Updates Articles
- Don’t Hide Version Numbers It breaks user expectations with no real benefit, and makes it hard to tell if you’ve actually gotten the latest security fix.
- Incremental Updates and the Problem of N+2 It’s one thing to provide an updater that goes from version N to version N+1. But what if someone doesn’t run the updater until N+2 is available? Or worse, N+3?
- Is the Xcode Updater Stuck? Watching install.log will show you whether the Xcode updater is still doing something or not.
- Java Lag vs. MacOS System Updates The MacBook mysteriously started lagging on Minecraft worlds that had run just fine the day before. It kept lagging until we manually installed the latest system update.
- Tell Me What Changed! When you release a new version of your software, tell me what’s new!
- Update Checks Should Be More Honest Software updaters have a bad habit of telling you they’re up-to-date before actually checking - and worse, telling you they’ve just confirmed it’s current when they actually couldn’t get an answer.