokey7722 15 Posted August 6, 2019 Author Posted August 6, 2019 @@Luke, Just to bring up, 4.2.0.40 upgrade I manually initiated enabled the automatic server upgrade option again so I assume you haven't had a chance to look at it still.
bfir3 117 Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Can confirm, this just happened to me. I had auto updates disabled before I updated to 4.2.04, but now I just noticed the server updated to 4.2.1.0 pending restart. Is there any way I can abort the update or prevent it from occurring if the process or server restarts? If not, it's not big deal, I can just backup my existing server instance. Edited August 9, 2019 by bfir3
Luke 42080 Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 You could delete the updates folder under the server's program data folder.
Happy2Play 9782 Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 Yep, plugins are the only thing that is actually installed before a restart when they are updated/installed.
smokey7722 15 Posted January 2, 2020 Author Posted January 2, 2020 4.3.1.0 re-enabled this as well again with the upgrade a moment ago.
zebo51 22 Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 haha yeah still doing it. I'm just in the habit of disabling it each time after I do an upgrade ;). Seems like a pretty big security bug to me though and would be closer to the top of things to fix.
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