Blender LTS Updater Addon or built-in Feature
Blender LTS 2.83.1 already release today...yeay 🎉🎉🎉
For updater, I've stumble some great project like
- github.com/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdater
- github.com/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdaterCLI
- <del> github.com/DotBow/Blender-Version-Manager </del>
- github.com/DotBow/Blender-Launcher
So, maybe if there would be an artist-friendly way for updating blender from the blender itself. So like the artist/user can enable the addon and choose which version to follow, and maybe a button to check for update or maybe the user can define themselves for update interval (daily, weekly, on startup).
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Be aware that DotBow's Blender Version Manager is deprecated and is replaced by its Blender Launcher . Which is awesome!
* @-L0Lock- * Now that you mention it, I thought this was what we were talking about but I clearly missed something!
In my opinion, this is fine outside of Blender, seeing as you'd need to restart blender anyway to update it. Also, this awesome tool can open on startup, which is not something I want by default in Blender. If anything, I want to see this guy's tool made official and expanded to have more API features like GraphicsAll, blendmarket and a dedicated unoficial addon list. It needs funding and support.
Maybe a button in Blender could create a bridge between these tools... Dalai mentioned this today in Blender today. He said he's only really thinking about having a prompt to detect whether there's a new version to download. That could then link directly with the external manager.
* @simon.p.heggie * Glad to hear Dalai has this in mind, yes API to link with release page, builder and graphicall build would be awesome.
* @Aditia A. Pratama * Although, in terms of the link between his idea and the external program I don't know what his plans are. I think the author of this external program might be a good candidate to help if Dalai has his hands full.
* @simon.p.heggie * I personally use DotBow's Blender Launcher (updated version of it Blender Version Manager). It supports stable builds, daily builds, experimental branches and custom-builds (though these are entirely managed by the user).
I like it a lot because it runs on startup with just an icon in the system tray, and I can set a default build to launch on a double click on the icon, as well as open the window with a simple click to run another specific build. It's fast and not intrusive.