I am always getting this now. I did a rebuild of the app and it still appears.
Not critical I suppose, just new, and annoying to some extent.
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Users reported a bug where the âUpdates are availableâ message appears on the admin dashboard even when no updates are actually neededâor without specifying which themes or components require updates. Andro and tobiaseigen confirmed the issue after updating Discourse core, noting that while theme components like âSidebar Theme Toggleâ needed manual updates, the admin message didnât list them as it used to. packman and tobiaseigen reproduced the issue, finding that the warning only disappeared after updating all pending theme componentsâbut the message never clarified which ones were affected. The issue appears to stem from recent changes to the admin notice system. ted acknowledged the bug and confirmed a fix has been merged (PR #27916), restoring proper display of which themes or components need updating. The bug is now tagged as âfixedâ.
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Iâve noticed the same. If you go to Themes and Components youâll probably find that there updates required. In the past this advice listed the affected themes and components below the message but that seems to have been lost in a recent update.
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Ah. Indeed, that fixes it. Thanks.
But I think the message lacking the details is some kind of bug.
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I saw this today too, also after updating core discourse.
Looking at the theme component list and filtering by updates available showed me which one needed updating. The âSidebar Theme Toggleâ theme component needed updating, and selecting the circular arrows glyph updated it. The message on the admin landing page went away.
I donât know why this particular theme component was not successfully being updated when core discourse is updated, and did not see anything in the log.
I also donât know why the messaging didnât list the theme component specifically.
The message probably went away because you had no more updates needed. I updated that component but the message was still there because I had a theme update still needed. The message didnât display what needed updating like it used to.
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Do you recall what theme component that was? Is this happening now for any theme components needing updating?
I just checked on one of my sites and PDF Previews has an update available, but the advice on the admin landing page does not specify the theme, just like my screenshot above.
I donât recall what it was, other than it was a theme that needed updating, not a theme component.
Iâm seeing the warning right nowâŚ
When I go to look I see that the following theme components have updates availableâŚ
- Custom Header Links
- Dark-Light Toggle
- Sidebar Theme Toggle
- discourse-search-banner
I updated each one in turn, returning to the dashboard and pressing Refresh after each update. The warning above only went away after the last component had been upgraded.
It doesnât feel like itâs a specific theme component and/or theme thatâs doing this. It seems like the warning has just stopped displaying which theme/component(s) need to be updated.
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Cool! Thanks for sharing your repro. Weâll look into it.
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Hello! 
Thanks for reporting this. We recently made some changes to the admin notice system, and this ended up breaking this particular message. I just merged a fix for this. 
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