Auto-updates are enabled, yet the app does not auto-update. And this is the case on two different instances. In fact it also does not update automatically from 32.0.0 to 32.0.1.

drwxr-xr-x  3 yellowtent yellowtent 4.0K Oct  2 12:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data   www-data   4.0K Oct  2 12:55 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 yellowtent yellowtent  87K Oct  1 11:19 appapi_apps.json
drwxr-xr-x  5 yellowtent yellowtent 4.0K Oct  1 11:19 app-discover-cache
-rw-r--r--  1 yellowtent yellowtent 2.8M Oct  1 11:19 apps.json
-rw-r--r--  1 yellowtent yellowtent 161K Oct  1 11:19 categories.json
-rw-r--r--  1 yellowtent yellowtent 7.2K Oct  1 11:19 discover.json

...and which broke the App Store. Revering the permission to www-data made everything work right away.

But actually many directories are affected inside the appdata_{instanceid} directory as well as users files inside the data directory.

I'm going to do a good backup and put the app in maintenance mode before I change ownership every inside the data because it feels a bit scary.

@staff Any clues on how it happened??

Healtheck error: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 172.18.18.24:80

If I disable an outdated app and try to re-enable it, it throws an error and then the whole instance breaks (cannot starts any longer). Weirdly though, several of the outdated apps are active and running fine (e.g. calendar).

I have tried to disable all outdated apps, restarted the instance but still the app store seems broken and does not update anything.

See my list of app below (and see how calendar, groupfolders etc. are out of date):

Enabled:
  - activity: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - admin_audit: 1.22.0
  - app_api: 32.0.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - circles: 32.0.0
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.16.0
  - comments: 1.22.0
  - contactsinteraction: 1.13.1
  - dav: 1.34.2
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.22.0
  - federation: 1.22.0
  - files: 2.4.0
  - files_downloadlimit: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - files_external: 1.24.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - files_reminders: 1.5.0
  - files_sharing: 1.24.0
  - files_trashbin: 1.22.0
  - files_versions: 1.25.0
  - firstrunwizard: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - logreader: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.20.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - notifications: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - oauth2: 1.20.0
  - password_policy: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - privacy: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - profile: 1.1.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.22.0
  - recommendations: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - related_resources: 3.0.0-dev.0
  - serverinfo: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - settings: 1.15.1
  - support: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - survey_client: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - systemtags: 1.22.0
  - text: 6.0.0-dev.0
  - theming: 2.7.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.21.0
  - updatenotification: 1.22.0
  - user_oidc: 7.4.0
  - user_status: 1.12.0
  - viewer: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - weather_status: 1.12.0
  - webhook_listeners: 1.3.0
  - workflowengine: 2.14.0
Disabled:
  - accessibility: 1.10.0
  - appointments: 2.4.6 (installed 2.4.6)
  - calendar: 5.5.3 (installed 5.5.3)
  - carnet: 0.25.6 (installed 0.25.6)
  - collectives: 3.1.2 (installed 3.1.2)
  - contacts: 7.3.0 (installed 7.3.0)
  - cookbook: 0.11.3 (installed 0.11.3)
  - dashboard: 7.12.0 (installed 7.1.0)
  - deck: 1.15.2 (installed 1.15.2)
  - drawio: 3.1.0 (installed 3.1.0)
  - encryption: 2.20.0 (installed 2.8.1)
  - end_to_end_encryption: 1.17.0 (installed 1.17.0)
  - event_update_notification: 2.6.1 (installed 2.6.1)
  - files_rightclick: 1.6.0 (installed 1.6.0)
  - files_videoplayer: 1.13.0
  - fileslibreofficeedit: 2.0.1 (installed 2.0.1)
  - forms: 5.1.2 (installed 5.1.2)
  - groupfolders: 19.1.3 (installed 19.1.3)
  - integration_whiteboard: 0.0.14 (installed 0.0.14)
  - mail: 5.4.0 (installed 5.4.0)
  - notes: 4.12.3 (installed 4.12.3)
  - notify_push: 1.2.0 (installed 1.2.0)
  - passwords: 2025.7.20 (installed 2025.7.20)
  - photos: 5.0.0-dev.1 (installed 5.0.0-dev.1)
  - polls: 8.4.6 (installed 8.4.6)
  - previewgenerator: 5.10.0 (installed 5.10.0)
  - quicknotes: 0.8.30 (installed 0.8.30)
  - richdocuments: 8.7.4 (installed 8.7.4)
  - richdocumentscode: 25.4.403 (installed 25.4.403)
  - sharebymail: 1.22.0 (installed 1.22.0)
  - suspicious_login: 10.0.0-dev.0 (installed 10.0.0-dev.0)
  - twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 6.0.0-dev.0
  - twofactor_totp: 14.0.0
  - user_ldap: 1.23.0 (installed 1.21.0)

Any help would be greatly appreciated at this stage. I’m ran out of ideas.

just fyi, an update for team folders to 20.1.1 has been released and fixed the group folders issue for me.

Yes. thx here too!!

Bit of an eye-opener that this self-hosted app can break in some ways from a 3rd-party API connection dependancy being unavailable.

I have rambled about Nextcloud and its shortsighted design failure to allow core functionalities as „apps“ (e.g. search!!) more often than I can count. It’s stupid and makes Nextcloud unreliable at any new release.

Bit of an eye-opener that this self-hosted app can break in some ways from a 3rd-party API connection dependancy being unavailable.

Yes I had the same thoughts. I did look a bit into it and you can apparently set a custom App Store address for example though.

Didn't do anything, so I can only assume some required API calls working again.

Bit of an eye-opener that this self-hosted app can break in some ways from a 3rd-party API connection dependancy being unavailable.

But agreed this update shouldn't have been pushed as the Cloudron policy of waiting until the 0.01 is good and wise.

@Staff what happened? Can systems be put in place to ensure this doesn't happen again?

Not entirely sure how we ended up getting updates to v32.0.0, when I thought the Cloudron policy was to wait until 0.01 or 0.02 for whole version increment stability confirmation?

Probably just a mistake. But yes, @everyone, definitely be careful with this update. Even with the now functioning app store, I have some instance which have been able to update all apps and are now working fine on NC32, while others don't see any app updates and most apps are broken, and when trying to do play around with it, it broke Nextcloud completely.