Patch shipped: v1.6.423 — 'sparkbox update' now offers the SparkBox upgrade too
Posted by tomspark
Small quality-of-life fix that closes a trap several of us have fallen into (me included): 'sparkbox update' only refreshes your apps' images — it never upgraded SparkBox itself. The warning about that was easy to scroll past, so people ran update, saw green checkmarks, and reasonably assumed they had the latest fixes when their box was actually still on an older release. Now, if you run 'sparkbox update' in a terminal and a newer SparkBox release exists, it asks right there: 'Upgrade SparkBox to vX.Y.Z now instead? [Y/n]' — hit Enter and you're on the latest. Scheduled and scripted runs are unchanged: they'll never upgrade your box without you saying so. If you've been seeing layout gaps on the dashboard this week, this is doubly relevant — run 'sudo sparkbox update' in a terminal, take the upgrade when offered, then hard-refresh your browser.