Forum OpenACS Development: Re: OpenACS 5.0 Upgrade Experiences

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Posted by Michael Bluett on
I have managed to get to 5.0.0 (from 4.6.3) on my test server at least. Not sure whether I want to go to 5.0.4 - not sure there's any reason for me to upgrade.

Some things to note:

  • I couldn't find a link to /acs-admin/apm/ on the acs-admin page, just a link to /acs-admin/install/, which appears to have different options.
  • I had to untick the 4.6.2-4.6.3 upgrade sql script when updating acs-messaging to v5.0.0.
The "install tarball over the top of existing directory" advice in the docs (if you aren't using CVS) isn't the most subtle of approaches, and I did some pruning as above. Probably the best thing to do would be prune the directories that have replacement files first (effectively doing what CVS does). Ideally you'd use CVS.
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Posted by Joel Aufrecht on
Dot releases are always recommended upgrades - they contain only bug fixes, not new features, and we try hard to make them very low risk upgrades.

Changelog for 5.0.x:
https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-0-0/release-notes.html