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Updating a NativeScript app is usually a quick process if done regularly. The following guides aim to document the general update steps, highlighting breaking changes (if any) when updating between specific versions.

Update guides

Updating to a tagged version

To try upcoming features that have not been release yet, you can install the next tag of the CLI (built from the latest commit in the NativeScript CLI repository) via:

bash
npm install -g nativescript@next

You can also pass a tag to the ns update command.

For example, to try all the latest features that have not made it into a stable release yet, you can run:

bash
ns update next
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