https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163940

--- Comment #7 from David García <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #6)
> (In reply to David García from comment #5)
> > ...
> > I had LO 26.2.1 on my PC until a few minutes ago, when I decided to download
> > the installer for 26.2.2 and manually install it.
> > 
> > I've been waiting for a whole week for 26.2.2 to be delivered via 'Automatic
> > Update' (which I made sure is enabled), but it never happened and I really
> > wanted to take advantage of all the bugs fixed in the latest release. For a
> > feature called 'automatic', it takes a long time for the update to be
> > downloaded and installed. A few hours (or even a day) sounds reasonable to
> > me, but more than a week isn't practical and, in the future, I'll go back to
> > manual installations as I've done so far.
> 
> The MAR styled incremental updates are targeted builds released by the TDF
> LibreOffice infra team.  Controlled on your system by the 'Enable automatic
> update' checkbox on Tools -> Options -> Online Updates panel. Meanwhile,
> your system will poll the update server, but nothing will be pushed back to
> your system until the infra team triggers build the MAR packaging and
> patches are pushed out based on matching the build signature they are
> intended for.  An older install could receive multiple MAR patches in
> sequence.
> 
> That said, a MAR patch to move from 26.2.1 and 26.2.2 would not be generated
> yet. And probably no forced update until the 26.2.4.2 build is released
> (that is at discretion of the infra/release engineering team).
> 
> Probably best that to remain current, one should continue to grab the full
> MSI based installer packages and install the builds each month as they are
> published.
> 
> https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

Thank you for the thorough explanation.

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