# Is the Julia registry down?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-julia-registry-down/125603
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-julia-registry-down/125603 "2025-02-06T09:01:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![sylvaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sylvaticus/32/203883_2.png) [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-julia-registry-down/125603/1 "2025-02-06T09:01:48Z")

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It seems that the registry can’t be downloaded or updated…

```julia
julia> Pkg.update()
    Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General.toml`
┌ Error: Some registries failed to update:
│ — /home/lobianco/.julia/registries/General.toml — failed to download from https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/cf183b39eec128a6d5d1049f38482eaf1de85918. Exception: RequestError: HTTP/2 500 while requesting https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/cf183b39eec128a6d5d1049f38482eaf1de85918
└ @ Pkg.Registry ~/lib/julia-1.11.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/Registry/Registry.jl:529

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/9/59df449bc7177be1a50b5d6e78ee04976e111771.png)

(it worked minutes ago…)

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stephen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-julia-registry-down/125603/2 "2025-02-06T09:03:07Z")

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Same error here, and some registries failed to update:

```julia
┌ Error: Some registries failed to update:
│ — /home/rzhli/.julia/registries/General.toml — failed to download from https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/cf183b39eec128a6d5d1049f38482eaf1de85918. Exception: RequestError: HTTP/2 500 while requesting https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/cf183b39eec128a6d5d1049f38482eaf1de85918
└ @ Pkg.Registry ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.3+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/Registry/Registry.jl:546

```

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### Author: ![sylvaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sylvaticus/32/203883_2.png) [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-julia-registry-down/125603/3 "2025-02-06T09:15:06Z")

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it works now…

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-julia-registry-down/125603/4 "2025-02-06T09:26:12Z")

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For future reference, this was a [Cloudflare incident](https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/pgz7g5xlpxzr), as the screenshot above also suggested.