Just a heads-up for self-hosted stable branch users. For me the upgrade via the GUI failed, I’m not sure if this would happen to everyone, as I saw some errors about unicorn processes, which tends to be a random issue in my experience. But at any rate that left my forum in a state where it claimed to be up-to-date in /admin/update while still being stuck on the old version. So I had to SSH into the server and /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app two times, the first time it just upgrades Postgres: UPGRADE OF POSTGRES COMPLETE Old 13 database is stored at /shared/postgres_data_old To complete the upgrade, rebuild again using: ./launcher rebuild app And the second time it finishes the rest of the upgrades. After that was all over and verifying that my data was intact I also did a /var/discourse/launcher cleanup to get rid of the huge backup file that it created for the old database.

[image] rahim123: the upgrade via the GUI failed, I’m not sure if this would happen to everyon AFAIK it will, and this is one of those upgrades that can’t be done using GUI.

[image] Jakke Flemming: AFAIK it will, and this is one of those upgrades that can’t be done using GUI. It really shouldn’t allow people to try, but also, if you’re on Stable, I’d think it best to only do command line upgrades.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: It really shouldn’t allow people to try This is what I was thinking too. [image] Jay Pfaffman: if you’re on Stable, I’d think it best to only do command line upgrades The GUI seems to work well enough for X.Y.z updates within a major Stable release, but yes, lesson learned for when there is a major new version.

PSA: Stable 3.3.3 -> 3.4.0 upgrade via GUI failed, had to rebuild via command line

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 7, 2025, 5:03pm 3

It really shouldn’t allow people to try, but also, if you’re on Stable, I’d think it best to only do command line upgrades.

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PSA: Stable 3.3.3 -> 3.4.0 upgrade via GUI failed, had to rebuild via command line

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