Travel agents are working to update clients' data to head off problems once Secure Flight takes effect.
Enterprises and governments do need to try to keep their customers and their public secure; you have to patch software to keep it secure, by automatically updating client software from a trusted central controller … but this creates central choke points.
The updated client application includes a number of features not found in the earlier build (or in Google Drive itself, for that matter), including support for multiple Google accounts, selective sync, desktop notifications, support for external and network drives, built-in sharing, and more.
The reason isn't nostalgia: more than 13 years after its first release, and nearly 12 years after Aol bought the company behind ICQ (Mirabilis) for a whopping $407 million, there is an updated client available for download that finally brings the product into the era of the realtime web and social networking craze.
The updated clients are now live and can be downloaded here, but there is one potentially big caveat: Linux users can download and install the update but this forum post suggests they aren't privy to the new menu design just yet.
Update the client, if necessary.
Click the link to update the client, and allow it to run through completion.
Updating the signature repository also requires an update to clients utilizing the anti-virus application.
Perhaps with these new updates, the client will become more of a full-fledged client.
For example, over the summer we updated the client to use OAuth and improved MagicMouse support.
