Cursor update regardless of the update settings

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Hi,

The last versions of Cursor were broken and I had to roll back, so to avoid any interruption in my workflow, I tried to use the setting update.mode in the settings.json, however, it seems that Cursor does not respect this setting.

I tried the following

"update.mode": "manual",

"update.mode": "none",

But none of the above works, every time there is a new version available the IDE will update itself.

How can I prevent the auto-update feature?

Before updating I would like to at least check the changelog and other users feedback.

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Hey, unfortunately, you can’t disable automatic updates. Could you let me know what isn’t working for you in the new versions?

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Incompatibility with 3rd party extensions, hallucinations, issues with the composer, nothing new.

all was already reported by other users in the forum.

I just would like Cursor to respect the user settings and didn’t force any update…

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In latest (v0.45.15), the remote SSH session extension is broken. It throws 404 error when downloading the remote-ssh plugin.

Renders cursor not usable because of this update. I have an older version (v0.45.7), which works totally fine, but every time I close it, it automatically uninstalls and takes 20 minutes to update it to latest version and thus, breaking the remote plugin. I tried disabling updates and setting it manual, but nothing works and I can’t use cursor even if I am paying.

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Yes, even as a paying user, it seems that we are testing a bleeding edge software that can update several times a day and always break something.

I blocked the update endpoint and changed the app to read only, but it will always find a way to update itself.

That is unacceptable, and the reason I am not a paying user/not a user anymore.

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