I’m running version 1.7.0 on OS X and would like to turn automatic updates off, partially because I don’t like them on principle, and partly because it causes a password pop up. I really hate pop ups (almost as much as people who don’t signal on roundabouts).
I’ve looked for a setting, or a launchd plist but have come up with nothing - is there a way available?
Otherwise I’m happy to use a hack like blocking network access, if anyone has the details so I don’t need to watch the client that would be really helpful.
Any help or insight given will be much appreciated.
In Windows 11, go to Settings > System > About > Advanced System Settings, then click the Environment Variables… button on the “Advanced” tab of the System Properties dialog:
The current UI only let the user to update now or later.
It would have been nicer for the UI to present the latest update and allow the user to pick Skip this version. This is useful when there are painful bugs like in 2024.7.1 and in my view, does not create the kind of grave security concerns when users are allowed to turn off auto updates.
I think that would make a nice feature request. Seems like it hasn’t previously been proposed.
To allow users to make an informed decision, such a prompt should display the release notes (or at least include a link to the release notes) — and Bitwarden will have to up their game when it comes to writing release notes (i.e., “Bug fixes” with no additional details will no longer cut it).
I found a “better” approach than to insert a system wide environment variable.
Modify the url key in resources/app-update.yml, just replace the value with any 404 URL and the desktop client will stop updating
