# When is the "site just updated" message displayed?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 13, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440 "2015-10-13T05:39:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/1 "2015-10-13T05:39:29Z")
When does the [global update message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-copy-on-global-update-message/17063/2) get displayed?
> This site was just updated. Refresh now for the latest version?
I’m 90% sure I’ve seen it on my site on other occasions than updating Discourse or a plugin.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/2 "2015-10-13T05:49:19Z")
Only when the site is upgraded to a newer version via /admin/upgrade
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/3 "2015-10-13T05:50:13Z")
Hmmm, now that you mention it I’m not so sure.
I’ve seen it a few rare times and I didn’t think it meant that the sites version had been updated, but that the content had changed since the last time I had been actively browsing the forum. (i.e. online with the lights on but nobody home)
That is, Instead of the Notification count, New, Unread etc. incrementing the update message showed instead.
But now, seeing the topic you linked to,with “assets changed” I’m thinking it means the “store” / cache has changed enough so a hard refresh would be beneficial.
EDIT
ninja’d 😉
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Only when the site is upgraded to a newer version via /admin/upgrade
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/4 "2015-10-13T06:26:21Z")
This is displayed about 3 hours after the asset version changes IF you do not perform a route transition.
In general you would see it if you have a tab that you left around and came back to in the morning.
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/5 "2015-10-16T01:57:23Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Only when the site is upgraded to a newer version via /admin/upgrade
I haven’t upgraded in several days (there hasn’t been a new version), but I saw the message on tabs I had opened yesterday.
What I remember having done in the meantime that might affect this:
- rebuilt the container (\<-- this?)
- used the API to [post-process posts](https://github.com/dandv/discourse-post-process)
- made manual backups
- [blocked imported users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-if-i-block-the-ip-address-of-an-imported-user/34110)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/6 "2015-10-16T02:06:32Z")
Rebuilding the container will implicitly get a new version from git pull, doesn’t it @sam?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/7 "2015-10-16T02:08:17Z")
Yes it will … that is part of bootstrap
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### Author:  [@davideaston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davideaston)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/8 "2016-09-16T13:24:41Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> In general you would see it if you have a tab that you left around and came back to in the morning.
I’m curious to know if the “site updated” dialog can be suppressed and the application be updated automatically. My organization uses the hosted service and although it’s great that it is constantly being kept up to date, having to explicitly acknowledge the dialog quite often is a small annoyance to the many users in my organization who leave a dedicated browser tab open.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/9 "2016-09-16T20:40:03Z")
How often are you seeing it? That’s really rare. We update our hosted instances a few times a week at most, unless there are security or stability issues we are working through.
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### Author:  [@davideaston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davideaston)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/10 "2016-09-17T14:11:28Z")
Since we just assumed that it was prompted by an instance update we haven’t been recording occurrences. Our Discourse tabs get left open 24x7 on our office computers and based on my own experience I’m pretty sure the dialog is showing every weekday morning when I arrive. Furthermore I believe that occasionally there are days when I’ll come back to the tab later in the day and the dialog will be up a second time.
I’ll ask my user community to start noting occurrences so we have actual data to provide on this, and I’ll follow up with our findings at the end of the coming week.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/11 "2016-09-18T08:43:47Z")
At the moment we wait up to 4 hours prior to forcing the dialog, I think it is safe to bump it up to 24
Will do so
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/12 "2016-09-19T00:16:32Z")
I just checked in the increase: (we only prompt you to update if you are running a version that is 24 hours old or older)
Keep in mind as soon as you click on **any** link and are running an old version we automatically issue a full page reload (as opposed to just asking for the route json)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fd9056973a07eea56568209c68bbccccbd74e534](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fd9056973a07eea56568209c68bbccccbd74e534)
It will be deployed to our customers later this week.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/13 "2019-03-07T15:11:28Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-is-the-site-just-updated-message-displayed/34440/14 "2019-03-07T16:57:59Z")