[Qgis-user] Disable QGIS auto update

[Frederik Mørup Jacobsen]

It still auto updates.

I made a fresh install on my computer with version 3.44.10
This morning it has autoupdated to version 4.0.2

Are there any suggestions to what may be causing this?

BR
Frederik
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Fra: QGIS-User <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> På vegne af Frederik Mørup Jacobsen via QGIS-User
Sendt: 28. maj 2026 15:06
Til: Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de>; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Emne: Re: [Qgis-user] Disable QGIS auto update

Its called qgis-ltr-bin.exe in Properties under "Destination".

I have tried installing 3.44.10 now and will see if that autoupdates as well.

I will keep you posted.

BR
Frederik
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Fra: QGIS-User <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> På vegne af Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-User
Sendt: 28. maj 2026 15:00
Til: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Emne: Re: [Qgis-user] Disable QGIS auto update

Hi DelazJ

On Thu, 28. May 2026 at 11:25:47 +0000, DelazJ via QGIS-User wrote:
> Le 28 mai 2026 08:05:38 GMT+00:00, "Régis Haubourg via QGIS-User" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
> >Can you check what executable is linked to your icon ?
> >Qgis-ltr and qgis-release are isolated launchers.

> Just to remind that qgis-release doesn't point to 3.40 anymore but to
> 4.0. So unless the OP specifically selected the 3.40 executable in the
> download archives folder, they were probably installing 4.0 at the start...

That's the point.

In OSGeo4W (and in turn the msis) 3.40.10 can only be an qgis-ltr (or qgis-ltr-dev), while 4.0 can only be qgis (or qgis-rel-dev).

So the link shortcut should be different (qgis-bin.exe vs. qgis-ltr-bin.exe).

So it can't even be a OSGeo4W update - how ever that could be initiated silently automatically, because that wouldn't uninstall qgis-ltr and install qgis.  An update would just update qgis-ltr to 3.44.

I suppose there is something else going on outside of the installer that determines that 4.0 is the latest release, fetches the latest MSI and removes the installed one upfront - without any action on our part.

Maybe "it" just detects that there are more downloads in the QGIS-OSGeo4W-\d+-\d+.msi scheme with QGIS-OSGeo4W-4.0.2-1.msi being the latest.


Jürgen

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