[#39982] - [4.2.8] Removing one association from an article remove all language associations
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- 29 Aug 2026
- Medium
- Build: 4.2-dev
- # 39982
Steps to reproduce the issue
Create an multilingual site with minimum 3 languages.
Create 3 articles and associate all languages.
Remove one association.
Expected result
Only the selected association should be removed.
Actual result
All associations for the selected article is removed.
System information (as much as possible)
Database Type mysql
Database Version 8.0.29-21
PHP Version 8.0.24
Joomla! Version Joomla! 4.2.8 Stable [ Uaminifu ] 16-February-2023 15:00 GMT
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If you check the video clip, you can see I remove the Australian language, But as a bonus it remove the Swedish too from the Australian for no reason.
Can't confirm.
Test on a site having 30+ Languages. Click "Clear" on one Association and save didn't touch all other Associations of the saved Article.
System Information
Setting Value
Joomla! Version Joomla! 6.1.0 Stable [ Nyota ] 14-April-2026 16:00 UTC
Joomla Backward Compatibility Plugin Disabled
PHP Version 8.3.24
PHP Built On Linux lamp422.cloudaccess.net 5.14.0-503.31.1.el9_5.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 13 06:50:51 EDT 2025 x86_64
Database Type mysql
Database Version 10.11.11-MariaDB-cll-lve
Database Collation utf8mb3_general_ci
Database Connection Collation utf8mb4_general_ci
Database Connection Encryption None
Database Server Supports Connection Encryption No
Web Server Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface litespeed
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0
@krishnagandhicode just came across this #39982 is it the same thing as fixed here?
yes @brianteeman this is around the same area as my PR (#48208), but what I fixed there was the association breaking for categories. This one is reported for articles and Articles are not broken.
going by the video in the desc: the three articles are one group, not three pairs. Before the save the group is English + Australian + Swedish. Removing Australian from the English article and saving leaves the group as English + Swedish, and the Australian article is simply no longer in it.
So it has not separately lost its link to Swedish. It has left the group, and Swedish was only ever in that group. English and Swedish are still associated afterwards, as the association column confirms.
So I believe this is working as designed, and the issue can/should be closed.
CSGoat0
- | Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2026-08-29 14:44:11 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | CSGoat0 |
@Flowman strange. Cannot be that (by mistake) you selected all 3 associations?