Once Add-on Updater offers official support for add-on store, I will declare feature freeze on Add-on Updater – no more suggestions, only bug fixes and localization updates. Add-on Updater feature freeze: you could say the last thing I’m working on for Add-on Updater is improving add-on store support.Once add-on store client comes to NVDA alpha snapshots, I will enable broad support for add-on store as an update source via a future stable version of Add-on Updater. Broad (and official) support for checking add-on updates from NV Access add-on store: NV Access is planning to bring add-on store client to NVDA in the future, beginning with a future alpha build (work in progress at the moment).

Experimental support for upcoming NV Access add-on store: available now as part of Add-on Updater 23.03.x.Specifically, the tentative end of life schedule for Add-on Updater is as follows (replacement: add-on store in NVDA, work in progress): But I also know that some people would like to wait a while before jumping to newer NVDA releases, so I will instruct Add-on Updater to keep offering updates to older NVDA releases for some time. If things align, I will announce end of life for Add-on Updater shortly after an NVDA release with add-on store client comes to everyone. At the moment things are slowly coming together, with more add-ons coming to add-on store and NV Access working on add-on store code internally. The other side is giving add-on authors an easier way to release updates- no more human reviews prior to add-on release, automated add-on metadata checks, to name a few. We have add-ons performing similar functionality such as Tienda, but what’s important was to have NVDA itself do it without relying on add-ons. Originally, I thought the bulk of Add-on Updater code will become part of NVDA itself, but NV Access and the community had a bigger idea: create an add-on store to browse and download add-ons compatible with the NVDA version you’ve got. When I announced Add-on Updater in July 2018, I did note that the lifespan of this add-on is tied to NVDA development, specifically add-on update check facility. While the subject conveys what amounts to a sad news, it is actually good news as something folks have been dreaming about is being worked on actively by NV Access: ability to check for, download, and update add-ons directly from NVDA without employing add-ons! Yes, you heard it right – NV Access and members of the add-ons community are hard at work on bringing add-on store to NVDA, with add-on authors submitting their add-ons metadata to an add-on datastore repository:

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