H5s also allows you to see the list of updates that will be applied when you synchronize. You will be able to see a simple one-line tag that gives you the gist of the delta, and also will flag whether an update is critical.
A Whenever-green Application
To be precise, a pure evergreen application updates itself whenever a new delta becomes available (at the application exit thereafter). Given that H5s allows you to update whenever you're ready, it might better be termed a "whenever-green" app. To this end, you can see where your installed copy is relative to the evergreen version using the updates command from the main menu.
- If up-to-date, no action is required.1
- If not, info on the latest release and how many deltas must be applied is given.2
If the scanner is out-of-date, the status window gives you the following info. Up to five back releases are shown, with intermediate releases elided if your current version is more than 5 releases old.
- Semantic version number and release date of currently running version 3
- Version number and release date of the most recent release downloaded.4
- HDF5 release used in the scanner.5
- Number of releases to be applied when syncing the current version to the latest.6
- A list of the releases due to be applied, each containing a tag line highlighting the improvements/fixes found in the release.7
Then Synchronize on Exit...
The latest release is the one shown in exit-and-sync command. There is no option to sync to an intermediate release.
