Automatic updates to latest version after crashes

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I have encountered this several times now. When cursor hangs and requires forced closure, or crashes on its own, when you start it back up it appears to automatically update to the latest version. This has caused me to shift up to 1.5.x multiple times, and 1.5.x is a highly unstable build.

I have been explicitly choosing to stay on 1.4.6, because despite having some issues of its own, it has been a significantly more stable build than any 1.5.x build. Having my explicit chose to NOT upgrade be ignored and bypassed when a cursor crash occurs, forcing me back onto an unstable version of the product, is very unwelcome.

Please fix future versions of Cursor so that they will never upgrade until the user explicitly chooses to.

Steps to Reproduce

No real explicit reproduction…cursor must crash, and upon restart it updates.

Expected Behavior

Cursor remains on user’s chosen version until user explicitly chooses to upgrade.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.11
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 2f2737de9aa376933d975ae30290447c910fdf40
Date: 2025-09-05T03:48:32.332Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

2

Hey, thanks for the report. You can try disabling auto-update in the settings. However, we’re releasing version 1.6, which fixes many issues. You might want to try updating.

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I’ve been keeping an eye on 1.6. I plan to give it a whirl on my PC, but so far it seems like it isn’t quite stable enough for my use on my day-job project. The severity of the issues I ran into with 1.5.x were so bad, I’m a little trepidatious about trying 1.6 for my main job just yet. :wink:

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Ok. So I did set this to manual. Did not realize it was in teh VSCode settings, rather than Cursor settings. Does this setting affect cursor’s update notifications?

FWIW, when I do receive a cursor update notification, I will usually ignore, then manually check for updates when I am ready. Does saying ignore to those notifications, not actually PREVENT an update?

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Yes, I think this will completely disable receiving updates.

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