I can't log in any more or create a new user "Unauthorized" error

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Hi, after updating my vikunja instance with:

docker compose pull and running docker compose up -d --force-recreate

I am getting following error upon login. “Unauthorized” (see screenshot below, cant upload two)

I inspected the logs and I can’t see anything significant:

db-1 has been recreated db-1 | db-1 | PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization db-1 | db-1 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04.258 UTC [1] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 17.6 (Debian 17.6-1.pgdg13+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, 64-bit db-1 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04.259 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432 db-1 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04.259 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432 db-1 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04.265 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" db-1 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04.287 UTC [28] LOG: database system was shut down at 2025-09-03 18:40:02 UTC db-1 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04.329 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:40:10.039Z level=INFO msg="No config file found, using default or config from environment variables." vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:40:10.043Z level=INFO msg="Running migrations…" vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:40:10.352Z level=INFO msg="Ran all migrations successfully." vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:40:10.361Z level=INFO msg="Mailer is disabled, not sending reminders per mail" vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:40:10.361Z level=INFO msg="Mailer is disabled, not sending overdue per mail" vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:40:10.362Z level=INFO msg="Vikunja version v1.0.0-rc1" vikunja-1 | ⇨ http server started on [::]:3456 vikunja-1 | time=2025-09-03T18:42:09.719Z level=INFO msg="POST /api/v1/login" component=http status=401 remote_ip=82.32.154.223 latency=17.659629ms user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

More over even when I try to register a new user I get the same unauthorized error:

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It’s very cryptic and I cannot find the root cause.

Lastly I loaded my backup PG dump like so:

docker cp /mnt/hdd/vikunja/postgres-backup.sql vikunja-db-1:/tmp/backup.sql
docker compose exec db psql -U vikunja -d vikunja -f /tmp/backup.sql

My docker compose file:

services:
  vikunja:
    image: vikunja/vikunja
    environment:
      #VIKUNJA_SERVICE_PUBLICURL: http://<the public ip or host where Vikunja is reachable>
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_HOST: db
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_PASSWORD: changeme
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_TYPE: postgres
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_USER: vikunja
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_DATABASE: vikunja
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_JWTSECRET: SUPERSECURE
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_ENABLEREGISTRATION: true
      VIKUNJA_BACKGROUNDS_ENABLED: true
      VIKUNJA_BACKGROUNDS_PROVIDERS_UNSPLASH_ENABLED: true
      VIKUNJA_BACKGROUNDS_PROVIDERS_UNSPLASH_ACCESSTOKEN: ....
      VIKUNJA_BACKGROUNDS_PROVIDERS_UNSPLASH_APPLICATIONID: ....
    ports:
      - 3456:3456
    volumes:
      - /mnt/hdd/vikunja/files:/app/vikunja/files
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
    restart: unless-stopped
  db:
    image: postgres:17
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: changeme
      POSTGRES_USER: vikunja
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -h localhost -U $$POSTGRES_USER"]
      interval: 2s
      start_period: 30s

Happy to share any logs or dumps to pinpoint the issue.

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OK, as others have mentioned in other threads, freezing version to vikunja/vikunja:0.24.6 solves the issue.

Please fix, and highlight in release notes that upgrading to 1.0 requires changing docker compose envs.

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You need use in your docker yaml. After that it will work.

VIKUNJA_SERVICE_PUBLICURL: http://<the public url where Vikunja is reachable>
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that did not solve my problem. 0.24.6 works.