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Updates

DM Loremind notifies you of new versions. How you update depends on your installation mode.

Desktop mode (installer)​

The application checks in the background for new versions on the GitHub releases. When a newer version is available:

  • a notification bubble appears, and the notification-area (systray) icon offers a "⬇ Download the update" item.
  • clicking it opens the release page to get the new installer.

The update is manual: re-download the .msi (Windows) or the .AppImage (Linux) from the Download page, then:

  • Windows: double-click the new .msi — it updates the existing installation in place.
  • Linux: replace the old .AppImage with the new one.

Your data (~/.loremind) is kept in all cases.

Quit before updating

Before installing the update, quit DM Loremind from the systray. The installer will offer to do it for you, but it may not always shut everything down cleanly — so I recommend doing it manually.

Docker mode (Watchtower)​

If you answered yes to the "Enable auto-updates" question during the Docker installation, a Watchtower container runs alongside the others. Every night at 4 a.m. it checks the registry for new versions of core, brain, and web, downloads them, and restarts the affected containers.

Postgres and MinIO are deliberately excluded

The databases and object storage hold persistent data. A minor or major version bump must be validated manually to avoid schema incompatibilities.

Enabling or disabling later​

Edit the .env file in the installation directory:

COMPOSE_PROFILES=autoupdate    # enables Watchtower
COMPOSE_PROFILES=              # disables Watchtower

Then apply the change:

docker compose up -d
docker compose stop watchtower  # only if you have just disabled it

Changing the schedule​

WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE in .env accepts the 6-field cron syntax: sec min h day month weekday.

Examples:

  • 0 0 4 * * * — every day at 4 a.m. (default).
  • 0 30 3 * * 0 — every Sunday at 3:30 a.m.

"Notify only" mode​

If you prefer to be notified without the containers restarting automatically at night:

WATCHTOWER_MONITOR_ONLY=true

Then run docker compose up -d watchtower. Watchtower will keep checking the registry every night, the UPDATE badge will appear in the UI sidebar, and an Update now button will be available under Settings → Updates.

Manual update (at any time)​

From the interface: Settings → Updates → Update now.

From the CLI:

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d