# release_requires_prereleases

> **Function** in `deepagents_code`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/deepagents-code/update_check/release_requires_prereleases)

Return whether installing `version` needs uv pre-release admission.

Boolean view over `release_prerelease_pins`, kept for display-only callers
that only decide *whether* to show a pre-release-aware upgrade hint, not
which pins to constrain. `True` iff the release mandates at least one exact
pre-release dependency.

## Signature

```python
release_requires_prereleases(
    version: str | None,
    *,
    bypass_cache: bool = False,
) -> bool
```

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| `version` | `str \| None` | Yes | `deepagents-code` version to inspect. |
| `bypass_cache` | `bool` | No | Skip cached release metadata and fetch PyPI directly. (default: `False`) |

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[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/blob/e14e0adcbe78565ed3650e7f24b2a775d5437d25/libs/code/deepagents_code/update_check.py#L714)