Autoupdate blender
This would be another version of Blender called maybe 'Blender Insiders'. This would allow you to have an updated blender to play with the new features and the traditional stable Blender for production that must be updated manually.
How do I know that many users are not interested in having blender updates because maybe they are in production and do not want Blender to be updated automatically.
My proposal is that there is a version as in Visual Studio Code Insider that is updated to the latest version of Blender, and we avoid having to download it manually.
Other people said that it is useful for users to download from the site to see blender's sponsors. The solution is to put the sponsors in the splash for this version.
It also opens in text editor with the main updates. Come on we are in 2018 all the software is updated automatically.
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github.com/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdater
@Bo Shi: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, great would have to show this to Blender to place this program on the official download page. Could you put checkbox to run automatically without having to click the New version available button? If you can do that, it's just perfect. THANK YOU VERY MUCH OVERMIND STUDIOS
the user should be in charge of when to update, a notification for new versions might be nice but automatic updates are a nogo especially in production environments where the users need to be in charge of which version to use. imagine the scenario where you get an update and some things are broken that you will need to work with and now you need to roll back to an earlier version but as soon as you start that it will update again to the broken version and you will not be able to reach your deadline unless you pull the network cable....
if you want autoudpates you could use steam which actually does auto update blender.