diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fe8e920e2d..577f3311b8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
   The `rover template` commands now include four more languages.
 
+- **Allow skip checking new versions of rover - @tsing, #1394**
+
+  The checking can be skipped by the global `--skip-update` flag.
+
 ## 🐛 Fixes
 
 - **Properly report errors when the first `rover dev` process starts up - @EverlastingBugstopper, #1342**
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 71a8627944..14ca74c3bd 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ pub struct Rover {
     )]
     client_timeout: ClientTimeout,
 
+    /// Skip checking for newer versions of rover.
+    #[clap(long = "skip-update", global = true)]
+    skip_update: bool,
+
     #[clap(skip)]
     #[serde(skip_serializing)]
     env_store: LazyCell<RoverEnv>,
@@ -172,10 +176,10 @@ impl Rover {
         // before running any commands, we check if rover is up to date
         // this only happens once a day automatically
         // we skip this check for the `rover update` commands, since they
-        // do their own checks
-
+        // do their own checks.
+        // the check is also skipped if the `--skip-update` flag is passed.
         if let Command::Update(_) = &self.command { /* skip check */
-        } else {
+        } else if !self.skip_update {
             let config = self.get_rover_config();
             if let Ok(config) = config {
                 let _ = version::check_for_update(config, false, self.get_reqwest_client()?);