fix(update): correctly report new updates (#4821)

Co-authored-by: gemini-code-assist[bot] <176961590+gemini-code-assist[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Richman <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts
index b0a0de1b..2fe5df39 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import updateNotifier, { UpdateInfo } from 'update-notifier';
 import semver from 'semver';
 import { getPackageJson } from '../../utils/package.js';
 
+export const FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 2000;
+
 export interface UpdateObject {
   message: string;
   update: UpdateInfo;
@@ -34,8 +36,11 @@ export async function checkForUpdates(): Promise<UpdateObject | null> {
       // allow notifier to run in scripts
       shouldNotifyInNpmScript: true,
     });
-
-    const updateInfo = await notifier.fetchInfo();
+    // avoid blocking by waiting at most FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS for fetchInfo to resolve
+    const timeout = new Promise<null>((resolve) =>
+      setTimeout(resolve, FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS, null),
+    );
+    const updateInfo = await Promise.race([notifier.fetchInfo(), timeout]);
 
     if (updateInfo && semver.gt(updateInfo.latest, updateInfo.current)) {
       return {