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feat(updates): the title bar offers a check for updates on every platform - #2379
The title bar's update pill now offers Check for updates whenever no update is downloading or ready, on Windows, Linux and macOS.
State
Before
After
Idle, up to date, failed check
nothing
muted ↑ in a circle (CircleArrowUp02Icon); widens to "Check for updates" on hover; click checks
Checking
nothing
muted spinner, not clickable
Downloading
blue progress ring
unchanged
Ready
blue "Update" pill
unchanged
Updates locked (policy or package manager)
nothing
nothing
Docker / bare browser
nothing
nothing
The check is the existing useCheckForUpdates, so while automatic checks are off it still asks first, naming the host.
A check started from the title bar reports its result in a toast, up to date or failed, as the macOS menu's check does. That logic moved out of MenuUpdateCheck into use-reported-check.ts, which both share. The two toast keys moved from updates_menu_* to updates_check_*, with their translations carried over unchanged.
It hides while the lock is being read, so a locked install never flashes the button. If that read fails, a downloaded update's restart button still shows.
Four new strings, translated into every language.
docs/architecture/updates.md describes the new pill.
Why
Update checks are off by default, and the pill only appeared once a download had started. So a user who never opened Settings never saw an update. On Windows and Linux, which have no app menu, Settings › About was the only way to check.
Fixes #
How to test
cd surfsense_local/frontend && pnpm test and pnpm test:docker.
cd surfsense_local/electron && pnpm dev:
Check from the title bar. Hover the ↑ beside the right-panel toggle: it widens to "Check for updates". With update checks off, clicking asks first. Allow, and it spins, then shows a toast or starts the download ring.
Locked install. With an admin policy "updates": "off", the pill is gone.
High-level PR Summary
This PR adds a Check for updates button to the title bar on all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS), addressing a discoverability issue where users with automatic updates disabled never saw update notifications. The button appears as a muted circle-arrow icon when idle, transforms into a spinner while checking, and provides toast feedback for check results. It respects admin policies and package manager locks by hiding when updates are managed externally.
Check for updates from the title bar on every platform, with clear idle and in-progress states. Available updates appear there and can be installed.
Title-bar and menu checks show a toast when the app is up to date or a check fails, including when Settings is closed.
Bug Fixes
The title-bar check is hidden when updates are unavailable due to policy or package-manager restrictions, or when no updater is available. It appears after privacy status loads; ready updates remain available to install.
…form
Windows and Linux had no way to check outside Settings › About. The title
bar's pill now offers the check while nothing is downloading or ready,
shows a spinner while it runs, and reports the result in a toast as the
macOS menu does. It keeps no space where a policy or a package manager
owns updates, or in Docker, which has no updater.
The title bar now offers update checks when an updater is available and updates are unlocked. The title bar and app menu use shared result reporting. Translations, tests, and architecture guidance cover the updated interface and check states.
useReportedCheck handles success and error toasts after observing a running check. The app menu uses the hook, and toast translation keys are renamed across the locales.
The title bar shows a manual check button when an updater is available and updates are unlocked, a status pill while checking, and the ready update action. Tests cover these states and unavailable conditions. Locales and architecture guidance describe the labels and behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant TitleBarUpdate
participant MenuUpdateCheck
participant useReportedCheck
participant useCheckForUpdates
participant UpdateState
participant Toast
TitleBarUpdate->>useReportedCheck: invoke reported check
MenuUpdateCheck->>useReportedCheck: invoke reported check
useReportedCheck->>useCheckForUpdates: start check
useCheckForUpdates->>UpdateState: update check state
UpdateState-->>useReportedCheck: report terminal state after running
useReportedCheck->>Toast: show up-to-date or error result
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Possibly related PRs
MODSetter/SurfSense#2358: Documents package-manager-owned update behavior and the update-lock state used by the title-bar check UI.
MODSetter/SurfSense#2338: Adds install-channel detection and the update-lock contract used by the title-bar check UI.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 7c955
The duplicate update notifications are addressed. The remaining concern is a narrow test-coverage improvement; no production failure is established, so this is mergeable with follow-up.
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Assert that the idle check button stays hidden when the lock read fails.
The "still restarts into a downloaded update" test checks only the restart button. It does not check that the idle "Check for updates" button stays hidden while the privacy read fails. A change that exposes the check in this state would not fail this test. The current implementation hides the button, so this test adds coverage for that behavior.
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Review comment at
@surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/title-bar-update.test.tsx around
lines 139 - 150:
Update the “still restarts into a downloaded update” test to assert that the
“Check for updates” button is absent after the privacy state read rejects and
before the ready update state is pushed. Keep the existing restart-button
assertion.
…batched
A second click before the first consent answer asked again. The check's
result was read from rendered state, where "checking" and the result can
land in one render, leaving no toast and a stale phase that a later
automatic check would answer.
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…ult once
Each surface tracked its own pending check, so overlapping checks from
both showed one result as two toasts. The pending check is now one per
updater.
The test named "reports one result once, when the menu checks too" passes when the menu listener does nothing. The title-bar click alone produces the single toast. Add an assertion on bridge.calls after checkFromMenu(). The test then fails if the menu does not forward its check.
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Review comment at
@surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/title-bar-update.test.tsx around
lines 130 - 134:
Update the test “reports one result once, when the menu checks too” to assert
that bridge.calls records both checks after bridge.checkFromMenu() completes.
Keep the existing toast assertion and status updates so the test verifies both
menu forwarding and single-toast behavior.
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What
The title bar's update pill now offers Check for updates whenever no update is downloading or ready, on Windows, Linux and macOS.
CircleArrowUp02Icon); widens to "Check for updates" on hover; click checksuseCheckForUpdates, so while automatic checks are off it still asks first, naming the host.MenuUpdateCheckintouse-reported-check.ts, which both share. The two toast keys moved fromupdates_menu_*toupdates_check_*, with their translations carried over unchanged.docs/architecture/updates.mddescribes the new pill.Why
Update checks are off by default, and the pill only appeared once a download had started. So a user who never opened Settings never saw an update. On Windows and Linux, which have no app menu, Settings › About was the only way to check.
Fixes #
How to test
cd surfsense_local/frontend && pnpm testandpnpm test:docker.cd surfsense_local/electron && pnpm dev:"updates": "off", the pill is gone.High-level PR Summary
This PR adds a Check for updates button to the title bar on all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS), addressing a discoverability issue where users with automatic updates disabled never saw update notifications. The button appears as a muted circle-arrow icon when idle, transforms into a spinner while checking, and provides toast feedback for check results. It respects admin policies and package manager locks by hiding when updates are managed externally.
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docs/architecture/updates.mdsurfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/use-reported-check.tssurfsense_local/frontend/src/components/ui/icons.tsxsurfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/title-bar-update.tsxsurfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/menu-update-check.tsxsurfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/use-check-for-updates.tssurfsense_local/frontend/src/features/updates/title-bar-update.test.tsxsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/en.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/de.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/es.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/fr.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/hi.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/ja.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/ko.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/pt-BR.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/ru.jsonsurfsense_local/frontend/translations/zh-CN.jsonSummary by CodeRabbit