You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.219,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The stale-daemon retire decision and the generic version-newer comparison now understand prerelease channels, so an -engine. build is no longer compared as if it were stable.
Details
A version's prerelease channel is extracted before comparison; the recognized channels are ["dev", "engine"].
If the two versions carry different channels, neither is treated as newer than the other.
If either side is a prerelease and both cannot be parsed as dated builds, the comparison returns false.
Previously the check only special-cased the substring -dev..
Evidence
daemonVersion
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
