[RESOLVED] "Clear your cache" message on `release-demo`

gaekwad · 2026-02-24 12:41:01

Among other temperamental things on the current demo server, I’m troubleshooting the clear-your-cache message on the admin side when there’s typically a mismatch of files and cache.

A request to anyone using release-demo: in a clean browser, do you see the clear-your-cache after login? Does it persist as you navigate?

Thank you.

Edit: sorted – Cloudflare configuration misfire.

Last edited by gaekwad (2026-02-26 00:23:36)

giz · 2026-02-24 16:18:21

It persists in a variety of contexts, and then magically goes away after a few hours.

gaekwad · 2026-02-24 17:12:29

giz wrote #342766:

It persists in a variety of contexts, and then magically goes away after a few hours.

Thanks, giz. It’s baffling to me.

colak · 2026-02-24 17:22:15

I get no such error. Is there a way to reproduce it?

gaekwad · 2026-02-24 17:23:23

colak wrote #342768:

Is there a way to reproduce it?

Annoyingly, no – not that I know of.

colak · 2026-02-24 17:25:26

I logged in and there was no message, then logged out and logged in again. All behaved as expected.

etc · 2026-02-24 19:34:38

Nothing unusual in my tests. What exactly the message says?

gaekwad · 2026-02-24 20:07:44

I wonder if this is restricted to macOS. Looking at giz’ post history, there’s evidence of macOS…I’m on macOS…I had an email earlier from another macOS user with the same error, hence my OP.

etc wrote #342772:

Nothing unusual in my tests. What exactly the message says?

“Please force-reload the page or clear your browser caches.”

colak · 2026-02-25 05:43:09

gaekwad wrote #342773:

I wonder if this is restricted to macOS. Looking at giz’ post history, there’s evidence of macOS…I’m on macOS…I had an email earlier from another macOS user with the same error, hence my OP.

I’m on MacOS 14.5 (Sonoma) without any issues. It may be an issue for newer OS users.

Algaris · 2026-02-25 09:19:03

I’m running macOS 26.3. When I logged into the Textpattern 4.9.1 demo I got the message: “Please force-reload the page or clear your browser caches.” I didn’t get the message in the Textpattern 5.0-dev demo.

I tested this in Safari Version 26.3 and Firefox 148.0.

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Bloke · 2026-02-25 09:41:52

I run macOS Sequoia and it happened to me on the release-demo. Firefox and Safari latest.

Interesting that giz notes it does it initially then goes away. Not sure if that’s later on the same “instance” or after the three-hourly rebuild. Maybe the act of someone else visiting the site and refreshing kicks it into shape? Bit of a stretch, I admit.

For the record, it won’t happen on dev instances ‘cos we only do the version checks on release versions, as far as I recall.

uli · 2026-02-25 09:43:56

I also see that message on Android (13) with any browser I tried, Cromite, Mull (a Firefox derivative), Privacy Browser, Fulguris (webview driven).

uli · 2026-02-25 09:45:47

I also see that message on Android (13) with any browser I tried, Cromite, Mull (a Firefox derivative), Privacy Browser, Fulguris (webview driven).

uli · 2026-02-25 09:45:51

I also see that message on Android (13) with any browser I tried, Cromite, Mull (a Firefox derivative), Privacy Browser, Fulguris (webview driven).

etc · 2026-02-25 10:06:13

The only instance where this warning appears in the code is:

    if (!textpattern.version || !'".txp_version."'.match(textpattern.version)) {
        alert('Please force-reload the page or clear your browser caches.')
    }

Admittedly, when a client visits the 4.9.1 demo for the first time, it loads a cached 4.8 textpattern.js version, whence the mismatch with db version. But it should be ok after a hard-refresh. Server-side cache might be interfering, but it serves the right version in my tests.

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