keeping solstone up to date
running the current version fixes a surprising number of issues, and it's the first thing worth ruling out.
check your version
open about in your journal's settings (or run journal about; on a journal older than 2.0.30, run journal --version) to see your version, then compare it against the latest release. finding your version shows where about is on each app. if you're a version or two behind, the update may already contain your fix.
one number, everywhere: since 1.0.12 the journal reports the same version whether you installed it yourself or run the journal on your mac. the two used to count releases separately, which is why the number jumped from 0.9.x to 1.0.x. nothing was skipped. the solstone app on your mac still keeps its own version number.
update the journal
if you installed the journal using the install command from the install page (on linux or mac), one command updates it in place:
curl -fsSL https://solstone.app/install.sh | sh -s -- --upgradethis keeps the release lane you're already on, checks the signed release before installing it, and keeps your journal running through the update without you having to stop or restart anything yourself.
if you installed the linux .deb or .rpm package instead, download the newer package from the install page, install it the same way you did the first time (sudo apt install ./solstone-journal-<version>-linux-<arch>.deb, or the matching dnf command), then run:
journal setuponly using solstone to talk to a journal on another machine, with no journal running here? the same install covers that too, so the command above is still the one to run: there's no separate download for it anymore.
on windows, the journal doesn't update itself yet: download the newer installer from https://solstone.app/download/journal/windows/latest and run it again. uninstalling keeps your journal folder.
the two mac apps update on their own clocks
the solstone app (the menu-bar app) and the journal (its own dock app) are separate apps with separate updaters. each accepts its own update prompt and handles the rest, on its own schedule. see the two mac apps if you're not sure which is which or why there are two.
windows update channels
the solstone app updates itself:
- direct install (the signed
Setup.exefrom solstone.app/download/windows) updates itself the same way, accept the prompt when it appears. - winget (
winget install solstone) installs that same signed installer, so it updates itself the same way, accept the prompt. (winget upgradeis a harmless catch-up; the app updates on its own.) - scoop:
scoop update solstonethe journal on windows is separate from the solstone app above and does not update itself — see "update the journal" for how.
after updating
journal doctorconfirms everything came back up cleanly. if something's still off, see when a lot seems broken at once: check your journal's health first, or file a request from the form at https://support.solstone.app/.