# How do I know when a new version of a dependency is available?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-know-when-a-new-version-of-a-dependency-is-available/31083
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 14, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-know-when-a-new-version-of-a-dependency-is-available/31083 "2019-11-14T13:51:36Z")
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### Author:  [@essenciary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/essenciary)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-know-when-a-new-version-of-a-dependency-is-available/31083/1 "2019-11-14T13:51:36Z")
I have recently switched to using a comprehensive `[compat]` section in my `Project.toml` files in order to enable automatic registration (which works great, btw).
However, now how do I know which packages get new versions so that I can test and upgrade them, given that `pkg> up` will ignore newer versions which don’t match?
Ie `[compat]` section in Genie:
```nohighlight
[compat]
ArgParse = "0.6"
FilePaths = "0.8"
Gumbo = "0.5"
HTTP = "0.8"
HttpCommon = "0.5"
JSON = "0.21"
LoggingExtras = "0.3"
MbedTLS = "0.7"
Millboard = "0.2"
Nettle = "0.4"
OrderedCollections = "1"
Reexport = "0.2"
Revise = "2"
URIParser = "0.4"
julia = "1"
```
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-know-when-a-new-version-of-a-dependency-is-available/31083/2 "2019-11-14T14:02:29Z")
[https://github.com/bcbi/CompatHelper.jl](https://github.com/bcbi/CompatHelper.jl)
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### Author:  [@essenciary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/essenciary)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-know-when-a-new-version-of-a-dependency-is-available/31083/3 "2019-11-14T14:07:42Z")
Thanks!