From what I’ve read, I guess this feature was removed? Now there’s no click-to-update option through the Admin UI? Not sure how far behind I am, as to how recent that is, or if it can somehow be re-enabled. It was one of my favorite things about Discourse from an admin point of view. The ability to…

It’s showing up now after the re-entering of those lines and rebuilding the app. I guess they were malformed somehow before. [image] Thank you for the help!

[image] Still here on my instance. What do you see if you go to /admin/update/?

OK. I was used to seeing it on the right, not in the menu. [image] But it’s also not in my menu on the left. /admin/update gives me… [image] Not sure what I did to end up here. I’ll run the rebuild and see if that solves it.

Do you still have GitHub - discourse/docker_manager: Plugin for use with discourse docker image · GitHub in your app.yml file?

[image] pmusaraj: Do you still have GitHub - discourse/docker_manager: Plugin for use with discourse docker image in your app.yml file? Thanks, but it’s in there. [image] I’m wondering if I’m having a spacing issue or something with some lines of the commands. Is that a thing, where the nu…

The spacing looks OK. I’ll check my self-hosted site to see if a recent change caused a regression.

I went into the post referenced… [image] Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting warning This guide assumes that you have a self-hosted standard installation. We only support the standard method of install here, so these instructions assume you have…

I still see the sidebar button after a rebuild: [CleanShot 2026-01-05 at 15.30.17@2x] Also… are you on the stable track by any chance?

Does that not update the docker version? I noticed this today when running a rake… WARNING: Docker version 24.0.2 depreciated, recommend upgrade to 24.0.7 or newer But the /admin/update area is showing… Docker_manager Dec 18, 2025 f1b3d34c Up to date Up to date or needs upgrade?

Docker and docker manager are two different things, and You need to do periodic maintenance on the host server too. On Ubuntu/Debian based systems it is as simple as apt update apt full-upgrade And optionally a reboot to ensure that new kernel updates are applied.

Updates no longer in the Admin UI?

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DavidO (David) January 7, 2026, 3:31pm 12

apt update
apt full-upgrade

You rock! Thank you very much. TIL.

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