No article versions in the frontend - Joomla 6.0.0

[dpollez]

Basic Joomla 6.0.0. site with 2 users, 2 categories, 3 articles, Main and Blog menu
Browser: Edge. Hosting: Apache/litespeed, PHP 8.4.3 & 10.6.21-MariaDB

Successively saving articles in the frontend, either via save or save and close, does not generate article versions.
Doing the same in the backend does generate article versions.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Expected result

Actual result

Create article in frontend
Save & Close
Edit same article
Change title
Save
Click Versions
=> No versions

New article in backend
Save & Close
Edit same article in backend
Change title
Save
Click Versions
=> One sees 2 versions

System information (as much as possible)

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System Information

version: Joomla! 6.0.0 Stable [ Kuimarisha ] 14-October-2025 16:00 UTC
compatpluginenabled: false
compatpluginparameters:
phpversion: 8.4.3
php: Linux node155-eu.n0c.com 4.18.0-553.40.1.lve.el8.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 18:54:57 UTC 2025 x86_64
dbserver: mysql
dbversion: 10.6.21-MariaDB
dbcollation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
dbconnectioncollation: utf8mb4_general_ci
dbconnectionencryption:
dbconnencryptsupported: false
server: Apache
sapi_name: litespeed
useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/142.0.0.0

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PHP Settings

memory_limit: 512M
upload_max_filesize: 128M
post_max_size: 128M
display_errors: false
short_open_tag: false
file_uploads: true
output_buffering: false
open_basedir:
session.save_path: xxxxxx
session.auto_start: 0
disable_functions: show_source,system,shell_exec,passthru
xml: true
zlib: true
zip: true
mbstring: true
fileinfo: true
gd: true
iconv: true
intl: true
max_input_vars: 200000

systeminfo-2025-10-22T18_51_46+00_00.txt

[brianteeman]

Confirmed

cc @rdeutz

[brianteeman]

@joomdonation can you look at this please

[joomdonation]

Thanks @dpollez and @brianteeman. I made PR #46358 which should fix the issue. Please help testing, thanks.