# Getting beta2 from juliaup

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-beta2-from-juliaup/135490>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [February 5, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-beta2-from-juliaup/135490 "2026-02-05T20:44:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Soderlind](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paul_soderlind/32/1753_2.png) [@Paul\_Soderlind](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paul_Soderlind)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-beta2-from-juliaup/135490/1 "2026-02-05T20:44:58Z")

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…takes the following steps

1. juliaup update (to actually get beta2 listed)
2. juliaup add beta

That step 1 was required surprised me. Even more strange, this was required on one of my windows computers, not on the other.

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**Author:** ![jdad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jdad/32/4739_2.png) [@jdad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jdad)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-beta2-from-juliaup/135490/2 "2026-02-06T17:06:30Z")

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Note, `juliaup update` updates all the channels that are seen to have available update. So if, as myself you have `nightly` channel, it will also update it.

Personally, I do `juliaup self update` which updates _only_ the juliaup binary (if it needs it) and the channel status file, then I do `juliaup update 1.13` (that I have added some time ago, and which also includes beta)

Hope that helps,

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Soderlind](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paul_soderlind/32/1753_2.png) [@Paul\_Soderlind](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paul_Soderlind)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-beta2-from-juliaup/135490/3 "2026-02-06T18:02:12Z")

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Yes, it helps. Thanks. Maybe I missed reading some of the instructions. Perhaps.