nextcloud/updater

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:arrows_counterclockwise: The updater app to keep your Nextcloud up-to-date

Stars: 51
Forks: 40
Open beginner issues: 4
Indexed issues: 87
Avg merge: 2d 19h
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: PHP
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 1, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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87 open issues indexed

[Bug]: Function curl_close() is deprecated since 8.5 Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

nextcloud/updater#781 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Updater instructs to run ./occ upgrade, but occ is not executable on standard installations Open

0. Needs triage bug low

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

nextcloud/updater#777 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Nextcloud updater failed to "Move new files in place" when the working directory is in an NFS filesystem that is under anti-malware live threat detection Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextcloud/updater#773 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Updater says it updates but does actually not. Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextcloud/updater#772 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
[Bug]: Updater Backup removes base path from file path if it matches Open

1. to develop bug feature: backups

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#771 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Updater function reports issue with data directory—should mention update directory Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

nextcloud/updater#769 · Opened Jun 7, 2026
Write permission check incorrectly fails for new directories not yet existing in current installation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

nextcloud/updater#753 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened May 8, 2026
Check for php version and display non-compatible apps Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#750 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
[Bug]: Updater does not update 32.0.5 Open

0. Needs triage bug needs info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextcloud/updater#736 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2026
[Bug]: Update failed. Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: download needs info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#735 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2026
[Bug]: backup fails during upgrade, copy() function called wrong Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextcloud/updater#728 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Feature request: allow configuring download URL order/preference in config.php Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextcloud/updater#721 · Opened Mar 22, 2026
updater: rename "backup" step (WAS BEFORE: improve order: download, maint. mode, backup (backup should be last)) Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: backups

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#691 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 24, 2025
[Bug]: Update gives 'write permissions error' Open

0. Needs triage bug needs info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextcloud/updater#689 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2025
[Bug]: Upgrade from 32.0.1 to 32.0.2 fails with "Check for write permissions" Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: writability

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#688 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2025
[Bug]: Nextcloud Updater requires write permission for python Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#685 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 28, 2025
Avoid 416 error: Handlet presence of a (previously) completed archive download Open

1. to develop bug feature: download

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextcloud/updater#671 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2025
[Bug]: Updater is interrupted right after backup. Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

nextcloud/updater#669 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2025
[Bug]: Webbased updater does not use 'localstorage.umask' settings Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#651 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
Whenever an exception occurs, remind operator that a Manual update is an option Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#640 · Opened Jul 25, 2025
[Bug]: Retry update fails at 'Downloading' with no error shown Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: download

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nextcloud/updater#635 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 29, 2025
Evaluate adding `register_shutdown_function` and/or `ignore_user_abort` for added robustness Open

0. Needs triage enhancement robustness 💪

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextcloud/updater#633 · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Could you regard a file size of downloaded nextcloud-zip-file for web updater below 256MB by easiest-way increasing compression level? Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: integrity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextcloud/updater#619 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2025
[Bug]: Backup Web interface awaits potentially long time on HTTP response, causing timeout issues with proxies Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: backups

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#615 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 27, 2025
[Bug]: Web updater breaks file permissions and causes 500 errors Open

0. Needs triage bug needs info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

nextcloud/updater#614 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2025
updater.phar: add `--include-expensive` option Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextcloud/updater#612 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 16, 2025
Optimize Backup Order and Timeout Handling in Nextcloud CLI Updater Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#609 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 14, 2025
[Bug]: Web updater fails integrity check after long download Open

0. Needs triage bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextcloud/updater#610 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 14, 2025
Validate response (e.g. status code and content type) Open

1. to develop bug good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

nextcloud/updater#599 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 10, 2025
Rewrite verifyIntegrity() to work with less memory Open

0. Needs triage enhancement feature: integrity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#598 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 22, 2025
Add note in the *Initializing* phase of both web and command-line modes about where to find the `updater.log` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextcloud/updater#597 · Opened Jan 19, 2025
Add note to web-mode in the *Initializing* phase that the command-line updater is also available Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

nextcloud/updater#596 · Opened Jan 19, 2025
[Feature] Remove old files asynchronously after update Open

0. Needs triage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#590 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 20, 2024
Refuse to run updater if `memory_limit` is below requirements Open

1. to develop enhancement feature: check for update robustness 💪

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextcloud/updater#585 · Opened Oct 12, 2024
[Bug]: Web updater broken with a 404 Open

0. Needs triage 29-feedback bug feature: moving needs info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#583 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2024
Fetch app updates prior to starting Nextcloud upgrade Open

1. to develop enhancement feature: apps management robustness 💪

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nextcloud/updater#580 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2024
add `.php-ini` and `.php-version` to expected files Open

enhancement feature: expected files hotspot: local changes

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

nextcloud/updater#575 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2024
Refuse to run the Updater if the upgrade cycle hasn't finished Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: upgrade

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextcloud/updater#567 · 1 comment · Opened May 26, 2024
The step file is getting left around after `finalize()` Open

1. to develop bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#566 · 2 comments · Opened May 26, 2024
Add hint a new Server version isn't being offered likely due to not meeting PHP requirements Open

1. to develop enhancement feature: check for update papercut

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextcloud/updater#560 · Opened May 17, 2024
Review clarity surrounding web UI "retry" versus refresh Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#552 · Opened Apr 28, 2024
Create a bug reporting template for Updater Open

1. to develop enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextcloud/updater#548 · Opened Apr 22, 2024
Upgrade 26>27 : Yet another "Step 6 is currently in process. Please reload this page later." Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: deletion feature: extraction hotspot: shipped.json needs review

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextcloud/updater#547 · 11 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2024
Some things to document Open

1. to develop overview

nextcloud/updater#546 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 10, 2024
Space out buttons "Open changelog" and "Start update" Open

1. to develop design enhancement feature: upgrade good first issue mode: web

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

nextcloud/updater#544 · Opened Apr 7, 2024
value to enable/disable upgrade-backup in config.php for updater.phar and web-updater Open

0. Needs triage enhancement feature: backups

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextcloud/updater#549 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 1, 2024
[Bug]: Web-based updater does not provide relevant error info after failure Open

0. Needs triage bug feature: backups mode: web needs info

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#536 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2024
Add additional logging to ease troubleshooting Open

enhancement robustness 💪

nextcloud/updater#532 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 1, 2024
Improve user experience of the Updater by changing order of operations (WIP/RFC) Open

enhancement overview Performance 🚀 UX🙂

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextcloud/updater#525 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 9, 2024
Error reporting for filesystem matters Open

enhancement feature: backups feature: deletion feature: download feature: extraction feature: integrity feature: moving overview robustness 💪 UX🙂

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextcloud/updater#524 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2024

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