diff --git a/docarray/__init__.py b/docarray/__init__.py
index c8f62c6fbe8..2cba2695129 100644
--- a/docarray/__init__.py
+++ b/docarray/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from .array import DocumentArray
 from .dataclasses import dataclass, field
 
-if 'DA_NO_RICH_HANDLER' not in os.environ:
+if 'DA_RICH_HANDLER' in os.environ:
     from rich.traceback import install
 
     install()
diff --git a/docarray/helper.py b/docarray/helper.py
index 865f19ff80d..30c074ae833 100644
--- a/docarray/helper.py
+++ b/docarray/helper.py
@@ -3,20 +3,9 @@
 import pathlib
 import random
 import sys
-import threading
 import uuid
 import warnings
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Sequence, Tuple
-from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
-
-import pkg_resources
-from rich import print
-from rich.panel import Panel
-
-ALLOWED_PROTOCOLS = {'pickle', 'protobuf', 'protobuf-array', 'pickle-array'}
-ALLOWED_COMPRESSIONS = {'lz4', 'bz2', 'lzma', 'zlib', 'gzip'}
-
 
 __resources_path__ = os.path.join(
     os.path.dirname(
@@ -402,6 +391,9 @@ def protocol_and_compress_from_file_path(
     (None, gzip)
     """
 
+    ALLOWED_PROTOCOLS = {'pickle', 'protobuf', 'protobuf-array', 'pickle-array'}
+    ALLOWED_COMPRESSIONS = {'lz4', 'bz2', 'lzma', 'zlib', 'gzip'}
+
     protocol = default_protocol
     compress = default_compress
 
@@ -449,47 +441,3 @@ def filter_dict(d: Dict) -> Dict:
     :return: filtered dict
     """
     return dict(filter(lambda item: item[1] is not None, d.items()))
-
-
-def _version_check(package: str = None, github_repo: str = None):
-    try:
-        if not package:
-            package = vars(sys.modules[__name__])['__package__']
-        if not github_repo:
-            github_repo = package
-
-        cur_ver = LooseVersion(pkg_resources.get_distribution(package).version)
-        req = Request(
-            f'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{package}/json',
-            headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'},
-        )
-        with urlopen(
-            req, timeout=1
-        ) as resp:  # 'with' is important to close the resource after use
-            j = json.load(resp)
-            releases = j.get('releases', {})
-            latest_release_ver = list(
-                sorted(LooseVersion(v) for v in releases.keys() if '.dev' not in v)
-            )[-1]
-            if cur_ver < latest_release_ver:
-                print(
-                    Panel(
-                        f'You are using [b]{package} {cur_ver}[/b], but [bold green]{latest_release_ver}[/] is available. '
-                        f'You may upgrade it via [b]pip install -U {package}[/b]. [link=https://github.com/jina-ai/{github_repo}/releases]Read Changelog here[/link].',
-                        title=':new: New version available!',
-                        width=50,
-                    )
-                )
-    except Exception:
-        # no network, too slow, PyPi is down
-        pass
-
-
-def is_latest_version(package: str = None, github_repo: str = None) -> None:
-    """Check if there is a latest version from Pypi, set env `NO_VERSION_CHECK` to disable it.
-
-    :param package: package name if none auto-detected
-    :param github_repo: repo name that contains CHANGELOG if none then the same as package name
-    """
-
-    threading.Thread(target=_version_check, args=(package, github_repo)).start()