[RESOLVED] Questions about exfatprogs updates

[Joel64]

I noticed today that exfatprogs had a new release (v1.2.6) last week. Is this something that gets added to the regular Kubuntu updates, or do I need to update it manually? And is it vital to keep it updated to the latest version?

[claydoh]

No, it would not see an upgrade between releases.

Unless there is some brand new feature or you are experiencing a very major bug, there likely isn't a reason to touch something low level like this.

Upgrading would be a manual things, compiling the code, unless some one has created an external repo like a PPA for it

[jlittle]

on 24.10, I have version 1.2.5-2.

Unless the new version is deemed a security update, or otherwise important, on the LTS release you may not get the new version.

If there's a fix you really want from the new version, you can clone it from github, and easily build it yourself. It took me a couple of minutes. I would first run

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt build-dep exfatprogs

but it's quite possible those commands would do nothing; however, if they do, they might pick up something needed. Then click the green "Code" button and copy the URL to the clipboard, and run git clone with that URL. F. ex. git clone https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs.git. As well, the make install will need sudo.