Joomla! Issue Tracker | Joomla! CMS #47853 - Duplicate and Wrong Version Entries in Action Logs After Automatic Joomla Update

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Build: 5.4-dev
# 47853

aboarken
28 May 2026

What happened?

When automatic updates is enabled in Joomla, the Action Logs record the Joomla core update twice after the update process completes.

Joomla Version Before Update: 6.1.0
Joomla Version After Update: 6.1.1
Update Method: Automatic Update enabled
User: admin

After Joomla automatically updated from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1, the Action Logs displayed the following entry twice:

User admin updated Joomla from Unknown to 6.1.1
User admin updated Joomla from Unknown to 6.1.1

Both entries were logged at the same time.

Version

6.1

Expected result

Only one update log entry should be created for a single Joomla update process.

Additionally, the previous version should correctly display as:

from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1
instead of:
from Unknown to 6.1.1

Actual result

Duplicate log entries are created.
Previous Joomla version is displayed as "Unknown".

System Information

Joomla! Version: Joomla! 6.1.1 Stable [ Nyota ] 26-May-2026 16:00 UTC
PHP Version: 8.4.19
Database Type: mysql
Database Version: 10.6.24-MariaDB-cll-lve

Additional Comments

This happened during an automatic Joomla core update with no manual intervention.

aboarken - open - 28 May 2026

joomla-cms-bot - change - 28 May 2026

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joomla-cms-bot - labeled - 28 May 2026

alikon - comment - 29 May 2026

this doesn't happen for me

i only see one row

aboarken - comment - 29 May 2026

Hello @alikon, actually this was shown on 18 sites. But the update of sites action logs was different from yours. Your recommendations please.

alikon - comment - 1 Jun 2026

can you check what has been logged on administrator/log/joomla_update.php ?

aboarken - comment - 3 Jun 2026

Hello @alikon,

I found this only:

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#Date: 2026-05-26 16:19:47 UTC
#Software: Joomla! 6.1.0 Stable [ Nyota ] 14-April-2026 16:00 UTC

#Fields: datetime priority clientip category message
2026-05-26T16:19:47+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update COM_JOOMLAUPDATE_UPDATE_LOG_URL
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Finalising installation.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Finalising installation.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Finalising installation.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Start of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Start of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update The current database version (schema) is 6.1.0-2026-03-13.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update The current database version (schema) is 6.1.0-2026-03-13.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update End of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update End of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Uninstalling extensions
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Uninstalling extensions
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Deleting removed files and folders.
2026-05-26T16:19:57+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Deleting removed files and folders.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Finalising installation.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Finalising installation.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Finalising installation.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Start of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Start of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update The current database version (schema) is 6.1.0-2026-03-13.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update The current database version (schema) is 6.1.0-2026-03-13.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update End of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update End of SQL updates.
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Uninstalling extensions
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Uninstalling extensions
2026-05-26T16:21:16+00:00 INFO 50.63.0.97 update Deleting removed files and folders.