Upgrading to 4.6 & Application Compatibility - A Suggestion

[Joy Rex]

I think it is pretty common for users of IPS to have Applications and Plugins from the Marketplace - it would be helpful if the ACP had a built-in version check against the currently installed applications and plugins and what is compatible with the upgrade, rather than having to manually check each one (which for some could mean quite a bit of back and forth).

Has anyone found a more efficient/automated way of doing this?

[Nathan Explosion]

Click the 'Check for Updates' button - it's not just for checking if IPS itself has updates available.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Yes, when IPS4 checks for updates for itself, it also checks 3rd party items. That being said, however, that is largely dependent on the author setting a URL to send the update check to. 3rd party items linked to the marketplace will use version information from there.

[Nathan Explosion]

4 minutes ago, Ryan Ashbrook said:

.....that is largely dependent on the author setting a URL to send the update check to.

Nope...

On 6/29/2020 at 10:16 AM, Stuart Silvester said:

After this process is completed, these resources that have been linked together will automatically receive new version information and can be updated via the Marketplace integration

Custom - uses the developer's provided URL.

MP - checks the MP entry.

Edited June 21, 2021 by Nathan Explosion

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I corrected my post to clarify shortly after as I realized I forgot to mention that part specifically. 🙂 

[Joy Rex]

Thanks for everyone's replies - I guess I didn't make it clear that I wanted a way of knowing which applications and plugins are compatible with 4.6 BEFORE upgrading, so when I do upgrade, I'll know which apps and plugins aren't yet tested against 4.6 or aren't compatible at all due to version compatibility.