Rocket.Chat.Electron depends on outdated Electron version 22

[buzo-ffm]

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• I had searched in the issues and found no similar issues.

Operating System

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

Operating System Version

Arch Linux rolling release

It happens on the web browser too?

No, it just happens on the Desktop app

Rocket.Chat Desktop App Version

3.9.14

Rocket.Chat Server Version

any

Describe the bug

Please update to a recent Electron version.
Rocket.Chat.Electron still depends on the outdated version 22 ("electron": "22.3.27" in package.json). Arch Linux recently has dropped support for this old version, which renders the AUR package rocketchat-desktop unusable. (I am the maintainer of that package.)

How to Reproduce

Try to build this on Arch Linux.

Describe your Expected behavior

Ideally always depend on one of the stable releases listed here.

Anything else

No response

Are you willing to submit a code contribution?

• Yes, I am willing to submit a Pull Request!

[jeanfbrito]

Hey @buzo-ffm thanks for the reminder.
I'm working on upgrading to Electron 30 already, and want to release this week.

[jeanfbrito]

Updated to v29 on https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/releases/tag/4.0.0

Now we can keep updating sooner. Please tell me if there is any problem. I will close for now.

[buzo-ffm]

Building 4.0.0 with Electron 29 still fails during yarn install:

➤ YN0000: · Yarn 4.0.2
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 202ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Post-resolution validation
➤ YN0060: │ prettier is listed by your project with version 3.2.5, which doesn't satisfy what @rocket.chat/prettier-config (p68591) requests (~2.7.1).
➤ YN0060: │ react is listed by your project with version 18.2.0, which doesn't satisfy what @rocket.chat/fuselage-hooks (p1eae0) and other dependencies request (^17.0.2).
➤ YN0060: │ react-dom is listed by your project with version 18.2.0, which doesn't satisfy what @rocket.chat/fuselage (p1a71d) and other dependencies request (^17.0.2).
➤ YN0060: │ react-virtuoso is listed by your project with version 4.6.2, which doesn't satisfy what @rocket.chat/fuselage (pa8ede) requests (1.2.4).
➤ YN0002: │ rocketchat@workspace:. doesn't provide @rocket.chat/fuselage-tokens (pc9598), requested by @rocket.chat/fuselage-hooks.
➤ YN0086: │ Some peer dependencies are incorrectly met; run yarn explain peer-requirements <hash> for details, where <hash> is the six-letter p-prefixed code.
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0066: │ typescript@patch:typescript@npm%3A5.4.5#optional!builtin<compat/typescript>::version=5.4.5&hash=e012d7: Cannot apply hunk #8
➤ YN0013: │ 1657 packages were added to the project (+ 165.39 MiB).
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 13s 257ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0007: │ electron@npm:28.1.1 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ electron@npm:29.4.1 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ puppeteer@npm:21.7.0 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ sharp@npm:0.29.3 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ puppeteer@npm:13.7.0 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0009: │ sharp@npm:0.29.3 couldn't be built successfully (exit code 1, logs can be found here: /tmp/xfs-6da72578/build.log)
➤ YN0007: │ rocketchat@workspace:. must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 23s 185ms
➤ YN0000: · Failed with errors in 36s 952ms

[buzo-ffm]

The referenced sharp build.log contains:

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp-linux-x64/src/common.o
In file included from ../src/common.cc:24:
/usr/include/vips/vips8:35:10: fatal error: glib-object.h: No such file or directory
   35 | #include <glib-object.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

It is installed though: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h

[jeanfbrito]

Seems to be another thing than Electron version this error. Did you installed vips?

[buzo-ffm]

Yes, I did, version 8.15.1 is the current one on Arch Linux.