Upgrading the chectl management tool

This section describes how to upgrade the chectl management tool.

Prerequisites

Procedure

Run the following command in the terminal to update chectl to the latest version.
```
# chectl update
```
The command updates chectl based on its current channel.

Two update channels are available for chectl: stable and next.

stable is for the latest released version of Eclipse Che.
next is updated after each activity in the main branch of the chectl repository.

To move to a different channel, start the update with the name of the channel as an optional argument.

# chectl update [next|stable]

Additional resources