# Juliaup: update of versions db fails?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 22, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147 "2026-10-22T07:20:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![chskcau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chskcau](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chskcau)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147/1 "2026-10-22T07:20:57Z")

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Hi everyone, I hope that _General Usage_ is the right category for this question. Please feel free to move it if not.

I wanted to install the new Julia 1.14 alpha but found that I couldn’t install it using `juliaup`. Specifically, I get

```julia-auto
C:\> juliaup self update
    Checking for new Julia versions
Error: Failed to update versions db.

Caused by:
    0: Failed to download current version db version.
    1: Failed on http_client.GetStringAsync.get
    2: Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (). (0x80190194)

```

The OS is Windows 11, in case this matters; Julia is installed from the Microsoft Store and was updated one or two days ago.

```julia-auto
> where juliaup
C:\Users\LocalUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\juliaup.exe

```

Is this a known issue? A possible problem on my side?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![bocc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bocc/32/7546_2.png) [@bocc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bocc)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147/2 "2026-10-22T07:32:15Z")

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Can confirm:

```julia-auto
curl https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/juliaup/RELEASECHANNELDBVERSION

```

(the url the installer tries to query) results in:

```julia-auto
<Error><Code>NoSuchBucket</Code><Message>The specified bucket does not exist</Message><BucketName>julialang-s3.julialang.org</BucketName><RequestId>HWJQF6F4NXJT8BHS</RequestId><HostId>/QD26KTAHN6001TPzrSLl1TXtZpJiJFDdFP7iOVK042GKesexnLxNEz5ibTKDGjdFhMfOP/a3i9fRr7xTT76OmGV5LKRkvDL</HostId></Error>

```

I tried this on Ubuntu.

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147/3 "2026-10-22T08:04:33Z")

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Should be fixed now. There was a race condition while deploying a new cache config.

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**Author:** ![bocc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bocc/32/7546_2.png) [@bocc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bocc)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147/4 "2026-10-22T08:09:27Z")

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It is fixed, thank you!

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**Author:** ![chskcau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chskcau](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chskcau)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-update-of-versions-db-fails/140147/5 "2026-10-22T09:28:12Z")

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I can also confirm that it’s working now. Thank you very much for the quick fix!