Need to download the prev version when there's critical bug after updated

[fai-chan]

hi, is there any way to download the second most recent version of the Freebuff GUI client? 22 Oct one is fine and I want to switch back atm.
https://github.com/CodebuffAI/codebuff-community/releases/ stopped updating since early Sept
official site has only the latest version

[dgesteves]

The old desktop builds are still on GitHub. They're published as pre-releases in codebuff-community under freebuff-desktop-v* tags, and the releases page orders them by tag name, so freebuff-desktop-v0.0.99 (9 Sept) sorts above v0.0.188 and it looks like nothing came out after early September.

Two builds went out on 22 Oct:

• freebuff-desktop-v0.0.186
• freebuff-desktop-v0.0.188

Each has installers for every platform, e.g. Freebuff-0.0.188-win-x64.exe (or -win-x64-baseline.exe if that's the one you had), Freebuff-0.0.188-mac-arm64.dmg, Freebuff-0.0.188-linux-amd64.deb. After those came 0.0.190 (23 Oct), 0.0.192 (26 Oct), 0.0.194 (29 Oct, "Rebuilt on a hybrid web interface and cloud runner") and 0.0.195 (30 Oct).

Turn off the update check before you start the old version, or it can pull the newer one straight back: it checks at launch and every two hours, starts downloading right away and installs on quit. The 0.0.188 build skips all automatic checks when the FREEBUFF_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK environment variable is set (the updater in the app bundle reads it at startup):

# Windows (cmd or PowerShell), then fully quit and reopen Freebuff
setx FREEBUFF_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK 1

# macOS, lasts until reboot
launchctl setenv FREEBUFF_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK 1

# Linux
FREEBUFF_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=1 /opt/Freebuff/freebuff

"Check for Updates…" in the menu still works when you want to move forward again.

I unpacked the 0.0.188 Linux .deb from that release and read the updater code inside app.asar; I didn't run the installers.