Why does n8n always show [DEV] in the title even after global installation?

jabbson · September 11, 2025, 5:44pm

Please see these questions and the answers:

it appears both topics talk about changing a variable N8N_RELEASE_TYPE, which I found i a couple of places in the repository, for instance:

github.com/n8n-io/n8n

docker/images/n8n/Dockerfile

master


      
              mkdir -p /launcher-bin; \
              tar xzf task-runner-launcher-${LAUNCHER_VERSION}-linux-${ARCH_NAME}.tar.gz -C /launcher-bin; \
              cd / && rm -rf /launcher-temp
          
          # ==============================================================================
          # STAGE 4: Final Runtime Image
          # ==============================================================================
          FROM system-deps AS runtime
          
          ARG N8N_VERSION
          ARG N8N_RELEASE_TYPE=dev
          ENV NODE_ENV=production
          ENV N8N_RELEASE_TYPE=${N8N_RELEASE_TYPE}
          ENV NODE_ICU_DATA=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/full-icu
          ENV SHELL=/bin/sh
          
          WORKDIR /home/node
          
          COPY --from=app-artifact-processor /app /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n
          COPY --from=launcher-downloader /launcher-bin/* /usr/local/bin/
          COPY docker/images/n8n/docker-entrypoint.sh /