Zotero 10.0 keeps terminating after about a hour or so

israelpattison · 2026-08-20T12:10:15+00:00

[Split from Announcing Zotero 10]

Zotero 10.0 running on my MacBook Pro (M4 Max, Tahoe 26.5.2) keeps terminating after about a hour or so.

dstillman · 2026-08-20T12:10:49+00:00

Can you open the Console app (via Spotlight) and email one or more crash logs to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread?

stefanket · 2026-08-21T10:31:26+00:00

I have the same problem and have just sent an email with 1 crash log to you

MTEDI · 2026-08-21T12:08:58+00:00

Same here - will send a report as well.

jeremyvancleve · 2026-08-21T17:07:41+00:00

I have seen crashes on MBP OS 26.6.2 too. Will send report with thread link next crash I catch

dstillman · 2026-08-21T17:22:33+00:00

Recent crash reports should be in Console — you don't need to wait for another.

jeremyvancleve · 2026-08-21T17:29:01+00:00

ah, indeed, thanks.

sending log now.

dstillman · 2026-08-21T23:05:42+00:00

Thanks for the crash reports.

This is due to a bug in Zotero, though at least for @stefanket and @MTEDI, it was triggered by the Zoplicate plugin, which inappropriately updated its max-version to Zotero 10 over a month ago. Later changes during the beta cycle then broke Zoplicate at startup, causing it to leave a database connection open that would eventually result in this crash on macOS. Plugins should never declare compatibility with a major version of Zotero until we've announced that the version is feature-frozen on the dev list, and we'll be banning plugins that do so in the future. We'll make this clear to the Zoplicate developer.

In any case, the underlying bug here should be fixed in the latest Zotero beta. We'll release that as 10.0.1 soon.

@jeremyvancleve, your issue was different but might also be fixed in the beta.

MTEDI · 2026-08-22T05:16:43+00:00

Thanks for explaining and for the upcoming fix. I'll remove the Zoplicate plugin...

stefanket · 2026-08-22T08:06:34+00:00

Thank you @dstillman and Zotero team for a great job!