Is support for custom channels dropped?

[SoumyaRanjanPatnaik]

Environment Details

• Electron-Builder Version:

• Node Version: 18

• Electron Version: 24.4.0
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

• Target: windows, linux, macos

Description

I'm trying to setup ci for one of the applications I'm working on. We have 4 branches -> development, demo, internal, main and want my binaries to use a different channel for each branch. I found this in the documentation.

Set your version in your application package.json to 1.9.0-snapshot (or 1.9.0-master or whatever you want your development channel to be named).

This suggests that we can use any set of channel names, and it should work, but it doesn't.

In my case, I've set the package.json version to v2.0.0-development. The generated binary is always Appname-2.0.0-latest.AppImage (I've set my artefact name manually to include the channel name).

What I've tried

• setting "generateUpdatesFilesForAllChannels": true
• using c.publish.channel=development flag causes this issue:

  configuration.publish.channel should be one of these:
    "alpha" | "beta" | "dev" | "rc" | "stable" | null
  

• Also tried using a combination of both

I also found this comment on one of the issues explaining the usage of channels. Tried to find an issue that tries something like this but there were none.

[k2s]

Try to use dev instead of development. Names of the channels are given https://www.electron.build/tutorials/release-using-channels.

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