Not sure if there is an issue about this, but I think something strong that backdrop-issue could offer is auto updates for security issues etc.
Since there is semantic versioning, this could be used as a check.
There are obviously a lot of issues that are needing to be addressed here, but thought I would start the issue.

~PR by @serundeputy: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop/pull/2307~ Revised by @laryn: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop/pull/3753
Part of META issue: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/2018
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So tried accessing the updates.backdropcms.org server again and tech support said: Hello, It looks like outside of the server that host isnt accessible currently -- jeremy_a@khsupport...
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It was the ProtectHome setting in the apache service which was the problem. I did this: systemctl edit apache2.service Then added this: [Service] ProtectHome=no...
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@themetman Good to hear your solution. May be helpful for others in the future.
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