Proxmenux Updates

[tismofied]

Is checking the github page the only way to check for updates for proxmenux itself? I don't use the graphical menu inside proxmox just the GUI and it never let me there was 2 releases. I am still on 1.26 as of today. New release notification on the webGUI would be very helpful to notice the version change.

[tw4]

Hi @tismofied,

ProxMenux Monitor (the web GUI on :8008) already checks this, it's just easy to miss. Since 1.2.6 the Monitor's polling loop calls _check_proxmenux_updates() (AppImage/scripts/notification_events.py) once every 24 h. It compares /usr/local/share/proxmenux/version.txt with version.txt on the main branch on GitHub and writes the result to update_available in /usr/local/share/proxmenux/config.json.

You can see it in two places:

• the logo in the dashboard's top-left corner switches to proxmenux_update-logo.png while an update is pending. That's the only hint in the UI, no banner or popup.
• a "ProxMenux X.Y.Z available" notification (proxmenux_update, enabled by default). It only reaches you if you've set up a notification channel in the Monitor's notification settings, so if you never configured one, nothing gets sent.

The check runs even with notifications turned off, so the logo should change either way. To see the current state: jq .update_available /usr/local/share/proxmenux/config.json.

The menu CLI checks too, every time you start it (menu, against the same version.txt), and offers the update right there.

Hope that helps!

[tismofied]

Yes it does help. I never noticed the notification service on the menu config. I will set that up later. Thank you for replying.