Possible to update to a GitHub release marked pre-release?

[eanders-ms]

• Version: 19.2.7

• Target: windows/nsis

Hello, I would like to be able to selectively allow updates to new releases on GitHub marked pre-release (enable by passing a flag on the command line). Is this possible with electron-builder's autoUpdater? This will allow us to test the auto-update process to a new release before making it generally available. The process of making it generally available would be to simply remove the pre-release flag.

[brandonmp]

I don't know much about this issue since I use s3 for publishing, but i saw this in the docs--is it helpful?

allowPrerelease = false Boolean - GitHub provider only. Whether to allow update to pre-release versions. Defaults to true if application version contains prerelease components (e.g. 0.12.1-alpha.1, here alpha is a prerelease component), otherwise false.

[eanders-ms]

Huh, I was trying that the other day and it wasn't working for me. But today it works as you describe. Probably user error. Will try to get a repro if I see it again.
Thanks!