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Hitting Return doesn't work as there is a bug that I couldn't work out before the release, I will fix it after release.

the update button affects what is shown in the table, if you want to update only the selection you need to set the filter Show Selected and then press Update Filtered.

I will consider bringing a Update Selection button in 2.6 but I prefer the Filter -> Update method because you get what you see.

If you need to updates on in batch just leave the filter to Show Selected and it will update as the selection does.

We should probably set the default attribute table filter to "selection (if present)" that will show selection or - if no selection is present - all features.

That was neither supposed to propose to change the filter on the user nor not to introduce the "Update Selected" button.

The proposal was just to change the filter mode "Selection" to "Selection (if present)" and to use this as default when opening the attribute table. So it is only marginally related to this issue.

Having to hide the non-selected records before running an update to change the selected records is a lot more work, particularly when working with large tables that need small groups of records updated each time. I would also prefer to be able to see both the selected and non-selected records when updating selected records as this provides me with feedback that the update operation has honored the intended scope.

Another potential issue relating to long tables is the sort order of the table changing after an update operation. This is very unhelpful when manually processing tables starting at the top and moving progressively toward the bottom. I am not suggesting QGIS has this issue, I have not looked but another system I use does this. In short, I prefer to be able to edit small selections without having to requery the table or perform any other operation that could effect row order.