After updating to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.81, upgrading a MariaDB server fails: Variable "$releaseId" of required type "String!" was not provided.

Leonardo Neissinger Soares

Updated September 29, 2026 07:57

kb: bug kb: fixed Plesk for Linux kb: technical

Applicable to:

Plesk was updated to version 18.0.81.
When attempting to upgrade MariaDB from 10.5 to version 10.11, 11.8, or 12.3 via the Plesk GUI, the "Analyzing databases with mysqlcheck" stage fails with:

CONFIG_TEXT: Variable "$releaseId" of required type "String!" was not provided.
Variable "$databaseServerId" of required type "ID!" was not provided.

Product issue:

#PPPM-15531 "Fixed an issue where, after updating to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.81, upgrading a MariaDB server from the âTools & Settingsâ > âDatabase Serversâ page failed with the âVariable â$releaseIdâ of required type âString!â was not providedâ error."
Fixed in:
- Plesk Obsidian 18.0.81 Update 1 21 September 2026 (Linux)

Please consider updating your server:

If update is not possible for some reason you may try the following

workaround

Update Plesk to 18.0.81 Update 1 or later.