A friend recommended me an older version which I installed via your old-version links, however now every time I close cursor it auto updates to a new version, which I dont like as much.
Although I am still a new user I quickly got used to the way the Composer looks, and really don’t like the new in-line code that appears in the Composer now. Really preferred the 42.5 version where it only showed the files it adjusted, and if clicked on it, showed more detail.
And besides the personal preference to the older version, an option to disable auto update should exists anyway imo.
Absolutely necessary! If core capabilities (such as ssh) keep breaking in newer updates, there needs to be a way to prevent automatic updating to broken versions.
Yeah The newest version literally broke my production site I just SSH-ed in, and ran a simple question to adjust a small part of my code, and CPU utilization started spiking from 5% to 70+ plus percent and the whole site just goes boom! offline/unresponsive. Not sure what is going on with this latest update. Absolute sadness.
I’ve posted this in another thread, but for visibility:
I had the same problem. 0.43.6 totally broken. 0.42.5 working great. I’m not sure if it’s going to work yet as only just tried this but on Linux I’ve just updated the app image to be executable but read-only.
$ chmod 555 cursor[version].AppImage
It should work in theory. Cursor seems to be working ok and I assume it can no longer be updated!
I’m also quite annoyed by the auto-update behavior. I have linked the appimage file to ~/.local/bin/cursor, anytime it updates the symlink is broken and cursor doesn’t start anymore. I usually want to run the latest version but it’s easier for me to perform the updates myself since the way cursor does it results in a broken setup.
For now I’ve set the appimage file to immutable: sudo chattr +i ~/.local/bin/cursor-0.44.8-build-241222ooktny8mh-x86_64.AppImage
The new version of VS Code, which Cursor uses, has removed support for older versions of python. I’m using hardware from a vendor, and I have absolutely zero control over the version of python that they support with their hardware.
I now have lost the ability to debug my code, because Cursor has forced the latest update on me.
Soon, VS Code will entirely remove support for the version of Ubuntu that my hardware vendor is using, which again, I HAVE ZERO CONTROL OVER. Once Cursor forces this update on me in the next month or two, I won’t even be able to connect to the hardware I’m using.
