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#2953 Mentioning in the installer that it supports upgrade installations

KeePass_2.x
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nobody
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2025-11-06
2025-11-06
Sworddragon
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In the past decades on Windows it was unusual that an application supported silent manual upgrades from within it (like Firefox and other webbrowsers) and usually you would have to download its installer, uninstall the current version manually as upgrade installations via the installer might not be supported and might lead to issues otherwise and then you would start the newly downloaded installer to install the newest version.

Pretty tedious, but at least today installers seem to usually support either explicit upgrades (like the NVIDIA Graphics driver where the installer explicitly mentions it can be used to upgrade existing installations) or implicit upgrades by either mentioning nothing in the installer or by giving implicit hints (like the KeePass installer by not asking for the installation path anymore).

To make it easier for users to tell if the KeePass installer supports upgrade installations the installer could mention this. For example in its dialogs it always speaks of "Installation" even if the user tries to upgrade an existing installation. This could be clarified a bit more, probably mainly in the language selection since it is the first dialog that appears and optionally in some others. This way users would not have trying to figure out if upgrade installations are supported and thus if they would have to uninstall KeePass beforehand. Better would be even if KeePass would support silent upgrades from its Update Check dialog but I will create another ticket for this.

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