BLOB, TEXT, GEOMETRY or JSON column 'cat_dir' can't have a default value - Fixed

[Boby]

My situation:
- Updated from Joomla 3.x to Joomla 4 (a week ago)
- Joomla-version: 4.2.5 Stable [ Uaminifu ]
- PHP-version: 8.0.20

Installation of the component faliled with the follwoing message: "BLOB, TEXT, GEOMETRY or JSON column 'cat_dir' can't have a default value"
Component was not installed

Thanks,
Boby

[ColinM]

Hi
Do not recocognise any of these with jDownloads!
Colin

[Boby]

Sounds for me like this message comes from the database...like the setup tries to define a default value for a column and the database doesn't like it?

[Arno]

Okay. I think I now what your problem is.
I will fix it today and update the pre-beta later.

[Arno]

Hi,
this bug should be fixed with pre-beta 3.
But note the hints!