Hi Matthias, Andrea, all
> On January 31, 2019 at 11:08 PM Matthias Seidel <
> matthias.sei...@hamburg.de mailto:matthias.sei...@hamburg.de > wrote:
>
>
> Am 31.01.19 um 23:33 schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
>
> > > On 30/01/2019 Peter Kovacs wrote:
> >
> > > > > AFAIK Root cause is that the TLS connection
> > can not be established in
> > > Version 1.2 due to wrong version on client side.
> > > The Idea has been to lower security on server back to 1.1
> > > Version for
> > > now.
> > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > I confirm this is the conclusion we reached, but then we
> (at least I)
> > haven't find the time for following up properly.
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you Pedro for the reminder, let's see if time
> allows for taking
> > action (server-side) on this soon! But I think there is no code bug
> > to
> > address in this respect.
> >
> > >
Thank you for listening ;)
> In the past month I had about 2 weeks where AOO 4.1.6 on Ubuntu 16.04
> had a working connection to the update server. Now it is gone again... :-(
> So it is clearly no problem in our code in the first place.
>
It is even stranger that it works sometimes...
Clearly it has to be a change on the server side since the clients are not
changing (e.g. on a Windows XP machine) and checking for updates worked
previously
> Also the download statistics show me that a great number of users (from
> OOo 3.2 to AOO 4.1.5) have gotten the update notification and did update
> via this channel.
>
Can you determine from which OS? I can't get it to work on any Windows version
but Andrea mentioned that the update worked on some Linux distros (but not on
Ubuntu)
>
> > > For sure not for 4.2.0-beta where updates would be
> disabled anyway.
> >
> > > I really see no reason for that... At least this was only a
> > suggestion
> from Marcus and hasn't been discussed further.
>
> At the moment Beta builds for 4.2.0 point to
> https://ooo-updates.apache.org/aoonextbeta/check.Update.
> This is an empty feed just enough to respond "OpenOffice Beta 4.2.0 is
> up to date." and it is already working. [1]
>
I don't see any reason to disable it... Even if a user forgets to remove the
beta and then is notified that a new full version is available, after install
all outdated files will be overwritten...
Regards,
Pedro
