# $JENKINS\_HOME/updates/ does not get updates after first installation
**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-home-updates-does-not-get-updates-after-first-installation/36444
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**Created:** [March 11, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-home-updates-does-not-get-updates-after-first-installation/36444 "2026-03-11T16:04:27Z")
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### Author:  [@vhout](https://community.jenkins.io/u/vhout)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-home-updates-does-not-get-updates-after-first-installation/36444/1 "2026-03-11T16:04:27Z")
Hi,
First our Jenkins setup: We run Jenkins (2.541.2) in a Docker container on RHEL 9.6, using docker-compose.
Our configuration is using a persistent volume.
We are long-term users of Jenkins.
We have noticed we do not get any new versions to choose from in our installed tools in Jenkins Tools (_`https://[jenkins]/manage/configureTools/`_).
The versions are stuck at what was there at our first installation of Jenkins in Docker.
The contents of directory _`$JENKINS_HOME/updates/`_ is never updated, it appears.
_`$JENKINS_HOME/updates/`_ is on our persistent volume.
We keep Jenkins and all its plugins updated very frequently.
We could of course manually update the files in the _`./updates/`_ directory but that seems wrong.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@vhout](https://community.jenkins.io/u/vhout)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-home-updates-does-not-get-updates-after-first-installation/36444/2 "2026-03-23T15:44:17Z")
In a fresh install of Jenkins and some plugins on Windows it works to stop Jenkins, remove the contents of $JENKINS\_HOME/updates/ and restart Jenkins: all files are added again with up-to-date content.
On our Linux/Docker install that does not work: no new files are added after starting Jenkins.
Perhaps our install has picked up some issues in the last 2 years, but for now I’ll just manually update the files in $JENKINS\_HOME/updates/