# Update, and read what changed first

> Updates arrive signed. Read the notes before you install, and save your work first.

Status: Available · Level: Everyday · About 3 minutes · Canonical: https://paracrux.com/docs/update-the-app

## You need

- The app installed

## You'll come away with

- Know when the app checks for updates
- Read the notes before installing
- Install without losing work

## Step by step

1. **Let it check.** The app checks on launch and every four hours. When there is an update, it tells you: App update is available in Settings, General.
2. **Read what changed.** Open Settings, What's new. Versions are marked Installed or Available update. Notes for the installed version come with the app, so they work offline. The same notes are on the website's Release notes page.
3. **Save everything.** Save your editor, SOLIDWORKS and terminal work. The app closes to install.
4. **Install.** In Settings, General, App updates, choose Install update and restart. The app warns you if the editor has unsaved changes. The download is verified against its signature before it installs.
5. **If you change your mind.** Cancel, and your work stays open. If an install fails, your current version is still there.

## Walkthrough

Every message is the app's own wording. Version numbers are placeholders.

- **Agent:** App update X is available in Settings → General.
- Provenance: real-code

- **App updates:** Status = Version W · X is available.; Buttons = Install update and restart · Read X notes
- Provenance: real-code

- **Gate:** Install update and restart? Save any editor, SolidWorks and terminal work before continuing. The app will close and restart.
- Provenance: real-code

- **Agent:** Downloading and verifying the signed update…
- Provenance: real-code

## What it won't do

- There is no rollback. A fix arrives as a newer version.
- Updates come from one stable channel; there is no setting to choose another.
- The first installer does not yet carry a Windows publisher signature. Updates inside the app are signed and verified.
- If a version is withdrawn, the app tells you not to install it, or that your installed version has been withdrawn.

## Covers

- Install and update (Available): Download the Windows app; it checks for signed updates on launch and every four hours. Where: Download page; in the app, Settings → General
- Release notes (Available): Read what changed in each version, on the website or in the app before you update. Where: Release notes page; in the app, Settings → What's new

## Next

- [Get help from support](https://paracrux.com/docs/get-help.md): Open a request from your account or the app, choose what to attach, and follow replies. It works with or without an active subscription.