The Desktop app doesn’t get the notifications of a new release and won’t self update so it would be a case of checking the website for a new version. If it helps looking at the download page the latest version is 0.209.4 which is Desktop version 1.9.0
It is not, I think we try to update the windows app monthly but if there is an issue we will hold off on the release so that the desktop app remains a bit more stable.
Just to give some more color, why we can not also release weekly.
Releasing Desktop, is a very manual and time-consuming process. For that reason, would a weekly release cycle be too much. Also it it important to understand that Dekstop is mainly meant so that people can give n8n a spin. It is not meant for long-term production use. There we recommend self-hosting n8n via Docker or n8n cloud.