Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows update on development version

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 10:32, Dario Lombardo <lomato@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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Graham Bloice