abc-updater

ABC Updater

This is not an official Google product.

Description

ABC updater is an embeddable library to notify application users if there is a newer version available.

In the future, it may include security bulletin features, and coarse metrics.

It is intended to be run with a separate backend, where application information is stored in JSON. Version checks and notifications will only happen once per day.

Opt Out

You can opt out of update notifications. Every application consuming abc updater will define an app id. toUpperCase(id) can be used in an env var to do so.

For example, if an app had id foo_bar_123, you could opt out by setting the env var FOO_BAR_123_IGNORE_VERSIONS.

This is most easily shown by example:

# If newest version is 1.0.7, don't notify
FOO_BAR_123_IGNORE_VERSIONS=1.0.7
# Don't notify unless new version if at least 2.0.0
FOO_BAR_123_IGNORE_VERSIONS=<2.0.0
# Don't check for new versions at all.
FOO_BAR_123_IGNORE_VERSIONS=ALL

# You can combine multiple constraints with commas:
# Don't notify if new version is 1.9.3 or 2.0.3 
FOO_BAR_123_IGNORE_VERSIONS=1.9.3,2.0.3

Limitations

Currently, only the newest version is fetched. This means that if you are on 1.3.0 and some fix 1.4.0 was released after a 2.0 was released, you would only be notified of the 2.0, and if you ignored 2.0, you still would not see the 1.4.0.