Check for Updates not finding Updates

[davidcockey]

@JimCarruthers

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

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.

@JimCarruthers

Also the “Update Frequency” selection box doesn’t show any options?

For non-WIP versions that box has options:

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.