Upgrading

This document describes how to upgrade the application and perform eventual database schema upgrades from an older release to a newer release.

For example, if you are coming from v2.1.2, you need to perform all database schema upgrades after v2.1.2 (in sequential order) till the release to which you want to upgrade.

Release v2.4.1 (coming from v2.4)

For upgrading to this release, a manual database schema upgrade is required. Please execute the following SQL commands inside your blogs database.

ALTER TABLE `page` MODIFY `argv` VARCHAR(250);
ALTER TABLE `post` MODIFY `argv` VARCHAR(250);
ALTER TABLE `user` MODIFY `argv` VARCHAR(250);

Release v2.4 (coming from v2.3 or v2.3.1)

For upgrading to this release, a manual database schema upgrade is required. Please execute the following SQL commands inside your blogs database.

NOTICE:
This upgrade requires MariaDB >= 10.0.5 or MySQL >= 5.6!

ALTER TABLE `post` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `post` DROP INDEX `body`;
ALTER TABLE `page` ADD FULLTEXT KEY `search` (`name`, `body`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD FULLTEXT KEY `search` (`name`, `body`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD CONSTRAINT `post_user` FOREIGN KEY (`user`)
	REFERENCES `user` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;

Release v2.3 (coming from v2.2 or v2.2.1)

For upgrading to this release, you need to replace the following strings inside your customized theme templates (if you have any).

Search for: $Language->template
Replace with: $Language->text

Release v2.2 (coming from v2.1.2)

For upgrading to this release, you need to replace the following strings inside your customized theme templates (if you have any).

Search for: ['ID']
Replace with: ['ATTR']['ID']

Release v2.1.2 (coming from v2.0, v2.1 or v2.1.1)

For upgrading to this release, a manual database schema upgrade is required. Please execute the following SQL commands inside your blogs database.

ALTER TABLE `page` ADD UNIQUE KEY `time_insert` (`time_insert`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD UNIQUE KEY `time_insert` (`time_insert`);
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD UNIQUE KEY `time_insert` (`time_insert`);

Release v2.0 (coming from v1.*)

For upgrading to this release, a manual database schema upgrade is required. Please execute the following SQL commands inside your blogs database.

ALTER TABLE `page` ADD `argv` VARCHAR(100) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `body`;
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD `argv` VARCHAR(100) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `body`;
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `argv` VARCHAR(100) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `body`;