After you've installed the IDE, you may need to update qconn on your target systems to take advantage of new features. The IDE will work with older versions of qconn, but not all features will be available.
After you update qconn on your host system, you need to update it on your target system. How you do this depends on your target system; you might have to build and transfer over a new image, or you might simply have to copy the new version to your target, as explained below.