How to update Freecad Versions

[Ave-5D]

OS: Windows 8.1
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13522 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-17
Hash: 3bb5ff4e70c0c526f2d9dd69b1004155b2f527f2
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: Afrikaans/SouthAfrica (af_ZA)

Please help, how do I keep my Freecad up to date? See the new release is 0.17.13528

Thank you

[bejant]

See here:

https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Download

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases

[Ave-5D]

Hi Benjant

I have been going to this upate section but uninstalled Freecad and reinstalled and I am sure there is a better way to update Freecad.
Please help

Thanks

[bejant]

I think there is no FreeCAD "updater" (<== for lack of a better word) with Windows I don't know if you have to uninstall your old 0.17 version before installing a newer version of 0.17, or if you can just install a newer 0.17 version over an older 0.17 version. I haven't used Windows for several years (since MS stopped supporting XP) so I'm not sure... someone else will have to offer advice.

[schupin]

Like Bejant, to my knowledge, there is now over way to update freecad.

You don't even need to uninstall the old version,
The good thing is that you can easily keep older version if you fail loading your old files into a new version.
(well, between 0.17.13522 and 0.17.13528, you should not have any version change issue. There are "almost" the same age)

[ironmuffin]

I still don't know how to update it. Can someone tell me what is the procedure for updating freecad in Ubuntu?
thanks!

[jmaustpc]

I still don't know how to update it. Can someone tell me what is the procedure for updating freecad in Ubuntu?
thanks!

Totally different question to the original as you are talking about Ubuntu and the original is talking about Windows.

On Linux you normally keep updated via the operating system's package manager tool.

On Ubuntu, you should have installed the daily ppa and then installed FreeCAD-Daily from that. Depending on which Ubuntu version there may be a older release version of FreeCAD in another ppa or it may be in the default repositories already a part of Ubuntu.

Read the wiki for details.

On Ubuntu use the ppa not the other Linux packaging systems.

[renatorivo]

You can see here https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Install_on_ ... ed_systems