Support downgrading the App
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Description
Feature summary
Support downgrading the App
What problem are you trying to solve?
Currently if you upgrade and something does not work anymore (had that this week) there is no way to downgrade the App and continue. The session database schema gets updated and has a minimum version it supports, and if you just upgraded, there is no way to go back, and you are effectively blocked from using the feature that is broken, until someone reports it and it gets fixed.
Proposed solution
Support a downgrade option either through a CLI command or in the App itself, to allow people to revert and choose when a newer update is allowed.
Workflow impact
Currently blocked for days on an issue that got broken this week (#3753)
Installation context
Windows
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the session database schema and its minimum supported version, then read issue #3753 for the reported upgrade failure. Determine how a CLI or in-app downgrade flow would let Windows users return to a usable app version without blocking their session. Done means users can deliberately revert after an upgrade and continue working.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100