[EDIT: it was user-error.] The seemingly latest version of Conky shows an old version number

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EDITED: It was user error. I would delete this question, but I cannot see a way of doing that.

• Just now I downloaded the Conky source-code, built Conky, and installed it (all on Linux). I used a script of mine to do most of that. The script fetches the release labelled 'latest'.

• Yet, Conky reports - via its ability to display its own version, and via conky --version, version '1.12.2 compiled 2022-02-23'.

• The 'latest release' was a few hours ago and is version 1.18.2. (Note the '18'.)

• So, I uninstalled Conky, used git manually to get the very latest version of the software, and rebuilt Conky and installed it. Same result.

Can anyone shed light? Thanks.

EDIT: silly me; I forgot the make install and I had an older version installed already.