# What's the best practice to update Sage?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/whats-the-best-practice-to-update-sage/11091
**Category:** sage
**Tags:** sage9
**Created:** 2017-12-08T06:07:39Z
**Posts:** 2
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## Post 2 by @ben — 2017-12-08T06:35:19Z

> [@Keeping Sage Updated](https://discourse.roots.io/t/keeping-sage-updated/10587/2):
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> This has come up a lot lately. Sage is a “starter” theme, not a theme framework or parent theme. It is designed to be modified, up to and including its core files, to build an effective and efficient custom theme for your site. If a new feature in a Sage update is absolutely vital to your site, then yes it can be challenging to merge changes from the main repository, but given how bare-bones Sage is, this is a rare occurrence. Sage doesn’t have a ton of theme functionality out of the gate; you …

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