> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.adside.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Updates

> How adside keeps itself up to date, and how to turn that off.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Automatic updates start with 0.4.0. On an older version, update once with `npm install -g adside@latest`.

adside keeps itself up to date. About once a day, a command checks npm for a new release in the background and installs it, and your next command runs it. Nothing waits for the update, and a command's output never mentions it: the one-line notice goes to the terminal, on stderr.

```bash theme={null}
adside update             # update now
adside update --check     # only check
```

A new major version, which may change commands, waits for you to run `adside update`.

## Turn it off

Set `ADSIDE_DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1` to turn the background update off. It is already off in CI.

If adside cannot update itself, for example because npm installs global packages in a folder only an administrator can write to, `adside update` says what to run instead.


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