feat: allow advertising a fake version to clients (#2228)

* feat: allow advertising a fake version to clients

The server usually runs unstable Atuin, and is well monitored. But let's
not advertised the unstable version to clients, as they will notify
users there is an update available.

* fix test build

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/crates/atuin-server/src/handlers/mod.rs b/crates/atuin-server/src/handlers/mod.rs
index 50f82336..ce10f4b7 100644
--- a/crates/atuin-server/src/handlers/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/atuin-server/src/handlers/mod.rs
@@ -19,10 +19,16 @@ pub async fn index<DB: Database>(state: State<AppState<DB>>) -> Json<IndexRespon
     // It's super unlikely this will happen
     let count = state.database.total_history().await.unwrap_or(-1);
 
+    let version = state
+        .settings
+        .fake_version
+        .clone()
+        .unwrap_or(VERSION.to_string());
+
     Json(IndexResponse {
         homage: homage.to_string(),
-        version: VERSION.to_string(),
         total_history: count,
+        version,
     })
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/atuin-server/src/settings.rs b/crates/atuin-server/src/settings.rs
index dfe238d6..c62c65b8 100644
--- a/crates/atuin-server/src/settings.rs
+++ b/crates/atuin-server/src/settings.rs
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ pub struct Settings<DbSettings> {
     pub tls: Tls,
     pub mail: Mail,
 
+    /// Advertise a version that is not what we are _actually_ running
+    /// Many clients compare their version with api.atuin.sh, and if they differ, notify the user
+    /// that an update is available.
+    /// Now that we take beta releases, we should be able to advertise a different version to avoid
+    /// notifying users when the server runs something that is not a stable release.
+    pub fake_version: Option<String>,
+
     #[serde(flatten)]
     pub db_settings: DbSettings,
 }