With the OpenERP 7 All-In-One windows installer, your main options to update are:
- Uninstall the current version and reinstall the latest nightly build (this will include all recent patches as well as translations, etc.)
- Or wait for an update to appear in the list of updates in the Settings menu, then install it (this will only appear when an important patch has been made on one of the modules you've installed, e.g. not for translation changes etc.) This will only work as of March 2013, when the v7 variant of OpenERP Apps becomes fully active.
By the way, on a stable OpenERP version (such as v7), there is no need to update frequently unless a bug that is important for you has just been fixed. As the saying goes: "if it ainât broke, donât fix it".
Now if your goal is to always run the latest version of the sources, you could try to run OpenERP from the source tree directly. That way you can always update with a simple bzr pull
. This is rather technical and meant for developers however, so if you don't know what Bazaar is or how to use the command-line, you should probably stick to the All-In-One installer.
I found this documentation which gives comprehensives instructions on updating a windows install including the database update https://doc.openerp.com/v6.0/install/windows/updating/