QC Update Laboratory
Official QC Update Laboratory documentation for creating private production-derived laboratories, testing Joomla core and extension updates, reviewing automated evidence, inspecting the updated site, downloading reports, pushing tested updates to production, undo workflows, administration, and troubleshooting.
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Install and orient QC Update Laboratory 1.01.14, understand its current free feature set and five administrator tabs, configure core settings, verify the installation, and prepare a Joomla site for safe update rehearsal.
Create private production-derived laboratories, understand file and database isolation, use the access gate safely, recognize laboratory protections, refresh a laboratory, and remove laboratory environments when testing is complete.
Discover Joomla core and extension updates, test one update at a time, preserve and verify the exact update package, interpret Passed, Warning and Failed results, and understand the checks QCUL performs during rehearsal.
Review automated laboratory evidence, HTTP and page checks, logs, browser evidence, screenshots, file and database changes, installed-version evidence, human-review requirements, and downloadable per-update reports.
Understand laboratory restore points, checkpoint creation, Undo Lab Update, interrupted restore recovery, retesting after undo, and the boundary between laboratory restore points and production rollback checkpoints.
Complete production-readiness review, interpret production drift and safety checks, choose production protection, push the exact tested extension or Joomla core package, resume interrupted work, and verify the live site after installation.
Understand temporary QCUL production checkpoints, configure the Undo Production Push window, roll back a production push, resume interrupted recovery, verify restored versions and routes, and understand checkpoint expiration and limits.
Operate QCUL lifecycle maintenance through Joomla Scheduled Tasks, including Expired Laboratory Cleanup, Orphan Scan and Production Safety Check, task provisioning, schedule preservation, restartable cleanup, orphan reporting, and routine maintenance.
Configure QCUL permissions, understand Super User requirements, security tokens, private laboratory access, noindex and no-store protections, email and Scheduled Task quarantine, sensitive evidence handling, and production-control safeguards.
Troubleshoot laboratory creation, private access, update discovery, package verification, rehearsal failures, production protection and push, undo and rollback, cleanup, and current QCUL 1.01.14 states, limits and supported update types.