Hi, I am about to upgrade our production discourse server (we self-host on EC2 as per the official installation instructions) and wanted to confirm the recommended approach. We do not have the upgrade button enabled in the UI and so it will be done on the EC2 instance. Now, I believe there are 2 m…

[image] stevejr: my understanding is that we should not use the latest of main versions of a release in production as they are still undergoing active development. Have you read Understanding Discourse release channels and Configure a supported tracking branch to get Discourse software update…

如果你想升级到最新版，那么管理后台手动升级就可以了。如果想升级到esr版本，只需要在containers/app.yml的最后面指定esr params: version: esr 然后重新构建即可。请确保网络一切正常。

Thanks for the reply. So by setting the version as esr does that override the base image used in the templates? We do not want the upgrade enabled in the admin UI so will need a way to do this in the instance or by simply rebuilding the instance and letting our AutoScaler manage it. If we use esr …

If you are on a significantly old version at present, you might benefit from a git pull before the launcher command.

Ah, I missed the Configure a supported tracking branch to get Discourse software updates post. From the answers so far I think I will use the release branch as we do a monthly update. Many thanks for this.

[image] stevejr: We do not want the upgrade enabled in the admin UI so you don’t discourse-docker installed, then.

我把discourse用作个人知识库，几乎是每天rebuild一下 :rofl:

Thought I would add on instead of creating a new topic. Is anyone else having issues updating from the app / UI ? I seem to occassionally be able to update docker_manager from the mobile app, discourse itself always reports as in “updating” status and I have to get on the console to update. Curre…

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J’utilise Discourse comme base de connaissances personnelle et je le reconstruis presque tous les jours

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