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#43055 Joomla not finding latest update

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
5.4.6
PHP version
8.4.21
Akeeba Backup version
10.3.4

Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 21 June 2026 04:41 CDT

petekuhn
A few days ago, Joomla update showed that version 10.3.5 was available.
I always install it on a test site and check it out before putting it live. I have done that but not yet put it live.
But my live site is no longer telling me the new release is available, and there is no message on the Akeeba Control Panel.

I checked the info in Update Sites for Akeeba, and it is all good.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

For a short period of time the CDN was serving an update XML file with the wrong SHA-512 sum. No biggie, I fixed that on my end. However, because of Joomla's craptastic caching system not only would users had to wait 6+ hours or click on Search For Updates to get Joomla to fetch the new version, they would also need to clear Joomla's cache (if they were using caching on their site) for Joomla to stop serving the old data it has in its query cache despite the fact our CDN and the client site's database both agreeing on the new, correct data. I found it increasingly hard and frustrating explaining to people why Joomla is braindead and how I can't do much else on my end, so I just removed 10.3.5 from the update XML. I will release a new version next week anyway.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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