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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"minimum-release-age prevents ng update","articleBody":"Issue #31232 proposed minimumReleaseAge (or min-release-age) as a feature for ng update. As it did not get enough upvotes to bring this idea to the backlog.\n\nBut using minimumReleaseAge create a real problem, when trying to update angular.\n\n**What I have**\na small project with angular@21.2.8 ([esday-demo-angular](https://github.com/BePo65/esday-demo-angular)).\n\n`min-release-age=7` in .npmrc\n\n**What I did**\n```\nng update @angular/core@^21 @angular/cli@^21\n```\n\n**What I got**\n```\nThe installed Angular CLI version is outdated.\nInstalling a temporary Angular CLI versioned 21.2.9 to perform the update.\nAn unhandled exception occurred: Process exited with code 1.\nSee \"C:\\Users\\Berni\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ng-mGkIxv\\angular-errors.log\" for further details.\n```\nThe content of the logfile:\n```\n[error] Error: Process exited with code 1.\n    at ChildProcess.\u003canonymous\u003e (D:\\Projekte\\github\\esday-demo-angular\\node_modules\\@angular\\cli\\src\\package-managers\\host.js:65:28)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:509:28)\n    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1124:16)\n    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:306:5)\n```\n\n**my interpretation of what happended**\n1. ng update looks for the latest available version of @angular/cli in npmjs\n2. ng finds v21.2.9\n3. ng tries to install this version as a temporary version\n4. npm (or any other package manager) prevents the installation of @angular/cli@21.2.9 as this version was published only 2 days ago (today is 2026-05-02).\n5. ng updates emits the error `An unhandled exception occurred`\n\nSo to me it looks like `ng update` cannot simply ignore the setting `min-release-age` of the used package manager (or how this option is named in the different package mangers - e.g. pnpm uses \"minimumReleaseAge\").\n\nIMHO this concerns also the last comments in issue #31232 (e.g. by @mattharr in [#31232](https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/31232#issuecomment-4358484935)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/BePo65","@type":"Person","name":"BePo65"},"datePublished":"2026-05-02T09:10:54.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/33119/angular-cli/issues/33119"}