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.
• 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.

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