Hi all, That is also my assumption. QGIS itself doesn't enforce any update. We do not have or want such mechanisms. There must be other mechanisms at work in your IT system that auto-updates things if there is a newer version available.
Andreas On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 at 08:53, Burghardt Scholle via QGIS-User < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Frederik, > > just a suggestion: Could it be that a WinGet process is running in the > background via Intune and updating applications without asking? > > BR > Burghardt > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: QGIS-User [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von > Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-User > Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Juni 2026 11:48 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] Disable QGIS auto update > > ACHTUNG: Externe E-Mail - Diese E-Mail erreicht Sie von einem Absender > außerhalb der städtischen IT-Infrastruktur. > > > Hi all, > another user recently reported to this mailing list that their QGIS > installation on a Windows system kept updating itself from 3.44 to 4.0 > against their will [1]. > > After various messages, it turned out that the issue was due to the fact > that their "outsourced IT provider was updating it due to their cyber > security protocol" [2]. > > Also recently, another user reported on gis.stackexchange the same issue > [3] without giving further explanations. > > Regards. > > Andrea Giudiceandrea > > > [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2026-April/056229.html > [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2026-May/056270.html > [3] > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/500715/disable-autoupdate-of-qgis > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-User mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-User mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- -- Andreas Neumann QGIS.ORG board member (treasurer)
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