they should make the new installer magically appear in everyone's dropbox.

I guess that would scare some and annoy some more.

The process is extremely heavily tested to make sure it just works.

This is one app that I prefer doesn't auto-update.

For most people it already works great, why rock the boat?

For others, let them control the updates... These are our files, after all!

Yes. it auto-updates. http://www.dropbox.com/help/13

The windows version seems to auto-update now. My 1.0.6 has auto updated to 1.0.10

I guess auto-updated was introduced in the betas?

As for my linux ones, don't know. I can't figure out how to get the version string from them.

On Linux, hovering the mouse over the icon displays the version. It's also greyed-out on the Prefs/General page.

I grab debs directly from their repo, but it's still on 0.7.110. Not that it matters for me.

The deb version is different from the internal version. The debs are just wrappers, the important binaries get downloaded to ~/.dropbox-dist, and those are auto-updated. If you want to force an auto-update, do this:

    $ dropbox stop
    $ rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
    $ dropbox start -i

Same version number for me on OSX. And I'm using the forum-version updater.