How to fix the local update for CMS versions that were released between 23.03.2016 and 24.05.2016

1 Affected versions

Gentics CMS releases between 23.03.2016 and 18.05.2016 are affected. Installations that use the online updater are not affected.

  • 5.19.68 – 5.19.69
  • 5.20.41 – 5.20.46
  • 5.21.25 – 5.21.30
  • 5.22.20 – 5.22.25
  • 5.23.0 – 5.23.6

2 Quick fix

Please copy & paste the following shell command to your CMS server:


cd /Node/.node/modules/system/include/ && cp -p selfupdate-core.class.php selfupdate-core.class.php_backup && sed -i -- 's/\$this->extractChangelog(\$updateFilePath);/\$this->extractChangelog(\$filename);/g' selfupdate-core.class.php