Better migration of update checking settings, offer reload, strip backend_setting from db

src/documents/serialisers.py

@@ -608,6 +608,15 @@ class UiSettingsViewSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
             "settings",
         ]
 
+    def validate_settings(self, settings):
+        # we never save update checking backend setting
+        if "update_checking" in settings:
+            try:
+                settings["update_checking"].pop("backend_setting")
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
+        return settings
+
     def create(self, validated_data):
         ui_settings = UiSettings.objects.update_or_create(
             user=validated_data.get("user"),

src/documents/views.py

@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ class UiSettingsView(GenericAPIView):
         ui_settings = {}
         if hasattr(user, "ui_settings"):
             ui_settings = user.ui_settings.settings
-        if ui_settings["update_checking"]:
+        if "update_checking" in ui_settings:
             ui_settings["update_checking"][
                 "backend_setting"
             ] = settings.ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK