The update notification is sent out over time. In the forum you get notified immediately, and can download and install the update now. Most people are not active in the forum, but will see an update alert later. From what others have said that could be as much as two weeks after forum users have been told about the update.
I just tried the French version, and it is 2019.2. On Mac you want to make sure that SketchUp was quit before replacing the folder. Otherwise you can get a mixture of versions.
Bluerocco,
The update to SketchUp pro 2019.2 is available to both classic license holders and subscribers.
Subscribers additionally get an ability to use larger area imports in the geolocation feature.
Thanks, it works 
Hi Doug - I did download the new version and have had a play with it already. The focus of my original post is to do with the Geo locate feature and degree of resolution that seems limited to those of us on a Classic license despite the fact we are paid up members with our maintenance subscription. Hope that clarifies the point I was trying to make. Overall - quite impressed with some of the new features and edits to 2019.2. I have added a couple of other posts that I hope will help the development team to enhance further some of these latest changes.
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I also started with version 5, sticked to the plan etc. and the turning point was around 2017, meaning, the total costs I had payed over the years was the price of a ‘classic’ license (695)
At that point, that seemed reasonable and fair to me, there was no difference between ‘new’ customers and ‘oldies’ like me.
I then payed the maintenance for two years, one of those years being the no-thing-happened- 2018 (no bugfixes or meaningful Maintenance releases)
There should be ( and was promised to be considered) a plan for those who want to switch other then ‘just buy a subscription’
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Hi, I own a perpetual licence of Skechup Pro and I updated to the February SU 2019 release, and I found the few improvements rather useless. Now I think that 2019.2 release has more interesting features, but my yearly maintenance period has just expired. Do you consider 2019.2 a new release, and so I need an active yearly maintenance, or could it be considered a correction of the poor 2019 version so that I can upgrade it without buying another year of maintenance? I would be a little disappointed if my year of maintenance did not bring any real improvement in the software, as it was the passage from 2018 to 2019 SU version.
Download and install it. It should up date.
Hi Paolo,
If you have 2019.1 or 2019 and have a classic license then please download 2019.2 and use your same license key
Hopefully there are some improvements in there that feel good!
I like that you made a big deal about importing in the release email, then upon reading the release notes there is still no .obj or .fbx support. Get with it, I’m sick of converting files in Blender or using plugins, Sketchup should support these file types nativity.
Also Please support higher resolution imports from google maps, the maps that import with the location snapshot look horrible and are extremely pixelated.
Very great update! Fixed a lot of annoying bugs in LayOut.
Still hoping for more control over dimensions and leaders. Like text offset from dim line and making ISO style text and dimension leaders.
The only place I found how to use the new isometric dimensions was in the Instructor dialog. Please add the new modifiers in the blog post and the lower help bar in LayOut. A lot of users seem confused how to use this tool.
So why didn’t you implement this as an extension that does check if I’m current on M&S? If I am, the large area import works. If I’m not, the core functionality can remain.
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Same, for some reason it has never worked for me. Make sure you sketchup is closed and redownload it from the blog post
I don’t see anything like this with a classic license.
Classic M&S and Pro Subscription are to separate products that share only the basic ‘pro’ desktop version…
“Large Area Imports” is only added to Pro Subscription but the base webpage is shared…
john
Yes I understand the distinction in licensing. Your post made it sound to me like the dialog to acquire geo-located imagery has a place where you enter a subscription license code and that everyone sees that. If that were so, this could have been developed so that M&S customers could enter a similar code to validate they are current and access this feature.
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Wait, am I reading this correctly? I am currently a paid Pro user and I can’t take advantage of this feature? So you guys really are planning to force everyone over into Subscription only?! I have more than a decade into SketchUp and I hate to switch to anything else, but it just feels like you guys are really pushing to kick out your loyal user base. Why should I continue to invest in this platform when I can’t trust your plans for continued development. When the subscription model was released, those of us on existing Pro licenses were understandably upset. Your team said, “Calm down, you can still renew your Pro license just as always.” Then you come out with features that work with subscription Pro and not my Pro license? Shouldn’t we get some sort of refund for that $120 we paid expecting the same features when we aren’t getting the same features?
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FYI, the “most loyal customers” didn’t go over particularly well for me. I am a loyal customer, I had to pay a higher upfront cost to be a “Pro” users. A new user today will have to be a pro user for 4 years before they will pay more for SketchUp than someone who purchased for $695 and spends $120 a year on a maintenance subscription. This is one of the things that was brought up when subscriptions were released. I believe we were told that your team was considering some kind of discount for Pro users that converted to subscription, but I never heard of any of that coming to fruition. It seems you guys are going the opposite route. Slowing making my existing Pro license worse compared with the subscription license until I feel compelled to switch. Did you guys ever end up creating an offer to buy out classic Pro users with active maintenance subscriptions? If not, I do feel more than a little put out by knowing new features may continue to be developed that will be subscription only when I paid an upfront cost to be a Pro user and continued to pay maintenance fees.
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From @Last (2006) to Google to Trimble I have paid my annual Pro license fee, gladly in most years as SU was once a unique application with rewarding abilities … Now in SU 2019.2 I find no access to the update ‘L-A-I-for Add Location’ and with unexpected disappointment it is now clearly understood subscription is the only way to maintain future Pro access to SU … IMHO if that’s true, that’s a bad move Trimble
“Please note that all of these features are available to active SketchUp 2019 Classic license and active subscription users with the exception of the “Large Area Imports for Add Location” feature below. This feature is only available to subscription users …”
Ditto for me too.