# How do you update Zola?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 7, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-update-zola/2198 "2024-07-07T13:01:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![JeffPorter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/jeffporter/32/1250_2.png) [@JeffPorter](https://zola.discourse.group/u/JeffPorter)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-update-zola/2198/1 "2024-07-07T13:01:41Z")

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How do you update Zola on a Mac without everything breaking? I am familiar with Homebrew, if that helps.

It just I installed Zola on my office computer – not realising you had introduced a new version (0.19.0) – cloned the repo of my site, went to run `zola serve` and it came back with errors. All, so far, have related to config.toml. I only wanted a backup of the site on my office computer in case anything went wrong.

I have 0.18.0 on my laptop where everything is ticking along nicely.

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**Author:** ![dustinknopoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dustinknopoff](https://zola.discourse.group/u/dustinknopoff)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-update-zola/2198/2 "2024-07-07T18:41:46Z")

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I don’t, but in theory you’d need to pin your dependencies somehow.

Either:

- install Zola via cargo or curl and always specify the version number
- use something like [Devbox: Portable, Isolated Dev Environments](https://www.jetify.com/devbox) and pin your dev environment versions

I don’t think homebrew allows you to pin the version of a formula

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**Author:** ![JeffPorter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/jeffporter/32/1250_2.png) [@JeffPorter](https://zola.discourse.group/u/JeffPorter)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-update-zola/2198/3 "2024-07-08T05:22:05Z")

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Thanks, @dustinknopoff.

You’ve given me a few pointers. So it appears I’m going to have to learn something new to me again, or I just stick with 0.18.0 on my laptop and use my office computer as a backup.

Is there anyway to install v0.18.0 on my office comp?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-update-zola/2198/4 "2024-07-08T09:27:05Z")

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You can download the version you want for a few OS on the releases page: [Releases · getzola/zola · GitHub](https://github.com/getzola/zola/releases)

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**Author:** ![JeffPorter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/jeffporter/32/1250_2.png) [@JeffPorter](https://zola.discourse.group/u/JeffPorter)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-update-zola/2198/5 "2024-07-08T13:53:06Z")

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Thanks, @keats.