Currently unable to access admin page

Software Support
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Hi, we currently aren’t able to open the site admin page in any of our instances. The all were upgraded to ojs 3.5.0.3

There’s warnings:

[20-Feb-2026 08:55:51] WARNING: [pool www] child 20 said into stderr: "[20-Feb-2026 08:55:51 Europe/Vienna] Failed t │
│ o retrieve the latest version info: cURL error 28: Failed to connect to pkp.sfu.ca port 443 after 130967 ms: Could not connect to server (see https │
│ ://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/xml/ojs-version.xml"

We have already configured:

show_upgrade_warning = Off
enable_beacon = Off
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now the file is accessible again and I get back to the admin pages. Though I’d really like to remove the dependency on this request. Is there an option?

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Hi @cager,

Currently not – the “current version” XML is fetched from https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/xml/ojs-version.xml even if both of those options are disabled; with the enable_beacon turned off, no information about the server is sent upstream in the process, and without show_upgrade_warning, nothing is presented to the UI if it’s not the latest.

The interaction is kicked off in lib/pkp/pages/admin/AdminHandler.php around line 131:

// Interact with the beacon (if enabled) and determine if a new version exists
$latestVersion = VersionCheck::checkIfNewVersionExists();

The descriptor is cached for up to a year (!).

Note that trying to stop OJS from fetching outside content will most notably cause the Plugin Gallery to stop working; it needs to get the list of plugins periodically (if I remember right, it’s cached for a day).

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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I see, I must have opened the admin pages at the unluckiest moment :slight_smile:

I’m just surprised that it did lock me out during the time the file was unreachable.

BR

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Hi all,

See also:

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Yep, I had the same issue. I can make a pull request so it doesn’t check any more when both enable_beacon and show_upgrade_warning are off, seems like a proper fix. I can create a pull request if you think it is appropriate.

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