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# Version 0.20.1

> May 27, 2026

## <u>Features</u>

* **New `--force` option on `lager update`.** Re-runs an update even when Lager thinks your box is already up to date, and rebuilds the box cleanly from scratch. Reach for this if a previous update didn't finish and the box is acting strangely — `lager update --box <name> --force`.

## <u>Bug Fixes</u>

* **Updates no longer hang or fail on some networks.** On certain setups a box couldn't reach GitHub while updating, which made `lager update` appear to freeze for around 15 minutes and then fail. Boxes now connect reliably during an update, and a brief network hiccup is retried automatically instead of stopping the whole update.

## <u>Improvements</u>

* **Updating a box is much faster — about 30 seconds instead of \~15 minutes.** Lager now reuses the work from your last update instead of rebuilding everything from scratch each time. (A longer update still happens when the box's software dependencies actually change.)
* **Use `lager update` to update a box.** This is now the one command to remember. The older `lager box update` has been removed.

## <u>Installation</u>

To install this version:

```bash theme={null}
pip install lager-cli==0.20.1
```

To upgrade from a previous version:

```bash theme={null}
pip install --upgrade lager-cli
```

## Resources

[View Release on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/lager-cli/0.20.1/)