Updates
How FEWD tells you about a new version, what it downloads, and what it will never do on its own.
FEWD Studio checks for new versions and can install them itself.
What happens
A notice appears when there is a newer version, with What’s new beside it.
Update downloads it, with a progress bar — a hundred megabytes arriving behind a button that looks frozen is not an improvement on a link to GitHub.
Install and restart installs it, when you say so.
Security updates
Release notes mark a security update, and name the minimum safe version where one applies. Security improvements are made over time, so keep FEWD Studio up to date. See Security in FEWD Studio.
What it will not do
Nothing downloads on its own. Nothing installs on its own. Nothing restarts while you are working.
On Windows an update fetches only the parts that changed rather than the whole installer.
Turning it off
Preferences → Functionality → Check for updates.
With it off, new versions come from the releases page like any other download.
Version history
Every release is listed with what changed on the FEWD Studio changelog.
A note on 1.9.2
The in-app updater shipped in 1.9.2, and the first build containing it cannot update itself into existence — 1.9.2 had to be installed by hand.
1.9.2’s own update feed also pointed at filenames that did not exist, so anyone on an earlier version who was offered it got a download that failed. 1.9.3 fixes it, and 1.9.2 needed no re-cut: an older build reads the newest release’s manifest, so 1.9.3’s corrected feed repairs the path for everybody still on an earlier version.
A check now runs as part of every build — it reads every URL out of the update manifest and fails the build if the file it names is not sitting beside it — so this particular fault cannot ship again.
If you are on 1.9.1 or earlier and an update has failed to download, take the current version once from the releases page. Updates work normally from then on.