Oddity with notification of 'update available' event
I've just noticed that the 'update now available' event in IDEA (*) seems somewhat out of date, i.e. it does not show the very latest available.
At the moment I don't use IDEA a lot but when I loaded it today (2019-06-11) it said there was a new version 2018.2.8 and yet we are in June 2019 and so I checked on the web site and found a 2019 version is the latest and so I downloaded that.
Perhaps because I hadn't updated to a 2019 version already it searched for the latest 2018 but it seems odd; I certainly updated the licence for IDEA in January when I renewed the licence
I have the Toolkit licence and use mainly Pycharm and Webstorm but used to use IDEA a lot for Java/Griffon/Grails
* In fact the same is true with PyCharm and I have been using that a lot more regularly in past months; when I loaded it just now it advised me of a 2018.n.n version available (I downloaded/updated via the patch file) but on the web site I see a 2019 version available.
With my licence being up to date I can see no reason for the software not to select the very latest released version when it checks for what is available. Admittedly it is rare for my work to be held up because I'm waiting for a bug fix in the latest version but it would seem to be better to use the latest version if it is available.
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The update policies are configured in Preferences | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates. See Update IntelliJ IDEA. What options do you have set there? Do you use Toolbox App? Do you have any Ignored Updates set there?
Firstly I'm still running 2018.2.2 (ultimate), I have downloaded the 2019 version but not installed it.
There is no 'preferences' on the menu bar nor any sub-menu entry; however there is a File->Settings ->Appearance&Behaviour->System Settings but that has nothing to do with the processing of updates.
I certainly have never changed any such setting...I tend to simply leave the defaults as they are and while I do use 'remind me later' quite often I cannot recall ever using 'ignore this update' and certainly not in recent months.
Interestingly PyCharm 2018.1 does have an 'updates' in the location I mentioned above and the first line:
Automatically check updates for ... Stable releases
is actually not ticked but as I mentioned above I have not changed this setting at any time. In Pycharm there are no ignored updates
So do the PyCharm settings overlap with the IDEA ones ? And should the setting I mention be ticked ? (presumably it should be)
This is screenshot from IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 version:
There should be updates under System Settings node. Please attach screenshot of it.
I do apologise - I must have missed it in IDEA (I did say it was there in PyCharm), I hadn't seen it before today and certainly have not changed it...
Thank you for the information. This is the expected behaviour: IDE provides update to the newest major version available for the current IDE version. It is not necessary that user would always want to update to the latest version from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download