JupyterLab's update notification button does nothing when inside JupyterLab Desktop

[telljmc]

I installed JupyterLab Desktop app on MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 using the MacOS installer several days ago. I just noticed a pop-up window in the bottom right corner notifying me that a new version is available. How do you install it?

I clicked on the notification pop-up expecting to see a button labeled "Apply update" but didn't. Then I opened each of the drop-down menus expecting to find it there but didn't. Then I read the documentation with no luck. Lastly, I searched through the issues but did not find anything that addressed this topic. I am sure it must have been covered somewhere and I missed it.

The closest thing I found is instructions to uninstall old versions before installing a new one. However, it seems unlikely that I should uninstall and reinstall every time there is an incremental release update.

Would someone be kind enough to point me to the documentation or describe how to apply updates?

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[JasonWeill]

@telljmc Thank you for opening this issue! I was running JupyterLab Desktop 4.0.7-1 on macOS 13, and I just opened the app for the first time in a while. I received this popup, which looks like a native macOS popup, asking me to restart to install an update:

Once I clicked "Restart" (twice), the app closed and reopened, having been updated.

Can you attach a screen shot of the behavior you're seeing? I suspect that you're seeing a notification from within JupyterLab's underlying environment, not from JupyterLab Desktop's update checker. This might be an opportunity for JupyterLab Desktop to override JupyterLab's behavior, to not allow the underlying environment's JupyterLab to check for updates from within the desktop app.

[mbektas]

this #760 disables update notifications from web app. desktop app will handle updates separately as usual.

[JasonWeill]

Closing as fixed by #760. Thanks @mbektas !