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### Description
When I try to mass update some transactions I get the following error in the log:
`[2026-09-17 16:46:12] production.ERROR: AUDIT: Validation errors in FireflyIII\Http\Requests\MassEditJournalRequest (10.0.0.2 (
[email protected]) -> POST:https://firefly.elsjes.nl/transactions/mass/update) {"description.22058":["The description.22058 field is required."],"description.22057":["The description.22057 field is required."],"description.22056":["The description.22056 field is required."],"description.22055":["The description.22055 field is required."],"description.22054":["The description.22054 field is required."],"description.22053":["The description.22053 field is required."],"description.22052":["The description.22052 field is required."],"description.22051":["The description.22051 field is required."],"description.22050":["The description.22050 field is required."],"description.22049":["The description.22049 field is required."],"description.22048":["The description.22048 field is required."],"description.22047":["The description.22047 field is required."],"description.22046":["The description.22046 field is required."],"description.22045":["The description.22045 field is required."],"description.22044":["The description.22044 field is required."],"description.22043":["The description.22043 field is required."],"description.22042":["The description.22042 field is required."],"description.22041":["The description.22041 field is required."],"description.22040":["The description.22040 field is required."],"description.22039":["The description.22039 field is required."],"description.22038":["The description.22038 field is required."],"description.22037":["The description.22037 field is required."],"description.22036":["The description.22036 field is required."],"description.22035":["The description.22035 field is required."],"description.22034":["The description.22034 field is required."],"description.22033":["The description.22033 field is required."],"description.22032":["The description.22032 field is required."],"description.22031":["The description.22031 field is required."],"description.22030":["The description.22030 field is required."],"description.22029":["The description.22029 field is required."],"description.22028":["The description.22028 field is required."],"description.22027":["The description.22027 field is required."],"description.22026":["The description.22026 field is required."],"description.22025":["The description.22025 field is required."],"description.22024":["The description.22024 field is required."],"description.22023":["The description.22023 field is required."],"description.22022":["The description.22022 field is required."],"description.22021":["The description.22021 field is required."],"description.22020":["The description.22020 field is required."],"description.22019":["The description.22019 field is required."],"description.22018":["The description.22018 field is required."],"description.22017":["The description.22017 field is required."],"description.22016":["The description.22016 field is required."],"description.22015":["The description.22015 field is required."],"description.22014":["The description.22014 field is required."],"description.22013":["The description.22013 field is required."],"description.22012":["The description.22012 field is required."],"description.22011":["The description.22011 field is required."],"description.22010":["The description.22010 field is required."],"description.22009":["The description.22009 field is required."]}`
The GUI shows the following:
This hapens in version v6.7.2. When I go back to version v6.6.6 the mass update is working fine.
### Debug information
Debug information generated at 2026-09-17 17:18:15 for Firefly III version **develop/2026-09-17**.
| System information |
|---|
| Item | Value |
|---|
| Firefly III | develop/2026-09-17 |
| Build time | 2026-09-17 07:25:52 Europe/Amsterdam (1789622752) |
| PHP version | 8.5.9 (64bits) / fpm-fcgi / Linux x86_64 |
| BCscale | 12 |
| Error reporting | Display: Off, reporting: ALL errors |
| Max upload | 104857600 (104857600) |
| Database drivers | *mysql*, pgsql, sqlite |
| Firefly III information |
|---|
| Item | Value |
|---|
| Timezone | Europe/Amsterdam + Europe/Amsterdam |
| App environment | production, debug: false |
| Layout | v1 |
| Logging | info, stack / audit_daily, audit_stdout |
| Cache driver, session driver | file, file |
| Default language and locale | en_US + equal |
| Trusted proxies | ** |
| Login provider & user guard | eloquent / web |
| Login headers | N/A + N/A |
| Last cron job | 2026-09-16 22:00:00 (17 hours ago) |
| Mailer | smtp |
| Exchange rates | Disabled, downloads disabled |
| RB-column | Enabled |
| User-specific information |
|---|
| Item | Value |
|---|
| User | #1 of 1 |
| User flags | :credit_card: :wrench: :bookmark_tabs: :email: |
| Primary currency | EUR |
| Convert to primary currency? | Disabled |
| Session start | 2026-08-18 00:00:00 |
| Session end | 2026-09-17 23:59:59 |
| View range | last30 |
| User language | en_US |
| User locale | en_US |
| Locale(s) supported | en_US.utf8: :white_check_mark:
en_US.UTF-8: :white_check_mark:
|
| User agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/153.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
### Steps to reproduce
1. Select a tag with some transactions
2. Select "Edit selected individually"
3. Make some minor changes to some transactions
4. Click on "Update these transactions"
### Additional info
- It looks like the number of transactions makes no difference. The error occurred with 2 and with 50 transactions.
- The problem pops up in version v6.7.2.
- It works fine in version v6.6.6. I did not test versions v6.7.0 and v6.7.1