Updates

How Fruit Bat keeps itself up to date.

Installed copies of Fruit Bat update themselves on Windows, macOS and the Linux AppImage.

• About 15 seconds after it opens, and every 6 hours, Fruit Bat checks for a new version. A newer one downloads in the background and is checked against its published SHA-512 before it's used.
• A green Restart to update button appears in the toolbar. If you don't click it, the update installs the next time you quit.
• Settings › Language and updates has an Update automatically switch, Check for updates, and the update channel: Stable, or Beta for new versions before everyone else.
• The Linux .deb doesn't update itself: download the new version from fruitbat.app.
• The check only asks for the latest version number. Like any download, the server sees your IP address; nothing else is sent.