How to update plugdata on your Mac

1. Upgrade the Homebrew cask. If you installed plugdata with Homebrew, open Terminal and run brew upgrade --cask plugdata. Homebrew downloads the current build and replaces the app in your Applications folder.
2. Or download it from plugdata.org. Otherwise get the current build from plugdata.org, which is the same download Homebrew points at. Quit plugdata, open the download and put the new plugdata in Applications in place of the old one: a disk image is dragged across, an installer package runs its own steps. Your settings and documents live outside the app and are kept.

brew upgrade --cask plugdata

That is one app. The same walk, through a different menu or page each time, is what every other app on the Mac asks of you, which is where Floodtide comes in.

Floodtide's own signed catalog lists where plugdata's developer publishes each release, and Floodtide reads that source directly to learn which version is current. When yours is behind, the row appears under Updates with the version that is out, next to every other app on the Mac that is behind.

• The developer's own build is downloaded, with real progress.
• It is checked against a checksum where the source publishes one, otherwise against the developer signature of the copy already installed, and Gatekeeper has to accept it before anything is replaced.
• plugdata is asked to quit politely if it is open, and never forced.