I have NetNewsWire installed with Homebrew. brew info netnewswire shows ==> netnewswire ✔ (NetNewsWire): 7.1.2 (auto_updates). Checking for updates from the menu bar shows NetNewsWire 7.1.2 is currently the newest version available.
I’m wondering why neither of these show 7.1.3 even though it has been released on GitHub
Good question! I don’t know how homebrew does this stuff — does it go by GitHub or by the feed we use for Sparkle updates?
If it’s the Sparkle feed, then the answer is because we haven’t released 7.1.3 to the production feed yet (but we have released it on the beta-testing feed).
Homebrew must go by the Sparkle feed then, good to know. I didn’t realize it was still in beta, since on GitHub it shows as the latest update and isn’t marked as a pre-release. Thanks for the explanation.
Edit: How do I know when the update has been released to production based on GitHub releases? Is it when the iOS update doesn’t show as a beta anymore?
To be clear: it’s not in beta. It’s been released.
But there are several steps to a release: the GitHub release, updating the beta feed, updating the production feed, and updating the download on the home page.
I’ve done the first two so far for 7.1.3. Sometimes I spread these tasks out over a few days when there lots of changes in a build, just so I can catch issues early and stop from going further if needed. (So far no unexpected issues with 7.1.3.)
I did the last two steps — update production feed and update home page download — today, which means Mac 7.1.3 has been fully released.
(Next step is to submit iOS 7.1.3 to App Store review.)