# Flox develop --stability unstable does not work

**URL:** <https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [October 30, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452 "2022-10-30T15:38:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![etorreborre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/etorreborre/32/428_2.png) [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452/1 "2022-10-30T15:38:42Z")

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The flox help says:

```auto
flox <development-command> \
           [--stability (stable|staging|unstable)] \
           [(-d|--date) <date_string>] [<args>]

```

but when I type `flox develop --stability unstable` I get  
`error: unrecognised flag '--stability'`

(I’m using flox-0.0.6-rc45).

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**Author:** ![robinbrantley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/robinbrantley/32/39_2.png) [@robinbrantley](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/robinbrantley)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452/2 "2022-10-30T16:03:45Z")

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Thank you for the bug report. It is with the engineers and we hope to have an update pushed out later this week. 🙂

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**Author:** ![limeytexan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/limeytexan/32/10_2.png) [@limeytexan](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/limeytexan)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452/3 "2022-10-30T20:39:38Z")

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I’ve fixed that part of the usage string to read as follows:

```shell
development commands:
    flox [--stability (stable|staging|unstable)] \
         [(-d|--date) <date_string>] <command> [<args>]
    ----
    flox init - initialize flox expressions for current project
    flox build - build package from current project
    flox develop - launch development shell for current project
    flox publish [--publish-to <gitURL>] [--upstream-url <gitURL>] \
                 [--copy-to <nixURI>] [--copy-from <nixURI>] \
                 [--render-path <dir>] [--key-file <file>]
         - build and publish project to flox channel
    flox run - run app from current project
    flox shell - run a shell in which the current project is available

```

You should find that `flox --stability unstable develop` doesn’t throw an error. The updated version should hit production some time tomorrow.

Of course there is still the related issue that the `--stability` flag isn’t actually changing the stability used for the subsequent `develop` invocation, but we’re working on that too and hope to have a fix out for that by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks for the bug report!

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**Author:** ![etorreborre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/etorreborre/32/428_2.png) [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452/4 "2022-10-30T20:46:42Z")

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Thanks Michael for your prompt reply and upcoming fix 🙂

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**Author:** ![robinbrantley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/robinbrantley/32/39_2.png) [@robinbrantley](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/robinbrantley)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-develop-stability-unstable-does-not-work/452/5 "2022-11-03T11:12:58Z")

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Just wrapping up thread and confirming that flox has been updated and the current version is flox-0.0.6-r49. Any issues, just let us know. 🙂