🔄 Fixed: an update that kept failing and never finished
- A few people had Social Prospector trying to update itself, failing, and trying again indefinitely. The app would report a "checksum mismatch" and stop, and the next attempt did exactly the same thing. Nothing was wrong with your installation and nothing was at risk, but the update never landed, so you stayed on an older version without an obvious reason why.
- Here is what was happening. Before an update installs, the app downloads it and checks it against a fingerprint to be certain the file arrived intact and unmodified. That check is doing its job and you want it there. The problem was that a few installs ended up holding on to an old fingerprint while downloading the current file, so the two never agreed, and the check refused the update every single time.
- It does not clear itself. Looking at the records, one person hit the same error on three days running, and another had been stuck on a version from several weeks earlier. Left alone, those installs would have kept failing.
- This release carries new file names, which is what actually breaks the loop. Your app is no longer comparing against anything it was holding on to, so the update simply downloads and installs. If you have been stuck, this is the one that gets you moving again, and you also pick up everything from 0.0.61 that you missed along the way.
📦 Nothing else changed in this one
- There are no new features and no changes to how anything works. If your updates have been installing normally, this is a routine one and you will not notice any difference beyond the version number.
- Worth saying plainly rather than padding the notes: the entire point of this release is to make sure the update itself completes for everyone.
Questions? Reach out anytime at support@prospectorproducts.com