Profile auto-update: setup and how it behaves
Providers shuffle nodes from time to time (new IPs, retired servers). A stale subscription means missing nodes at best, a dead profile at worst. Instead of remembering to refresh, set auto-update.
Setting it up
Right-click the profile card on the Profiles page and set the update interval (or fill in Update Interval when first downloading). The unit is minutes — 1440 means daily, plenty for most people.
Behavior details
- Updates run silently in the background; the new profile applies immediately without dropping active connections;
- Your manual node selection is preserved across updates (same-name nodes stay selected; if a node disappears, the group falls back to its first member);
- A failed update (network down, expired subscription) never breaks the current profile — the old one keeps working, and the failure appears in Logs;
- If the subscription URL itself needs a proxy, configure the profile to update via proxy (Alt-click the update button or the corresponding option) — otherwise auto-update will always fail while you are offline.
Pair this with GeoIP database auto-update in Settings so GEOIP,CN-style rules stay accurate too.