From a7f16d8cf83fa3434ffee5908431c51d9722267e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xRangerDE <xRangerDE@24-music.de>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 06:21:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] observability: auto-updater lifecycle events go through
 appendDebugLog, not console.log
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Four autoUpdater event handlers (checking-for-update, update-available, update-not-available, update-downloaded) were logging via raw console.log while the sibling 'error' handler already used appendDebugLog. Two consequences:

1. In a packaged build the user has no visible record of the update lifecycle — console.log streams to stderr which is invisible without DevTools. appendDebugLog writes to the timestamped debug log file that the user can inspect via the Live Debug-Log card in Settings.

2. Inconsistent — the existing 'auto-updater-error' tag in line 6479 was the only update-related event reaching the debug log. New tags ('auto-updater-checking', 'auto-updater-update-available', 'auto-updater-update-not-available', 'auto-updater-update-downloaded') give the full lifecycle a coherent grep-friendly prefix in the log.

The version info that was being printed inline ("Update available: 4.7.0") now lives in the structured details payload instead of a free-form message — easier to parse mechanically and matches the rest of the codebase's debug-log conventions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/main.ts | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index 35d3a4d..925840c 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -6392,7 +6392,7 @@ function setupAutoUpdater() {
     autoUpdater.autoRunAppAfterInstall = true;
 
     autoUpdater.on('checking-for-update', () => {
-        console.log('Checking for updates...');
+        appendDebugLog('auto-updater-checking');
         mainWindow?.webContents.send('update-checking');
     });
 
@@ -6416,7 +6416,7 @@ function setupAutoUpdater() {
             compareUpdateVersions(downloadedUpdateVersion, incomingVersion) === 0
         );
 
-        console.log('Update available:', displayVersion);
+        appendDebugLog('auto-updater-update-available', { version: displayVersion });
         if (!hasAlreadyDownloadedThisVersion) {
             autoUpdateReadyToInstall = false;
         }
@@ -6440,7 +6440,7 @@ function setupAutoUpdater() {
     });
 
     autoUpdater.on('update-not-available', () => {
-        console.log('No updates available');
+        appendDebugLog('auto-updater-update-not-available');
         mainWindow?.webContents.send('update-not-available');
     });
 
@@ -6460,7 +6460,7 @@ function setupAutoUpdater() {
 
     autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', (info) => {
         const downloadedVersion = normalizeUpdateVersion(info.version) || info.version;
-        console.log('Update downloaded:', downloadedVersion);
+        appendDebugLog('auto-updater-update-downloaded', { version: downloadedVersion });
         autoUpdateReadyToInstall = true;
         autoUpdateDownloadInProgress = false;
         downloadedUpdateVersion = downloadedVersion;