Many programs crash or behave incorrectly if they are updated twice without restarting

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this is what the experimental.refresh-app-awareness system setting is for … it currently holds back updates for running apps and shows a desktop notification that you should stop the app for the upgrade to happen …

[WIP] Refresh App Awareness

This thread summaries an upcoming feature of snapd that is something many application developers were asking for a long while now. Internally we call it refresh-app-awareness because it means snapd is aware of running applications and will inhibit refreshes of snaps with apps running. The feature is smart enough to filter out services that are restarted during refresh. Current Status The feature is currently under development, coming to snapd 2.39 behind a feature flag, that is, it will require…