Upgrading Drupal

Each time I do something on my Drupal site I am pestered by a new update to be necessary for security reasons.
However - those upgrades are not possible automatically as it is possible for some modules.

For someone who has a webspace without composer and only has composer at the local version of Drupal I have to update the site with composer, then delete it online and then upload all files again onto my shared webspace.

Why - if Drupal already has such a great way to automatically update modules, is it not possible for Drupal to upgrade itself in the same way?

Please forgive me for not having the required knowledge to find this out. I'm still struggling with the composer. Here is what happened (Drupal 9.5.9, PHP 8.1.18):

With the rapid pace of major versions in Drupal, upgrade bottle necks happen more often.

Could #3357582: Always allow downloading and installing contrib module dev-release in next major version be the solution?

Dear all,

I hope someone has a suggestion, I'm going on circles since a while.

I have a DP9 page, trying to move it to DP10.

I removed old themes, deprecated modules, added patches for DP10 to the existing ones, got upgrade_status clean (except Captcha, which has a DP10 only compatible module) added cweagans/composer-patches and mglaman/composer-drupal-lenient to allow patches and incompatible modules. However, I keep on getting the same results.

Any idea?

My composer.json

I am attempting to update my site to use php 8.1 so I can upgrade to Drupal 10, but whenever I select 8.1 for the php version, the site becomes unusable.   I am using Drupal 9.5.8 currently with a fresh install of the core files.   Current php version is 7.4.

When I switch to php8.1 the link to the image shows what php extensions I have enabled.

Hi,

In my D7 site i have (more or less) following custom php code to automate login from an external url that sends post variables:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['USR'])){
$username = $_POST['USR'];
$pass = $_POST['PSW'];
}