Updates
Kubermeister updates itself from its GitHub releases.
Set in Settings → Updates:
- Download (the default) — a found release is downloaded in the background and installed when you quit.
- Check — you are told a release exists and decide when to download it.
- Off — no scheduled checks.
The default is download on purpose. The app releases often, installs on quit, and an announcement
waiting on a click is a fix that never lands.
Nothing is downloaded before the mode is read, so choosing check or off genuinely prevents the
download rather than merely hiding it.
Scheduling
Section titled “Scheduling”Checks run every 4 hours by default, starting a few seconds after launch. Changing the interval reschedules from now; saving any other setting never pushes the next check out.
A failed scheduled check is recorded quietly and never surfaces as a notification. You find out when you go looking.
Where you see it
Section titled “Where you see it”- A pill in the top bar, with a popover and a one-shot toast when the state changes.
- The About card in Settings.
- The command palette can run a check.
- Check for Updates… in the application menu, which uses native dialogs rather than the interface. That matters: the pill and Settings only exist once the window has finished loading, and an update found while a blank screen keeps that from happening still needs a way in.
Release notes
Section titled “Release notes”The app shows none. Generated release notes are a list of pull-request titles, dozens of lines with an author and a URL on each — so the app gives the version and its date and links to the release page, and the native dialog offers a Release Notes button.
What a release actually changed for you is in the changelog, which is written by hand.