[flysimdev]

Updates install only when the user chooses

Problem: with an update downloaded, closing and reopening the app installed it at launch without asking. Velopack's startup hook installs any downloaded update by default.

Changes

• No install at launch: VelopackApp.Build().SetAutoApplyOnStartup(false) in Program.cs. Updates still download in the background.
• Confirmation window: the Home banner's Update… button opens UpdateDialog, which shows the version, the release notes, a link to the GitHub Release, and Update and restart / Not now buttons. It installs only on confirm, and only while streaming is stopped.
• Release notes:
  • build-installer.ps1 packs release-notes/v<version>.md into the update feed (vpk pack --releaseNotes).
  • For updates packed without notes (1.2.2 and older), the app reads the GitHub Release text instead. It stops at GitHub's generated "What's Changed" list.
  • ReleaseNotes shows the Markdown as headings, bullets, paragraphs and bold text.

Testing

• New tests: ReleaseNotesTests, GithubReleaseNotesTests. ViewsTests also loads the update window, with and without notes.
• Manual: installed a local build at an older version, saw the banner, reopened the app and it was not updated, opened the window and it showed 1.2.2's notes from GitHub.

Note: people on 1.2.2 or older will be updated at launch one last time, because their installed version's own startup code runs. After that, updates wait for the click.

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