Unable to connect to update server?

[snow]

When I try to check for updates Audacity tells me it couldn’t connect to the update server. Any idea how to fix this? I clearly have a working internect connection and other downloads and updates work just fine. I just downloaded it again and reinstalled but the problem persists. Using Win11 Home in its latest default channel version. It identifies as some kind of runtime error:

{
“timestamp”: 1774268030,
“event_id”: “8b56619c5a9ca548b6e22927d8d9b658”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.7.7”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.26200”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error_checking_for_update”,
“value”: “Unable to connect to Audacity update server.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}
}

[steve]

It’s rather academic at the moment because 3.7.7 is the latest version. You should be seeing a message saying “No Updates Available”.

[romontschun]

Audacity 3.6.4 tells me that version 3.7.7 is availableif I manually select “check for updates…” in the “Help” menu. Or if you have enabled the automatic notification about new versions in the “Preferences” pane under "Application. Of course I now select “Skip” because I am happy with 3.6.4.

When the update server is not found, the problem is somewhere at your end.

[snow]

I know it’s the latest version right now but it means I can’t just check for updates easily and have to check the site instead. It worked previously, I wonder what changed.

[snow]

Judging from the error blurb it is a runtime issue but sadly won’t tell me what runtime.