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App Update / Win Installer status – 2010-07-18
July 18th, 2010 by rstrong
Progress:
- Submitted a 1.9.2 patch for review for Bug 576939 [Toolkit] – Backport app update fixes to 1.9.2 [All]. This includes fixes for several long standing bugs and adds application update ui tests for 1.9.2.
- Started patch to backport to 1.9.2 Bug 480178 [Toolkit] – Billboard should extend to available space and the update UI should be the same width for all locales [All].
- Submitted a patch for Bug 540537 [Firefox] – In China, set default browser does not work [Windows]. This might not fix all of the issues but it definitely fixes one of the issues. Thanks go out to Lingfeng Guan for tracking down the registry fixes and for testing. btw: the try server was absolutely useless for this bug due to random errors for multiple submissions.
- Discussed the solution with dveditz and johnath for Bug 544442 [Toolkit] – Add support for signed AUS update snippets [All]. Should be able to fix this next week.
- Wrote a service for silent / background updates on Windows along with much of the code for being notified when an update is available, checking if there is a running instance of the application to be updated, etc. The current work provides several of the stepping stones in the full path to getting this working.
Future:
- Fix Bug 544442 [Toolkit] – Add support for signed AUS update snippets [All].
- Fix Bug 577563 [Toolkit] – Consider renaming log files so they don’t have a .log file extension [Windows]. This bug breaks uninstalls after running a utility that removes log files… meh.
- Land on 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 Bug 367539 [Toolkit] – When upgrading an existing install use the uninstall.log to uninstall the previous version before install [Windows]. Yay!
- Get review / land Bug 570689 [Toolkit] – Convert preprocess-locale.pl to a python script [Windows].
- Get review / land Bug 575838 [Toolkit] – Build scripts should be able to handle @BINPATH@/extensions/testpilot@labs.mozilla.com/* in package-manifest.in for the installer [Windows].
- Continue working on silent / background updates on Windows.