Beta #13 of 2022 is now available 🍀

May I ask why?

I’ll give you a few of my personal reasons.

1. I want to read the release notes first, to know what known issues or limitations might be present in the update

2. I want to control when the update occurs, not have it control my work. Too many update frameworks yank the screen and focus away from me, 1Password’s being one of the most egregious offenders. Not only does it steal the screen / focus, it does so twice. Software should never do this.

3. I want to know when updates are available, so I can apply them uniformly across our systems. Auto-updates often have phased rollouts, and this means our systems will have different software versions sometimes for days or weeks.

4. Auto-updates generally have no awareness of when it is unacceptable to run. This is a larger issue than (2) above, and can be a huge problem when reboots are automatically performed, or the software terminates and restarts itself.

Auto updating is good for home users, who would otherwise never perform updates. For the rest of us, not so much. Too many times bitten by overzealous software-updaters or indifferent company practices wrt users.