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There are no plans to ever add in any update checking, or any other call-home style functionality to Forge. Its just not something that I personally agree with, and considering that TONS of mod packs use older versions of Forge, i'd have to write in a disabling mech and then people will want to use the same code for there mods/server.. it;'s a pain Just check the page once a day, or less. We typically announce any major releases {Recommended builds}. Once we hit the stable releases it's usually non-critical updates. Anyways, there has been some work twards 1.7 on the MCP end, and we're progressing pretty good on the gradle stuff. Nothing actually useful to the end users/modders yet, but as I said in the original post, most of us are busy getting ready for Minecon WHoo! So not even any chance for a optional, as in you can choose whether or not to check for updates to change in forge.cfg and the default could be no checking...

Please add an optional update checker. I hate having to go to the downloads page whenever there might be an update.

I have two ideas to add to Minecraft Forge, 1. Add an optional update checker. 2. Add ability to change what mods are active ingame. If you agree or disagree please post below, please don't post saying if someone has already suggested either of these because that won't really lead anywhere.