# Updates

Source: https://docs.gryt.chat/docs/client/updates

How the desktop client updates itself, and what to do when it stops

The desktop client checks for a new release on startup, downloads it, and
installs it before the main window opens. There is nothing to click and no
setting to turn on. If you are on the beta channel it looks at prereleases too.

A release you already have downloaded is not downloaded again, so the second
attempt at the same version is quick even if the first one was interrupted.

## The client will not update (Windows)

Windows builds **v1.6.6 through v1.6.24** cannot install an update. They find
the new release and download it correctly, then fail at the last step and start
again on the version they were already on. Left alone, such an install
re-downloads every new release forever and never moves.

You are affected if Gryt says it is one of those versions in
**Settings → Updates & about** and has been saying so for a while.

<Callout type="warn">
These installs cannot repair themselves. The part that is broken is the part
that would install the fix, so no future release reaches them on its own. It
takes one manual install, once.
</Callout>

### Fixing it

The installer is almost certainly already on your machine — your client
downloaded it and then could not run it. You do not need to download anything.

<Steps>

<Step>
Close Gryt completely, including the tray icon.
</Step>

<Step>
Open `%LOCALAPPDATA%\gryt-chat-updater\pending` — paste that into the File
Explorer address bar or the Run dialog.
</Step>

<Step>
Check the version in the filename. It has to be `Gryt-Chat-1.6.25-win-x64.exe`
or newer.
</Step>

<Step>
Run it.
</Step>

</Steps>

<Callout type="error">
Do not run an installer older than 1.6.25 out of that folder. It carries the
same broken updater, so it leaves you exactly where you started while looking
like it worked — and the version that is sitting there is whichever one your
client last tried to install, which may well be one of the broken ones.
</Callout>

If the file there is older than 1.6.25, or the folder is empty or missing,
download the current installer from the
[latest release](https://github.com/Gryt-chat/gryt/releases/latest) and run
that instead.

Updates install on their own again afterwards, and your settings, servers and
identity are untouched — none of that lives in the installation directory.

### What went wrong

The Windows install step ran through a PowerShell helper that was assembled
from a list of lines joined with `; `. Several of those lines continued an
expression onto the next one, so the semicolons landed inside expressions
rather than between statements. PowerShell parses a whole script before running
any of it, which is why nothing happened at all rather than something partial:
no installer, no log, and the app restarted on the version it already had.

Fixed in v1.6.25. Windows also installs on quit again, so a handoff that fails
now has a second route rather than being the only one.