Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the report. The cause isn’t v954 — it’s the Nextcloud Recognize app. Its face-clustering job runs every 15 min, doesn’t finish, and over ~2 days piles up postgres connections that wedge the system. snap restart clears them, which is why the workaround lasts ~2 days.
Recognize has been a poor fit for home servers for a while — same advice came up in #365 and #384. Recommended fix: disable Recognize and use PhotoPrism (also in the App Store) — it does the same job in a standalone Go process and won’t touch Nextcloud.
snap run nextcloud.occ app:disable recognize
snap restart nextcloud
Then install PhotoPrism and follow the wiki: Photoprism — one symlink so it indexes your existing Nextcloud photos in place. Auto-indexing every 3h is on by default.
Let me know if anything trips up.