Hostage situation - Upgrade or loose access to your installation?

[stoccafisso]

Anyone know what this is about?

Got notified I needed to upgrade my rocket.chat installation, or loose access to it.

Thats crazy. What if I want to archive an installation for record keeping and history, and suddenly when I need access to it I can not, as someone "out there" has decided I can not have access to my own installation. Pure insanity.

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A Workspace version unsupported

Desktop and mobile app access to https://chat.dnfi.no/ will be cut off in 13 day(s).

This workspace is running an unsupported version of Rocket.Chat. Your workspace admin
needs to update to at least v7.10.0 to prevent cutoff.

[james]

Hello @stoccafisso
It looks like you are using an outdated version of RocketChat from before https://forum.cloudron.io/post/112416.
So you should update your RocketChat.

Also, the message states that that desktop and mobile access will be lost but not the web browser access I assume.
Maybe this is due to some upstream changes in the desktop and mobile client no longer supporting the old version?

[stoccafisso]

@james thanks for your response. Yes, I was at an outdated verison, for some strange reason automatic update did not work, even if it was configured for automatic updates.

Maybe you are correct, that web browser access will still be possible for outdated versions, but did not get to verify this as I upgraded manally to secure continued access. But still a scary message, it could have been communicated clearer by the devs.

Sorry about my rant. Just delete it, as it does probably not help anyone here.

[james]

Hello @stoccafisso
It still could be of help.
There might be other people with outdated RocketChat who will search for this exact message.