Update Ancestris (SM)

The Ancestris team constantly works on improving Ancestris software.

Situations depending on your version

In case you use Main version 10

When we discover bugs that could impact your use of the Main version, we fix them and the update becomes available to you according to the instructions below.

These updates are very rare.

In case you use daily version 11

Regarding the daily version, updates happen daily !

Minor updates

Most of the time, these updates are evolutions or new functionalities.

These updates are available to you and happen on a regular basis.

You can benefit from them according to the description below.

Structural updates

On rare occurrences, certain Ancestris updates of daily version 11 happen in the core platform of Ancestris.

These changes can be a simple menu translation or something major.

To fully benefit from those, you have to reinstall Ancestris.

Please follow the reinstallation instructions in this case.

 

Automatic updates

You will receive an automatic notification for updates to the version currently in use.

When Ancestris starts, a small window will open at the lower right corner, indicating the number of available updates.

Just click the window and follow the steps. If you miss this window, a little icon will remain for you to click on.

Ancestris will then offer to restart.

Proactive updates

It is also possible to retrieve updates at any time.

Just choose Options / Update Ancestris from the main menu bar.

A window will open and give you further instructions on how to proceed.

As before, if there are updates, Ancestris will offer to restart.

Special cases

Certain Ancestris updates are not proposed this way. Those are the structural updates. Those can be a simple menu translation or something really big.

To benefit from those, you have to reinstall Ancestris.

We recommend you follow the reinstallation procedures.