Please follow the installation section of the readme.

Note: If you were using Lodestone Core before, please switch to Lodestone CLI instead. Lodestone CLI may warn you of a dirty installation directory like so

[!!] Path C:\Users\user\.lodestone is not empty, this is normal if you ran an older version of Lodestone Core

You safely ignore this.

todo

Lodestone Desktop should prompt you to update to the latest version when available.

If it doesn't, please raise an issue and manually downloading the latest release here

You should not be using Lodestone Core standalone unless in docker, as it does not have the ability to self-update.

Use Lodestone CLI instead.

Lodestone CLI will automatically prompt you for update when there is one available.