@sgunhouse
Many thanks, and apologies for what appeared to be an unnecessary question.

I am used to the manual method of adding sources, and was not aware of the change.

I have never used anything from microsoft, which includes their OSses. I have been using Linux since Mothers' Day of 1995, so you could say that I'm all-in with FOSS.

A number of years ago, I decided to simplify my life to a significant degree, which landed me with Debian as my go0to OS Distro of choice, and one of the major features which makes life easier is in their structural support for, and methods of dealing with, package distribution and updates.

Now, there are two other publishers of Internet browser software, written for Linux, (Google who publishes Chrome, and Mozills who publishes Firefox and Thunderbird) that have set0up a fraction of their Internet-facing servers to function as a repository for their newly published releases.

Given that they are only producing .deb packages for their new releases, inn 32 and 64 bit code-bases, with a probable nod in the direction of the ARM64 family of µPs, it isn't an onerous task, given the other items that are on their plate.

What it provides to the users of their Internet browsers is a nearly instant implementation of updates to the software, be it feature enhancements, or security patches, because many of us, as Linux users tend to automate the process through our crontab entries.

So, finally, my question is, does Opera provide similar resources for users of their browser, for the purposes of streamlining code updates, and keeping current with the latest browser updates and security patches?

I have not gound any mention of this in my searches of the website.