[Bug]: Upgrade to 3.14.0 changes update channel from Stable to Daily

[uselpa]

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Bug description

Version 3.14.0 changes the update channel. It should not.

Steps to reproduce

Update Nextcloud desktop client from 3.13.4 to 3.14.0

Expected behavior

Do not touch that setting.

Which files are affected by this bug

none

Operating system

macOS

Which version of the operating system you are running.

15.0

Package

Official macOS 12+ universal pkg

Nextcloud Server version

28

Nextcloud Desktop Client version

3.14.0

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

Updated to a major version (ex. 3.3.6 to 3.4.0)

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

Encryption is Disabled

Are you using an external user-backend?

• Default internal user-backend
• LDAP/ Active Directory
• SSO - SAML
• Other

Nextcloud Server logs

No response

Additional info

No response

[MariusQuabeck]

can confirm, my client on stable channel just updated itself to 3.14.0daily

[jonasgarstick]

Same here.

[mgallien]

@MariusQuabeck @jonasgarstick which OS are you using ?

[mgallien]

@uselpa @MariusQuabeck @jonasgarstick
I just tested on Windows upgrading from 3.13.4 to 3.14.0 and could not reproduce
would you be able to reproduce it and generate a debug archive once you have the issue ?
I can provide an upload only share link if you need

[jonasgarstick]

@MariusQuabeck @jonasgarstick which OS are you using ?

It was on a macOS with Ventura v13.6.6. My desktop client on macOS v14.6.1 installed 3.14.0daily but did not switch the update channel to daily.

[camilasan]

I couldn't reproduce this on mac OS (Sonoma 14.5).
When the client updates to a new version, it create a backup of the config file. Could you check in the back up config file if the value of updateChannel is set to anything like: updateChannel=stable?
The backup files are found in ~/Library/Preferences/Nextcloud, it should be named something like nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240926_120253_3.13.4stable (build 25658).

[uselpa]

n.b. the following is after having set the channel back to "stable"

pu@Greenmac 504 ~/Library/Preferences/Nextcloud $  ls -altr *.cfg*
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff    37 28 Apr 13:46 nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240428_134646
-rw-------  1 pu  staff     0 22 May 18:03 nextcloud.cfg.dGbycF
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff     0  9 Jun 00:29 nextcloud.cfg.jeIcCg
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff     0 29 Jun 20:04 nextcloud.cfg.MjVWDE
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff  1163  4 Jul 18:35 nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240704_183504_3.13.0git (build 22490)
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff  1166  9 Jul 21:51 nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240709_215119_3.13.1stable (build 24143)
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff  1691 26 Aug 16:06 nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240826_160626_3.13.2stable (build 24386)
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff  1691 13 Sep 14:24 nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240913_142456_3.13.3stable (build 25180)
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff  1692 21 Sep 10:23 nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240921_102337_3.13.4stable (build 25658)
-rw-r--r--  1 pu  staff  2303 26 Sep 07:01 nextcloud.cfg

pu@Greenmac 505 ~/Library/Preferences/Nextcloud $  diff "nextcloud.cfg.backup_20240921_102337_3.13.4stable (build 25658)" nextcloud.cfg
2c2
< clientVersion=3.13.4stable (build 25658)
---
> clientVersion=3.14.0daily
4a5
> desktopEnterpriseChannel=daily
15a17
> updateChannel=stable
29a32,41
> 0\networkDownloadLimit=0
> 0\networkDownloadLimitSetting=-2
> 0\networkProxyHostName=
> 0\networkProxyNeedsAuth=false
> 0\networkProxyPort=0
> 0\networkProxySetting=0
> 0\networkProxyType=0
> 0\networkProxyUser=
> 0\networkUploadLimit=0
> 0\networkUploadLimitSetting=-2
30a43
> 0\serverHasValidSubscription=false
46a60,69
> 1\networkDownloadLimit=0
> 1\networkDownloadLimitSetting=-2
> 1\networkProxyHostName=
> 1\networkProxyNeedsAuth=false
> 1\networkProxyPort=0
> 1\networkProxySetting=0
> 1\networkProxyType=0
> 1\networkProxyUser=
> 1\networkUploadLimit=0
> 1\networkUploadLimitSetting=-2
47a71
> 1\serverHasValidSubscription=false
``

[stacheldrahtje]

Same here on openSUSE Tumbleweed

[core-code]

apart from the "update channel", just downloading recent releases on macOS you can see that the official releases are now being labeled "daily" instead of "stable". this should obviously not happen for official releases.

the change happend with 3.14.0, which was the first official release being labeled as "daily".

in technical terms the issue here is the in CFBundleShortVersionString stored in the Info.plist file

could it be that what the others are seeing here is also just a change in the labels that are being used, since the official stable releases are now labelled "daily"?

[MariusQuabeck]

I am also back on daily without my doing 🙃 . I had to reinstall last time to get on stable again, please let me know if you need any files for debugging before I nuke and pave again.

[lenaulrich]

Updated around 14 Nextcloud clients:
6x Windows: No issues; clients remain on the correct update channel
8x macOS (various OS versions, minimum Sonoma): All clients already updated to versions 3.14.0 or 3.14.1 were unexpectedly on the daily update channel and displayed no further updates. After manually switching these clients back to the stable channel, the update to version 3.14.3 became visible and could be installed. Following this update, the channel remains set to stable.

Any ideas how this can be resolved without requiring user interaction?

[core-code]

still broken in 3.15 :(

[core-code]

but fixed in 3.15.1 :)