Is it normal for local.php to be deleted every time I do a composer update?
just do full backup before every update - you should do the backup anyway.
And to answer question directly… no, I think this is something that should be resolved I would open a ticket if it does not exist already.
I have open ticket like months ago lol but thanks anyway …
Curious … Do you do composer update or still using php zip? If composer update, does your local.php get deleted after each use?
I have backups between each update
The ticket … June 27th …
Most of the time, I clone repo. and install the matic using bin/console so I do not use composer based installation all the time.
So I cannot really give you any more info on disapering local.php file.
Maybe core team will accept it, if you create a PR & tests for the issue 
Don’t know how to do that so please do explain it to me how and I will go do it.
Short answer: It is ‘normal’ because we have our config in our /app folder which should not be the case, but that is how things were done when Mautic was created. We can’t change that until Mautic 5 as it will break backwards compatibility.
We are planning to properly decouple things like configuration, user-uploaded resources etc from the core, so that anything you change or tweak is not impacted by composer updates. So yes, for now, please back up before updating!
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