# Symbolic Links suddenly stopped (from version v0.56.0)
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/symbolic-links-suddenly-stopped-from-version-v0-56-0/19878
**Category:** support
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/symbolic-links-suddenly-stopped-from-version-v0-56-0/19878 "2019-07-29T13:34:33Z")
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### Author:  [@azdev](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/azdev)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/symbolic-links-suddenly-stopped-from-version-v0-56-0/19878/1 "2019-07-29T13:34:33Z")
Hi there,
I’ve recently upgrades my Hugo, however it has been giving me problems with symbolic links:
> \: error calling Get: symlinks not allowed in this filesystem
My symlink is under themes/mytheme/assets/js/vendors/… (linking to node\_modules/…)
It seems that these errors only occur from version [v0.56.0](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.56.0) onwards.
For now I’ve downgraded to 0.55 but I’d hate to miss out on future updates.
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### Author:  [@davidsneighbour](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/davidsneighbour)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/symbolic-links-suddenly-stopped-from-version-v0-56-0/19878/2 "2019-07-29T15:05:56Z")
Have a deeper look into `modules` - very new feature in v0.56.0 which mentions symlinks. That might be the reason hugo don’t understands your links anymore.
In my own site symbolic links never worked 😉 so good for you, hehe.
> **[Hugo Modules](https://gohugo.io/hugo-modules/)**
>
> How to use Hugo Modules.
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/symbolic-links-suddenly-stopped-from-version-v0-56-0/19878/3 "2019-07-29T16:48:05Z")
See [https://gohugo.io/news/0.56.0-relnotes#notes](https://gohugo.io/news/0.56.0-relnotes#notes)
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/symbolic-links-suddenly-stopped-from-version-v0-56-0/19878/4 "2019-07-29T16:49:57Z")
The short version:
- The overall symlink support is much improved
- But it’s more restrictive for themes (for security and … practial reason; symlinks are hard to reason about, and even harder when you reason about some other person’s symlinks).
- You now have a powerful mounts feature that can do most of what the old symlinks hacks can do.