# Check for Updates not finding Updates

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/check-for-updates-not-finding-updates/216346>\
**Category:** Serengeti (Rhino BETA)\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [February 25, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/check-for-updates-not-finding-updates/216346 "2026-02-25T12:05:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JimCarruthers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jimcarruthers/32/504725_2.png) [@JimCarruthers](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/JimCarruthers)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/check-for-updates-not-finding-updates/216346/1 "2026-02-25T12:05:42Z")

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The “Updates and Statistics” tab claims my Rhino WIP is up-to-date this morning when that’s definitely not the case. Also the “Update Frequency” selection box doesn’t show any options?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/a/7/d/a7dfa2b95c1c1c31fd69ec8f834a7c5991bd8a2e.png)

Question/observation…so after closing Rhino after taking that screenshot to manually install the update, it asked if I wanted to install the update. I had just manually downloaded it using the “Check now…” link…does Rhino find that manual download or did it grab it separately?

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**Author:** ![jeremy5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jeremy5/32/493741_2.png) [@jeremy5](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/jeremy5)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/check-for-updates-not-finding-updates/216346/2 "2026-02-25T14:05:59Z")

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I _suspect_ the checking process is somewhat asyncronous and the “up to date” message appears because Rhino has not yet actually checked. I _think_ McNeel want to spread demand through the day to avoid peak overloads. The “Check now” feature forces an immediate check.

The immediate automatic download and update offer feature after Check now finds a new release is, I think, something new and welcome.

(Although I have always prefered Check now and a manual download to the automated check because it means I have old versions available in my downloads folder should I ever need to revert.)

The Update Frequency setting is not applied to the WIP because it is equivalent to a SRC.

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**Author:** ![JimCarruthers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jimcarruthers/32/504725_2.png) [@JimCarruthers](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/JimCarruthers)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/check-for-updates-not-finding-updates/216346/3 "2026-02-25T14:09:27Z")

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> [@jeremy5](#):
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> I _suspect_ the checking process is somewhat asyncronous and the “up to date” message appears because Rhino has not yet actually checked. I _think_ McNeel want to spread demand through the day to avoid peak overloads. The “Check now” feature forces an immediate check.

Maybe? It says it “last checked” 1 minute before I hit “Check now” to get the latest that I knew had been out for over 12 hours, and this seems to be the pattern of late.

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**Author:** ![davidcockey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/davidcockey/32/732604_2.png) [@davidcockey](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/davidcockey)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/check-for-updates-not-finding-updates/216346/4 "2026-02-25T16:00:27Z")

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> [@JimCarruthers](#):
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> The “Updates and Statistics” tab claims my Rhino WIP is up-to-date this morning when that’s definitely not the case.

That is how it is intended to work according to @brian in 2017.

> [@Update check not right working](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/update-check-not-right-working/49931/12):
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> The update system uses an external process to check for updates, and that process takes time to complete. While it seems like it would be simple to just ping the update server and get an answer back “right now”, it doesn’t work that way - especially on networks behind proxy servers. In order to prevent the update system from flooding our servers with requests, it prevents itself from hitting our servers every time Rhino asks. Instead, if Rhino asked within the last hour (or day, for commercial …

Click on “Check now” for the current status.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/1/b/e/1beb81cee4572c54b5cfa0c8b57944ff6abdf112.png)

> [@JimCarruthers](#):
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> Also the “Update Frequency” selection box doesn’t show any options?

For non-WIP versions that box has options:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/2/0/5/205b399c3050824720077f14881f01a79d2d0248.png)  
For the WIP there is only one option, the latest “weekly” version of the WIP. I assume that is the reason for no options in the menu.