Hi Section numbering does not work until I remove \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter. I had a longer text file and I stripped it down until I found this? Greets Oliver Running freshly installed context ARM64 on m1 and updated it via sh install.sh on ARM64 macos 14.3.1: ---- context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.05 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Applications/ConTeXtStandalone/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 mtx-context | main context file: /Applications/ConTeXtStandalone/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2024.01.24 22:39 ------ Stripped down MWE: \setuppapersize[A4] [A4] \starttext \completecontent[criterium=all] % ToC \page \chapter{CHAP 1} TEXT \startbackmatter \startchapter[title=Literature] \placelistofpublications \stopchapter \stopbackmatter \stoptext