Desktop updater loses active profile and config settings
Cluster 64160 · apps/desktop. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #100514 on 1 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #100514. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #100514. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These items address a bug where the desktop updater drops the active-profile preference and config model settings, with related fixes targeting migration of legacy signals and preservation of those settings across updates.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#100514 fix(desktop/update): preserve active profile and config model settings across updates
files:
apps/desktop/electron/main.ts,apps/desktop/electron/profile-migration.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/profile-migration.ts,hermes_cli/backup.py,hermes_cli/update_cmd.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_backup.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: done elsewhere 1
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#64195 fix(desktop): migrate active profile preference from legacy signals on first boot · done elsewhere →
4980a5c,#100514,#64160
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#64160[Bug]: Desktop updater drops active-profile preference and rewrites config model settings
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- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #100514
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 1 Sep 2026