Updates

Run flatpak update as you would for any Flatpak app, or let your software centre do it:

flatpak --user update

How new versions arrive

FlatPark watches each app’s official releases. Many developers notify FlatPark the moment they publish, and the rest are checked twice a day. A new version is re-pinned, checked to install, and published, usually within minutes to hours of the release; no one has to approve each one.

What you download on update is the developer’s own new release: Flatpak fetches it from their servers and unpacks it on your computer, as it did on install.

Runtimes move together

Every app uses the current version of its runtime (the shared base that Flatpak apps are built on). When a new version of the runtime comes out, the whole catalog moves to it at once and is tested together, so you never keep an old runtime on disk for one app that stayed behind. After such a move, flatpak update downloads the new runtime once, and flatpak uninstall --unused removes the old one (cleaning up).