What's New Page

After iRaceDeck updates to a new version, the What’s New page — the changelog on this website — can open once in your browser to show what changed. It opens at most once per release, and it always lists everything since your last visit, so you never miss a release even if you skip a few.

Never While Driving

The What’s New page never opens while iRacing is running. If the deck software updates the plugin mid-session — which restarts the plugin while you’re on track — the page quietly waits and opens right after you exit iRacing. If you restart your PC or the deck software first, it opens on the next start where iRacing isn’t running.

On a normal start with iRacing closed, the page opens about fifteen seconds after the deck software starts up.

Choosing When It Opens

The What’s New page setting controls when a due page actually opens. You’ll find it in the Settings window, on the What’s New tab.

• Open after every update — every new release opens the page once.
• Only after updates with new features — the default. Skips small bug-fix updates; feature releases still open the page.
• Open at most once a month — no more than one What’s New page per 30 days. A release inside that window stays pending and opens later, so nothing is skipped.
• Never open — the page never opens on its own. You can always read the changelog directly.

Whichever option you pick, the page shows all changes since the last version you saw.

Reading the Notes Any Time

You do not have to wait for an update, or be online. The Settings window’s What’s New tab carries the release notes for every version up to the one you are running, built into the plugin itself: your version is marked Installed, and the list reads the same with no internet at all.

Finding Out You Are Behind

The tab can also tell you a newer version exists. While the Settings window is open, iRaceDeck asks this website — at most once an hour — whether anything newer has been released. If it has, the What’s New tab gets an UPDATE badge, and the newer releases appear above yours marked Not installed, with their full release notes and a link to the downloads page. You get to read what is in an update before deciding to take it.

This is separate from the What’s New page above, and the two never say the same thing: that page opens after you update, this one tells you before. It is also the only thing on the tab that needs the internet — when it cannot reach the site, or finds nothing newer, the tab is exactly the offline list described above.

Turn it off with Check for new versions on the same tab. With it off, iRaceDeck never contacts this website on its own, and the changelog here is always the full archive.