With me Syncthing GTK is still with Syncthing Version 13.6
It would probably help to mention how you normally upgrade.
Syncthing Auto Upgrade?
I run through the apt repo and haven’t had a problem in a while although it sometime seems to fall behind because of cached data. (Cannot tell who would be caching it.)
If syncthing is started by syncthing-gtk, syncthing’s auto upgrade mechanism is effectively disabled. For some reason, they always set STNOUPGRADE [1] and decided it would be better to implement a custom upgrade system. Syncthing-gtk checks for new syncthing versions every 12 hours [2], but I don’t know how reliable this system is.
So, if you let syncthing-gtk start syncthing, you have to enable syncthing-gtk’s upgrade option or use some kind of package management to upgrade syncthing.
If you just want to upgrade to the latest version now, stop syncthing-gtk and syncthing and run syncthing -upgrade from commandline. If it is a recurring problem, I would ask the syncthing-gtk maintainer to add the possibility to allow syncthing to upgrade itself.
I think the aim is for Syncthing-GTK to only allow upgrades to versions which are known to be compatible. In practice, I don’t know how well this system works…
I am on Linux Mint installed Syncthing over Syncthing GTK, the binaries are in the userfolder. And i activated that the binaries should be updatet by Syncthing GTK
In this case, the most reliable option to update syncthing would be switching to the apt repository I guess. Assumed that you have root access, of course.
The only drawback might be that you get a new major release early if you do not pay attention. Depending on your setup, that could lead to incompatible syncthing versions for a few hours or days.
Syncthing requires some learning for inexperienced users and they can feel overwhelmed.
I think a button like ‘Check for upgrade’ to manually start the upgrade processes would be a good addition to syncthing-gtk because asking people to 1) shutdown syncthing-gtk 2) run ./syncthing -upgrade and 3) open syncthing-gtk is just one extra difficulty that could be avoided.
Thanks!
You should probably open an issue for syncthing-gtk. I’m not sure if @kozec reads your suggestion here.
ok 
Yes switched to the repos
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