Just as an update,

For 2 hours starting at 9AM EST CA didn't work. Kudos to @EDACerton for recognizing the issue and fixing the problematic template.

I didn't catch this at the time because I was working on CA's code until ~3am and when I woke up the problem was already resolved.

Just responding now because during the investigation of why did this happen and how to prevent it going forward in the backend I found bug that this outage triggered that was classified under "Drop everything and fix this immediately" since technically the outage should have been impossible and the code did catch everything from 5:37PM 9/18 until 9A today when the circumstances changed and at that point even though CA went down, it still shouldn't have happened.

That issue has now been very much closed.

In other news, CA has performance issues when Connect is installed. This performance problem is also a very high priority. I believe that Connect will soon have an update (if it hasn't already) that will fix this problem, but CA itself will also have an update either tonight or tomorrow that will also resolve it.

Part of the problem with the performance when Connect was installed is that it was also hit and miss as to whether the user would be affected, and if they were affected then the performance might be perfect one day, and in the toilet the next. (For myself, running 7.2 internal betas, I'd only see it after an initial OS update for a day and it would then disappear completely)

Another part of CA's next release is another performance optimization which is completely unrelated to the Connect issue (and was coded prior to that happening) which results in CA's searching / browsing feeling like its ~2x faster than before. There's also further improvements to the "home" page which were implemented for the Connect problem, but have the added bonus of making Home better for everybody, especially mobile users regardless of the OS version they are running.

Further revamps for performance are coming, but the current ones are sufficient to get CA back running normally when Connect is installed so this is a priority release. The remainder can wait for a bit. There's also a big fix to how searches work and preventing authors / maintainers from being able to "game" searches for better visibility of their apps.

Skinning improvements and more.

And while I'm not going to specify what the road map is on CA, I'm extremely excited for what we have planned and are starting to make the necessary infrastructure changes in CA so that they can be supported. A number of items that were in my "this would be great, but its actually a pipe dream and not feasible or not even possible" have now been moved to the planning / pre-development stage". Long road ahead, but I think a year from now (sooner for some other items) you'll be shocked at just what CA will have in its feature set.

Either way, kudos to @EDACerton - buy him a beer if he drinks, and if he doesn't then as the old adage goes "you can't trust anyone who doesn't drink". And if you have performance issues with CA, look for the update tonight / tomorrow.

Community Applications is broken for me after the latest update; the Apps tab just displays a blank screen.

OS version: 6.12.15

Plugin Version: 2025.09.23 

PHP Log is showing the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function file_put_contents_atomic() in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php:74

Stack trace:

#0 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php(885): ca_plugin('version', '/var/log/plugin...')

#1 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php(92): debug('Dropping attrib...')

#2 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(715) : eval()'d code(109): dropAttributeCache()

#3 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(715): eval()

#4 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/template.php(82): require_once('/usr/local/emht...')

#5 {main}

thrown in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php on line 74

Edited September 23, 2025Sep 23 by dabears

Blank screen after updating to 2025.09.23

Same issue here as dabears and Seraphys,

Blank Apps page after updating.

Same blank screen here as the others. I'm on 6.12.15.

Does anyone know the link of the file to use to manually install the previous version?

I'm also experiencing the same issue as the others have mentioned.

4 hours ago, dabears said:

Community Applications is broken for me after the latest update; the Apps tab just displays a blank screen.

OS version: 6.12.15

Plugin Version: 2025.09.23 

PHP Log is showing the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function file_put_contents_atomic() in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php:74

Stack trace:

#0 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php(885): ca_plugin('version', '/var/log/plugin...')

#1 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php(92): debug('Dropping attrib...')

#2 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(715) : eval()'d code(109): dropAttributeCache()

#3 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(715): eval()

#4 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/template.php(82): require_once('/usr/local/emht...')

#5 {main}

thrown in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php on line 74

4 hours ago, Seraphys said:

Blank screen after updating to 2025.09.23

3 hours ago, Headword said:

Same issue here as dabears and Seraphys,

Blank Apps page after updating.

2 hours ago, kfonda said:

Same blank screen here as the others. I'm on 6.12.15.

Does anyone know the link of the file to use to manually install the previous version?

I've figured out how to revert the CA back to a previous version.

At first, I removed the CA plugin in the plugin tab. I tried reinstalling CA in the Apps tab and it didn't work. I was getting this error:

plugin: run failed: 'upgradepkg --install-new' returned 127

Then I found a fix for this in another thread (do this in terminal):

cp /sbin/upgradepkg-  /sbin/upgradepkg

I went back to the Apps tab, clicked Install and it installed an older version of CA. (If it doesn't work, try updating your other plugins first, before installing CA)

Hope this helps!

Edit: The above might be an issue related to my own server and not yours.

Here's a link to the CA plugin that you can try in the Install Plugin tab in Plugins:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg

Clicking into it shows: version "2024.12.14"

Edited September 24, 2025Sep 24 by kalfun

Hello!

Just throwing in my experience. On version 2025.09.23, from my phone, I don't get a blank screen, but every time I scroll down on mobile in any of the pages within Community Applications, the page refreshes/reloads. Same behavior in Vivaldi, Brave, and Firefox.

Hello,

version 2025.09.23 seems to be broken on Unraid 6.12.15. The screen is just empty.

4 hours ago, Seraphys said:

Blank screen after updating to 2025.09.23

Same.

2 minutes ago, kalfun said:

I was then able to update all my plugins without a problem. I went back to the Apps tab, clicked Install and it installed an older version of CA.

Hope this helps!

Thanks. I think I'll wait for an official fix, though.

7 hours ago, avidenic said:

Hello,

version 2025.09.23 seems to be broken on Unraid 6.12.15. The screen is just empty.

Same. I can confirm this same behavior on 6.12.13 as well.

8 hours ago, RinkyDinky said:

Hello!

Just throwing in my experience. On version 2025.09.23, from my phone, I don't get a blank screen, but every time I scroll down on mobile in any of the pages within Community Applications, the page refreshes/reloads. Same behavior in Vivaldi, Brave, and Firefox.

Same here.

20 hours ago, dabears said:

Community Applications is broken for me after the latest update; the Apps tab just displays a blank screen.

OS version: 6.12.15

Plugin Version: 2025.09.23 

PHP Log is showing the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function file_put_contents_atomic() in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php:74

Stack trace:

#0 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php(885): ca_plugin('version', '/var/log/plugin...')

#1 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php(92): debug('Dropping attrib...')

#2 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(715) : eval()'d code(109): dropAttributeCache()

#3 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(715): eval()

#4 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/template.php(82): require_once('/usr/local/emht...')

#5 {main}

thrown in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php on line 74

Same issue here. Dug through the github repo and it looks like the problem was added as part of commit fd16657.

For a really quick fix, modify /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/community.applications/include/helpers.php, changing dontCache = false to dontCache = true on line 30.

*** 27,33 ****
  ########################################
  # Sanitize output from plugin function #
  ########################################
! function ca_plugin($method, $plugin_file = '',$dontCache = false) {
    global $caPaths;
    static $attributeCache = [];
    static $PLUGIN_METHODS = ['dump', 'changes', 'alert', 'validate', 'check', 'checkall', 'update', 'remove', 'install', 'attributes'];
--- 27,33 ----
  ########################################
  # Sanitize output from plugin function #
  ########################################
! function ca_plugin($method, $plugin_file = '',$dontCache = true) {
    global $caPaths;
    static $attributeCache = [];
    static $PLUGIN_METHODS = ['dump', 'changes', 'alert', 'validate', 'check', 'checkall', 'update', 'remove', 'install', 'attributes'];

I have no idea what this could break, so use at your own risk.

Is it possible to better search the community apps store?

eg:
title=*linux*

To limit search to title rather than descriptions etc

Task at hand is to find any existing LINUX containers such as "ubuntu server' etc.

Edited September 24, 2025Sep 24 by dopeytree

3 hours ago, dopeytree said:

Task at hand is to find any existing LINUX containers such as "ubuntu server' etc.

That would depend on the template authors to include that keyword, which is quite unlikely.

Better example is 'ubuntu' which brings up every container description that contains 'ubuntu' when one might be looking for titles only.

Edited September 24, 2025Sep 24 by dopeytree

Same issue here on 6.12.11
blank white screen.

Update just now should fix the compatibiity issues. I only tested down to 7.1.4

23 hours ago, RinkyDinky said:

Hello!

Just throwing in my experience. On version 2025.09.23, from my phone, I don't get a blank screen, but every time I scroll down on mobile in any of the pages within Community Applications, the page refreshes/reloads. Same behavior in Vivaldi, Brave, and Firefox.

Browser is triggering a resize event. Updating in a sec

2 hours ago, Squid said:

Browser is triggering a resize event. Updating in a sec

Fixed on mobile, thank you!

Is there another thread for feature requests or do we post those here?

There are a bunch of 'passive income' templates being added to the CA store (mainly from one person, using affiliate links for the app support) and while I'm not here to discuss the validity of these apps, they are pretty clearly a cashgrab and most likely a scam to the detriment of those that install them.

If these templates are to be allowed in the CA store, then can we get options to block templates or to block publishers from view? A voting system for templates would be great, too, so the community can voice their opinion on the app listings (rather than folks spending hours on the forums).

7 minutes ago, nedpool said:

Is there another thread for feature requests

Feature Requests

Anybody else here lost their pinned apps with the recent updates? I just noticed my "pinned apps" menu item is greyed out. Poking around a bit, I found pinned_appsV2.json (where pins clearly are to be stored) containing just [] (JSON for empty array).

Checking my last flash backup (made yesterday, before update to 7.2.0-beta3), the pins are there in pinned_appsV2.json but clearly PHP serialize()d. I also just checked my previous flash backup (made on 6 September) and the file was valid JSON there.

I did some digging (being PHP developer myself) and I think it might be connected to the changes in version 2025.09.24 – writing JSON file is reverted to serialize() there (via $caPaths['humanReadable'] being false). But the pinned apps fix in "pre-install script" seems to expect just JSON encoding. So I guess what happened is that once it got applied on CA update, it couldn't parse the serialized file so just the empty array was written to my pins file.

(I don't know Unraid innards all that well, so take my findings with a grain of salt.)

Well that was fast. Fixed in 2025.09.26. Thanks @Squid !

I am trying to get the official Tailscale plugin working on my Unraid server. However, whenever I install it, I am unable to load the Community Applications tab. I've tried to access it via my local IP, my Tailscale IP, and my Tailscale URL. Has anyone else encountered this problem or know how to fix it?

2 hours ago, saxnviolence said:

I am trying to get the official Tailscale plugin working on my Unraid server. However, whenever I install it, I am unable to load the Community Applications tab. I've tried to access it via my local IP, my Tailscale IP, and my Tailscale URL. Has anyone else encountered this problem or know how to fix it?

Possible a DNS error? in tailscale settings on server try toggling use DNS: off

Edited October 2, 2025Oct 2 by dopeytree