All about MT5 updates.

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This topic will be used to bring together all information about MT5 updates process. This is NOT for chitchat.

  1. To avoid undesirable update you need to work with account(s) from a BROKER. Using their server(s) and/or website to get one.
  2. On the FIRST installation of MT5, from a mt5setup.exe you got from a broker site, it's very probable you will get the last BETA update. But after that you will get only official release updates.
  3. MetaQuotes-Demo is NOT for testing your strategy or to be used as a demo account for trading practice. It's for TECHNICAL testing and using it, you have a very great chance to get a beta update.
  4. When an official update is available, it will be pushed automatically, you will be notified about and invited to restart the MT5 Terminal.
  5. The last official update is always the last one announced on this forum. It's also announced on the this page of metatrader5.com website.
  6. ALL builds with a number higher than the last official release are BETA builds.

If you don't want to be a beta-tester, and so you don't want to receive beta-build :

  • NEVER connect to MetaQuotes-Demo server.
  • NEVER use MT5 Terminal Help menu=>Check for Updates=>Last Beta Version.
    What's new in MetaTrader 5
    What's new in MetaTrader 5
    • www.metatrader5.com
    In this version, we have improved ONNX support in MQL5. Models now run significantly faster on GPUs with CUDA support.
     

    In case you got an BETA update, for whatever reason, and you want to move to the last official release :

    • A Telegram channel has been created, you will always find there the last official release needed exe files.
    • MT5 Terminal is available in several versions according to your CPU capabilities. You can check which version you have to use in the Journal log, at the first entries after you started MT5.

    Here my version is AVX2, an other possibility is X64

    • With this information you will know which zip file to download.


    • You then just have to replace your current exe files with the ones from the Zip. If you don't know how to do, then doing this operation is probably not a good idea.

    After MT5 is restarted, you will have the last official release.

    If you don't want to get beta-build updates again :

    • NEVER connect to MetaQuotes-Demo server.
    • NEVER use MT5 Terminal Help menu=>Check for Updates=>Last Beta Version.
    MT5 release exe files
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    MT5 Build 5430 AVX2 exe files.
     

    For people without access to Telegram, the same files can be found on Forge.

    https://forge.mql5.io/angevoyageur/MT5-Last-Official-Release/releases

    MT5-Last-Official-Release
    MT5-Last-Official-Release
    • angevoyageur
    • forge.mql5.io
    Provide the executable files to downgrade to the last official release of MT5. Useful after an unexpected update to a beta.
     
    For Mac or Linux, it's the SAME as for Windows. You need to download the exe files and find on your Mac/Linux system where the original exe files are stored and replace them.
     
    • All updates are automatic. 
    • While it's technically possible to stop automatic update, we don't recommend it and information how to do it will not be provided here.
    • When you receive an update a popup window announcing it is displayed. 


    If you click on "Later" button, and keep MT5 open, you will continue to work with the current build you had. As soon as you close MT5 platform, when you start it again, the announced update will be installed again.

     
    Alain Verleyen #:
    For Mac or Linux, it's the SAME as for Windows. You need to download the exe files and find on your Mac/Linux system where the original exe files are stored and replace them.
    Except Mac doesnt use exe files so they're of no use to Mac users. For Mac is .dll or .dmg files. 
     
    Edward Fabian Ramirez Reyes #:
    Except Mac doesnt use exe files so they're of no use to Mac users. For Mac is .dll or .dmg files. 

    No. MT5 is using exe files, they are executed and working through Wine (or something equivalent like Bottles).

     
    Alain Verleyen #:
    You then just have to replace your current exe files with the ones from the Zip. If you don't know how to do, then doing this operation is probably not a good idea.

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    @Alain Verleyen, thank you so much for your clue!!


    I do use Metatrader5 via Linux (Arch based system) and just changing the files for this older build 5430 x64, it opened and worked flawless!!


    Thank you so much again! =)

     

    @Alain Verleyen


    Hi

    A newer stable release of MT5 build 5572 is out now. would you please add it to your Telegram and Forge source?


    Thank you

     
    M__ AT #:

    @Alain Verleyen


    Hi

    A newer stable release of MT5 build 5572 is out now. would you please add it to your Telegram and Forge source?


    Thank you

    Not planned. This build is using Blend2D engine, and is not universally stable enough to be recorded.
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