element-web/docs/updates.md
Michael Telatynski b90a32bea4
Fix web-docs.element.dev deployment (#32922)
* Fix docs

* Switch to vitepress for doc generation

* Run doc build in CI

* Switch docs build to layered
2026-03-25 17:10:06 +00:00

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The Desktop app is capable of self-updating on macOS and Windows. The update server base url is configurable as update_base_url in config.json and can be served by a static file host, CDN or object storage.

Currently all packaging & deployment is handled by Github actions

Windows

On Windows the update mechanism used is Squirrel.Windows and can be served by any compatible Squirrel server, such as https://github.com/Tiliq/squirrel-server

macOS

On macOS the update mechanism used is Squirrel.Mac using the newer JSON format as documented here.