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# Disable the client auto-update

The Dockerized client is built with the latest version of the client available at build time which then remains unchanged within the relative image. To ensure that users are always using the most up to date version of the Meterian client, this is auto-updated by default when a more recent version is detected.

To disable this behaviour you can use the `CLIENT_AUTO_UPDATE` environment variable

```
export CLIENT_AUTO_UPDATE=false
```