The notification message added to an update center seem to be shown to the user only if there are also additional modules to be updated. This notification shall actually notify users about new major releases. Because this notification is missing people often use an old version.
A property has been introduced which defines how often SNAP shall check for new releases. snap.versionCheck.interval It can have one of the following values: ON_START, DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, NEVER. This can also be changed in the options dialog.
Marco Peters
17 January 2017 at 10:53
Easiest solution is probably to add a similar up-to-date test which we had in BEAM. This test checked regularly a file on the server for the most recent version. And notified the user about a new release if there is one.
The notification message added to an update center seem to be shown to the user only if there are also additional modules to be updated.
This notification shall actually notify users about new major releases.
Because this notification is missing people often use an old version.