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railway autoupdate

Manage auto-update preferences for the Railway CLI on your local machine.

The command controls whether the CLI can automatically download or run updates for the installed binary. It doesn't change any project, environment, or service settings.

Usage

Subcommands

SubcommandAliasesDescription
enableonEnable automatic updates
disableoffDisable automatic updates
statusShow current auto-update status
skipSkip the current pending version

Examples

Show auto-update status

Shows whether automatic updates are enabled, disabled by local preference, disabled by environment, or disabled in CI.

Enable automatic updates

Enables automatic updates unless they are disabled by RAILWAY_NO_AUTO_UPDATE or by a CI environment.

Disable automatic updates

Disables future automatic updates. You can still update the CLI manually with railway upgrade.

Skip a pending update

Skips the current pending version. Automatic updates resume when a newer version is released.