Not sure why, but it's claiming that everything system-wise is up-to-date and that none of the plugins have updates available, when clearly, that is not the case looking at the screenshot below:

I'm guessing this has something to do with the difference between

php artisan october:up

(which would look for version.yaml file changes?)

and

php artisan october:update

(which would check for new code upstream?)

Thanks, that helps clear it up, thank you! I was just confused because in the docs, it simply says that

october:up - updates all installed plugins.

whereas under the #Utility commands section it has

october:update - Updates October via the Update Gateway will connect to the October gateway and update the core and all installed plugins.

so I guess the difference is (as you mentioned) october:up uses local version.yaml whereas october:update checks the gateway for updates.

Maybe that just went over my head when reading the docs.. Appreciate your response, makes sense and october:update works just fine!