@m.dubrovin it seems that behavior is by design fix: desktop notifications not respecting privacy settings by abhinavkrin · Pull Request #36156 · RocketChat/Rocket.Chat · GitHub
I tend to disagree with the decision, because the desktop is not a real push so there is nothing related to privacy in this case actually. (the user receives the message and the “push” via websocket anyway) but in this case my opinion is not worth much
ps:
thats not true, upgrades between patches and minors are ok
the rule is: “you should not skip any major” (this is even more real for any version > 5)
5.x.x → 6.x.x → 6.x.x → …
But of course, if you want to find where the change was introduced, and you have the freedom to update frequently, the smaller the jump, the smaller the amount of changes, the fewer the surprises. But it’s not a rule and it’s not wrong if you dont do it that way.