Update Notification & Automatic Updates

[anthonylavado]

To better serve our Windows users, we should notify them when an update is available, and offer to install it for them.

(Plans to be determined.)

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This is part of a larger restructuring effort to improve the experience on Windows.

[ghost]

for the love of god, please someone let the server auto-update. it would be such a huge quality of life improvement!

[kurosh]

Is there any update on this long overdue feature? Even a notification in the dashboard / webhook plugin to notify the user the is an update they'd have to go and manually download and install would be something.

[Danskudadev]

This would be great as newer clients dont alyways work with the server and it's a bit annoying having to manually update servers.

[habeebtc]

I have a first draft at a powershell-based auto-updater, which is intended to be registered as a windows scheduled task.

https://github.com/habeebtc/JellyfinAutomation/blob/main/upgrade-jellyfinserver.ps1

There is some quality of life stuff to add, but the biggest thing seems to be I get an error about starting the Jellyfin windows service when doing a silent upgrade with package.exe /S. Starting the service programmatically after this seems fine, but it hangs the silent upgrade installer. Possibly installer bug, or possibly dumb WinAPI behavior (I haven't had a chance to dig into it yet).

[habeebtc]

Did some further debugging and fixed a few things, and my own auto-upgrade script with the Windows installer is "pretty good" at this point. The big take-away seemed to be to let the installer handle all the server stop/start stuff via nssm.exe. I'm going to leave it running for a few months and see how it goes.

https://github.com/habeebtc/JellyfinAutomation/blob/main/upgrade-jellyfinserver.ps1

I found this gent who built something which works similarly, but using the zip file install method:

https://github.com/realies/jellyfin-autoupdate/blob/master/jellyfin-autoupdate.ps1

You might find that one preferable to your install. Hope this helps someone!

[Danskudadev]

@habeebtc Finally, Will have to check out your project atleast looks nice on first glance and will save a lot of time. have starred it and will try it out when i have some time.

[wikid24]

I just found out last week that my server version was out of date for the last 1.5 years lol. A small tag in the admin dashboard for users to compare their installed version vs the latest version would go a LONG way imho :)

small suggestion/mockup:

link to the version tag (copied directly from jellyfin.org website's source code):

<a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/latest">
<img alt="Current Release" src="https://img.shields.io/github/release/jellyfin/jellyfin.svg">
</a>