[GH-ISSUE #373] Add self-update command #263

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opened 2026-03-01 21:41:53 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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Originally created by @myselfhimself on GitHub (Sep 28, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/373

User story: As an act user with act installed, I can upgrade the latter to some latest stable or unstable codebase version thanks to a CLI command; I do not need to be root neither to use a sudo command.
CLI signature (proposal): act -U|--self-update [version-number|preview]
Reason: need for more ease of use, laziness to search the internet for the install command and to reinstall a new act version as a sudo/root.

This is a similar idea to:

pip install --upgrade pip, pip install -U pip (per StackOverflow)
poetry self update --preview

Originally created by @myselfhimself on GitHub (Sep 28, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/373 User story: As an act user with act installed, I can upgrade the latter to some latest stable or unstable codebase version thanks to a CLI command; I do not need to be root neither to use a sudo command. CLI signature (proposal): `act -U|--self-update [version-number|preview]` Reason: need for more ease of use, laziness to search the internet for the install command and to reinstall a new act version as a sudo/root. This is a similar idea to: - `pip install --upgrade pip`, `pip install -U pip` ([per StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15221473/how-do-i-update-pip-itself-from-inside-my-virtual-environment#15223296)) - [poetry self update --preview](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#updating-poetry)

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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Nov 28, 2020):

Issue is stale and will be closed in 7 days unless there is new activity

@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Nov 28, 2020): Issue is stale and will be closed in 7 days unless there is new activity

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2026-03-01 21:52:07 +03:00

[PR #872] [MERGED] fix: interpolate env for step actions #1658

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