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avatar JeroenMoolenschot
JeroenMoolenschot
17 Oct 2025

Joomla! Update Notification Scheduled Task failed, exit code 5 after upgrade to Joomla 5.4.0

The Scheduled Tasks list looks like on all websites with 5.4.0 installed.

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Expected result

Should work as in Joomla 5.3.x

Actual result

When i run a test:

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the test is also not saved in the logs or Execution History

System information (as much as possible)

All my websites with 5.4.0 installed
All websites which are not updated work fine.
This happens across different hosting environments, different PHP versions, and different servers, so it doesn’t appear to be host-specific.

Additional comments

It looks like something changed in the scheduled task handling or in the update notification plugin since Joomla 5.4.0, as the issue is consistent across all environments.

avatar JeroenMoolenschot JeroenMoolenschot - open - 17 Oct 2025
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 17 Oct 2025
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avatar JeroenMoolenschot JeroenMoolenschot - change - 17 Oct 2025
Title
Joomla! Update Notification Scheduled Task failed, exit code 5 after upgrade to Joomla 5.4.0
[5.4] Joomla! Update Notification Scheduled Task failed, exit code 5 after upgrade to Joomla 5.4.0
avatar JeroenMoolenschot JeroenMoolenschot - edited - 17 Oct 2025
avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 17 Oct 2025
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avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 17 Oct 2025

Confirmed. I have that too on my site.

avatar heelc29
heelc29 - comment - 18 Oct 2025

I can confirm that, too.

Please test #46315.

avatar alikon alikon - close - 18 Oct 2025
avatar alikon alikon - change - 18 Oct 2025
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025-10-18 06:57:50
Closed_By alikon
avatar alikon
alikon - comment - 18 Oct 2025

closing as we have pr #46315 to test

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