Keep Recordstead up to date
Recordstead checks for offered builds automatically and installs a downloaded one when you next quit. Release notes describe what changed.
How a new build reaches you
Section titled “How a new build reaches you”The app checks at launch and every few hours while it runs. It can download an offered build in the background. When an update is ready, Restart to Update appears at the bottom of the main window's sidebar and in the menu bar panel. Click it to take the update now; otherwise installation waits until you quit. To hide a ready update, right-click the sidebar offer and choose Hide Until the Next Version. It disappears from the sidebar and the menu bar panel, and still installs when you quit.
Nothing checks, downloads or installs during a recording. An offer waits until the recording ends. After an update, the main window confirms it and offers What's New, which opens the release notes.
Check for one yourself
Section titled “Check for one yourself”Check for an update in Settings, including when automatic checks are off.
Turn it off, or turn part of it off
Section titled “Turn it off, or turn part of it off”Change automatic update settings to stop background checks or downloads without losing the manual check.
What an update keeps
Section titled “What an update keeps”Your meetings, settings, saved voices, trial and recording permissions remain. Recordstead does not offer a downgrade. An older build installed by hand may refuse an archive already written by a newer one rather than modify it.
In-app updates stay within the major version you have installed. A Personal license for version 1.x covers its 1.x updates; it does not activate another major version.
Which build you have
Section titled “Which build you have”Find the version you are running in the Software update section of Settings.