Mac users: the app will update itself from the next version, and I need one pair of eyes

[JRpersonal]

On macOS, ST Reborn has always stopped halfway through its own update: it downloaded the disk image, checked it and opened it, and you dragged the app into your Applications folder by hand. Every release, again. Windows and Linux have replaced themselves for a while now.

That is written now. From the next version the app swaps its own bundle and restarts itself, the same way most Mac apps do it.

What I cannot do is try it: I have no Mac. Everything around the swap is careful (the download is checked against the release manifest, the new app has to pass Apple's signature check before it is allowed anywhere, and anything unexpected falls back to exactly today's behaviour, opening the disk image), but the swap itself deserves one real run before anyone trusts it.

So if you have a Mac and would not mind updating once with an eye on it, I would like to hear:

• did the app replace itself and come back on its own
• did macOS ask you anything, or complain about the app afterwards
• where does your ST Reborn live, in Applications or somewhere else

If it goes wrong the fallback is the old path, so the worst case is the manual drag you already know.

[JRpersonal]

It is in v0.9.42, so the offer above is live now.

If you update from within the app on a Mac, it should replace itself and come back on its own, no dragging into Applications. What I would like to know:

• did it come back by itself, and how long did it take
• did macOS say anything about the app afterwards
• where does your ST Reborn live, in Applications or somewhere else

If anything goes sideways it falls back to opening the disk image, which is the old manual path, so the worst case is what you already know.

https://github.com/JRpersonal/streborn/releases/tag/v0.9.42
https://github.com/JRpersonal/streborn/actions/runs/31650896691

[JRpersonal]

Hi @shorty310,

thanks for testing it, and sorry, I sent you at the one direction that could not work. The self replace lives in the app doing the updating, and v0.9.41 knows nothing about it, so it did what it has always done and opened the disk image. v0.9.42 was the first app that can replace itself, so updating from it to v0.9.43 is the real test: same button, and it should come back on its own with no disk image window.

On the presets: confirmed, and it was a bug. Your screenshot shows it exactly, tile 4 still on 181.FM while the line above it plays Radio Art. Both screens read the presets once and then kept them, so a key saved on the other one never arrived. Both re-read in the background now, in both directions, and that is in v0.9.43.

https://github.com/JRpersonal/streborn/releases/tag/v0.9.43

[shorty310]

I deleted my comment because I realized that I ran your test on the wrong software release. Thanks for fixing the preset key bug that I reported.

Here are the download related screens showing that the app auto installed successfully.

15 seconds after the above screen was displayed, the window is updated to display the reminder that the speakers need to be updated:

I used an online stopwatch to time this.

[shorty310]

Why does it take 15 seconds for the "Your speakers still need an update" message to be displayed?

[shorty310]

I don't see a lag in displaying the speaker update text anymore. I don't know if it is because you updated something or because I ejected multiple STR drives on my desktop that I forgot to eject earlier.