Updated Changelog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@
 - Added changelog
 - Added Themes
 - Added Virtual Scrolling. This allows us to scan a whole /16 subnet without overloading the UI or using a lot of RAM.
+
+### 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Fixed updater to only check for newer version using proper semver checking. Before it only checked if the current in use version was different than what was available.
 ## [0.1.0] - 2026-09-23

src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ping-async",
  "pulldown-cmark",
  "reqwest 0.12.28",
+ "semver",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tauri",

src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ open = "5.4.4"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
 libc = "0.2.189"
 pulldown-cmark = { version = "0.13.4", features = ["html"] }
+semver = "1.0.28"
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
 is_elevated = "0.1"

src-tauri/src/commands/updater.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use tauri::AppHandle;
 
-const UPDATE_URL: &str = "https://git.racooncity.org/api/v1/repos/mysticmomba/argus/releases/latest";
+const UPDATE_URL: &str =
+    "https://git.racooncity.org/api/v1/repos/mysticmomba/argus/releases/latest";
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct UpdateInfo {
@@ -29,10 +30,7 @@ pub async fn check_for_update(app: AppHandle) -> Result<Option<UpdateInfo>, Stri
         .as_str()
         .ok_or_else(|| "No tag_name in response".to_string())?;
 
-    let html_url = body["html_url"]
-        .as_str()
-        .unwrap_or("")
-        .to_string();
+    let html_url = body["html_url"].as_str().unwrap_or("").to_string();
 
     let notes = body["body"]
         .as_str()
@@ -42,7 +40,12 @@ pub async fn check_for_update(app: AppHandle) -> Result<Option<UpdateInfo>, Stri
     let remote_version = tag.strip_prefix('v').unwrap_or(tag);
     let current = app.package_info().version.to_string();
 
-    if remote_version != current {
+    let remote_semver = semver::Version::parse(remote_version)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Invalid remote version '{}': {}", remote_version, e))?;
+    let current_semver = semver::Version::parse(&current)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Invalid current version '{}': {}", current, e))?;
+
+    if remote_semver > current_semver {
         Ok(Some(UpdateInfo {
             version: remote_version.to_string(),
             url: html_url,
@@ -51,4 +54,4 @@ pub async fn check_for_update(app: AppHandle) -> Result<Option<UpdateInfo>, Stri
     } else {
         Ok(None)
     }
-}
+}

src/main.js

@@ -1097,7 +1097,6 @@ var updater = (() => {
     var msg = document.getElementById('update-message');
     var link = document.getElementById('update-link');
     var text = 'Argus v' + info.version + ' is available.';
-    if (info.notes) text += ' ' + info.notes;
     msg.textContent = text;
     link.href = info.url;
     link.addEventListener('click', function (e) {