Sonarr version (exact version): 3.0.5.1144
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows):
OS: Windows 10
Debug logs:
Description of issue: I need to stop automatic updates while I am away for a few months. I cannot find a way to prevent them from downloading and automatically installing. I must be missing something? I just turned off the Windows updates so that won’t happen while I am away. I need the “files” to continue to download as I have a job that forwards some of them to my idrive Sync folder for transport to the motorhome while are on the road. -Bill
On Windows, you can’t disable sonarr updates.
Are you sure, that sounds way too odd? This stuff updates more than an IT guy wants. How do we pin it on the stable release and control which updates are installed? Nobody wants software updated constantly like this appears to do. -Bill
Yep, I’m sure.
What I’m not sure about is why you don’t want to get updates, since I’ve seen a breaking update exactly once in all the years I have used sonarr (and zero times since I moved to docker, but I digress) and the nature of the game (automatic downloads) is a constantly moving target anyway so sonarr will never be “done”, but to each their own I guess 
I’ve been an IT person for most of my life supporting business that measured their downtime costs in millions $ per hour. Allowing automatic updates to anything we count on is not a best practice in anyone’s reality. Rule of thumb is when the next update comes out you can look at release notes to see what they had to fix from the prior update. The only time that can’t be followed is during attacks on our systems. I bet all those solar winds deployments wished they hadn’t allowed auto updates. And solar-winds has liability insurance. Just saying. I will figure out a way to prevent it from updating. Maybe just remove all but read and execute permissions from the service. Kind of a really big miss for the developers for this day and age. -Bill
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