Forum upgrade

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Since some time ago, the system was informing about the need of some upgrades. Today the docker_manager itself needed to be upgraded, so I did it.

Now our Discourse is able to perform a major upgrade, including several of the installed plugins.

I’ve just made a backup, and now I’ll run it.
Please report any anomalies you notice afterwards.

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Done

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New feature: now you can highlight a word or phrase you might have misspelled and click’ edit’ to just fast-edit it alone, as I will do with this.

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Oh, I see. Good!

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Thanks @Miguel for your service! :grin:

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@claudiu:

I’ve just upgraded the forum with no problems using the Dashboard.

But the droplet has already accumulated 77 upgrades (1 of them about security) so the server needs to be restarted. I wanted to warn you before doing so by the command recommended by Digital Ocean:

sudo shutdown -r now

We would communicate via Slack in case of any issue and I already have your address actualist.claudiu@gmail.com.

Any problem with proceeding? Do you prefer to do it yourself from the console?

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@Miguel go for it! let me know if any issues. and thanks for taking care of things :slight_smile:

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Done, with no issues. But “sudo shutdown -r now” and “sudo reboot” weren’t enough, indicating that there was a need for a an update of all packages in the Ubuntu system, so I run

sudo apt upgrade

Now 0 updates are pending

(I document all this so it makes it easier for others to do these tasks in the future)

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Just in case something strange is noted, I’ve just deployed a Discourse critical update (docker related).

More info (for @staff members only) about a pending update in https://discuss.actualism.online/t/latest-upgrade-requires-pulling-a-new-image/402/3

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I’ve finally succeeded in applying the pending Discourse upgrade. Please report any problems.

Now, @claudiu, a new LTS release and 71 updates can be applied (droplet/Ubuntu related).
Should I proceed?

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I don’t have a strong opinion. I tend to go for the “if it ain’t broken don’t fix it” with upgrades :smile:. But if you do want to do it I’d recommend making a droplet backup first, in case something goes wrong. In general it should be safe though.

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Well… It’s not a bad policy considering the problems that the upgrades themselves sometimes cause (although especially in Windows).
We can wait until a security upgrade appears (like last time -Nov '21-)