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LocalDocks

Updating

Install the newer build over the older one. Settings survive, and there is no in-app updater to configure.

How to update

  1. Download the newer installer from GitHub Releases.
  2. Verify its SHA-256 against the release page.
  3. Close LocalDocks if it is running.
  4. Run the installer. It replaces the existing per-user installation in place.

There is no need to uninstall first. Downgrades are blocked by the installer, so moving to an older build means uninstalling the newer one first.

What happens to your settings

Theme, sampler interval and Developer/System mode live in the application’s local storage under your user profile. An upgrade does not touch them, and neither does an uninstall — so reinstalling restores the state you left.

To reset to defaults, uninstall and then delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\com.silentminds.localdocks before reinstalling.

There is no in-app updater

V1 does not check for updates, does not phone home and has no network client at all. That is the same promise the Settings screen makes about privacy, and an updater is exactly the kind of thing that would quietly break it.

Reading a version number

The running version is shown in the title bar and in the Settings About card, read from the application at runtime rather than hard-coded into the interface. It matches the installer filename, the executable metadata and the Windows uninstall entry, because all four come from one source.

The current build is 0.9.0. A Windows package version must be plain numeric, so a pre-release marker cannot live in the number — it lives in the git tag and the release flag instead, and the package version stays honest about the product not having shipped a 1.0 yet.

Microsoft Store updates

Not applicable. LocalDocks is not distributed through the Microsoft Store — see Download for why.