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title: "Automatic Updates"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Streamline your development with Code Studio's automatic updates. Schedule pipelines to scan for outdated packages, create merge requests, and test changes. Keep your code current effortlessly."
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Code Studio provides automatic code updates through scheduled pipelines. Therefore, you must create a scheduled pipeline. When the scheduled pipeline runs, Code Studio scans your code for outdated Composer packages and deprecated code, and creates new merge request(s) if updates are available.

These merge requests trigger the Auto DevOps pipelines, automatically test the changes, and stage them on an Acquia CDE. On successful completion of all tasks, you can merge the merge requests.

Enabling automatic code updates
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Automatic Updates are automatically enabled by default when you follow the [Create a Code Studio project](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/code-studio/getting-started/creating-new-project) instructions.

You can create additional scheduled Pipelines and trigger them on demand by completing the following steps:

1.  Log in to the [Code Studio user interface](http://code.acquia.com/) or the link provided upon creation in the Cloud IDE.
2.  Select **Build** > **Pipeline schedules**.
3.  Click **New schedule** to create a new scheduled pipeline.
    
    ![Creating a scheduled pipeline](https://acquia.widen.net/content/wownm1wgnu/jpeg/code-studio_creating-a-scheduled-pipeline.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=0b06mk)
    
4.  In **Description**, enter a description for the scheduled pipeline.
5.  In **Interval Pattern**, do one of the following:
    
    *   Select your desired frequency from the options provided.
    *   Select **Custom** and set your custom frequency.
    
    Note
    
    Acquia recommends the **Interval Pattern** frequency of once per week.
    
    ![Set your desired frequency for the pipeline](https://acquia.widen.net/content/qrljufflhj/jpeg/code-studio_saving-pipeline-schedule.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=0b06mk)
    
6.  Complete the remaining fields and then click **Create pipeline schedule** to save the pipeline.
7.  On the Schedules page, click the play button next to the pipeline you just created to test your new scheduled pipeline on demand.
    
    ![Arrow pointing to the play button button](https://acquia.widen.net/content/yy4baaak5q/jpeg/code-studio_testing-pipeline.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=0b06mk)
    
    Code Studio creates a new merge request with the updates.