Disable pre-release/update notifications through an environment variable

[jflambert]

I want to be able to immediately "opt-out" (as it's called in 1.1.0) from pre-release notifications, as well as any upgrade notification, through an environment variable similar to HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_TELEMETRY. Basically I don't want to see the popups in the console.

I don't think one exists.

[rikinsk]

This can be solved in 2 ways:

The console can allow users to opt-out of all notifications. The notification will be shown once after which it wont be shown again for that db instance.

The server can take an ENV variable as suggested here and pass it to the console. The notification will never be shown.

Leaving this issue open for the server based solution. Created #4165 for the console only solution

[jflambert]

@rikinsk I'd really prefer an env var ;) but thanks

[jflambert]

I'm waiting for confirmation from a team mate but I was told that Hasura will crash hard when it runs in an offline environment -- because it tries to contact github.com to check for an update?

Which makes this issue even more important to fix IMHO.