I’m thinking of auto-updating Discourse via cronjob. For example every two weeks in the night a cronjob with the following: cd /var/discourse ./launcher rebuild app Do you think this is safe to do? Or should I do this manually?

It’s possible that something will go wrong and you’ll leave your site broken. I recommend that you list attention when you do it.

Yeah. I was thinking of sending all the build output via mail, so I can check in the morning.

Personally, I do the exact same thing with my sites, but I use the two-container install in case the bootstrap fails. Only if the bootstrap completes successfully does the old container stop and the new one start. So far I have had no problems

As Jay said, in rare cases, an update can sheep issues (whether in Discourse itself or with plugins/components). I’ve seen it happen a couple of times in a few years. It’s very rare, and fixes are made quickly, but because of this, I tend to get information on the updates (and check the Contribute >…

Anything new about this in 2026? I’d like to implement security updates asap (even at the risk of breaking a production site because of unattended update). Discourse doesn’t actually distinguish between security updates and other.. so I don’t mind just updating everything, every day. Is corn job st…

I personally wouldn’t do it. On the one hand, I don’t even need to update monthly for security fixes - which is to say, I read the release notes and make a decision. On the other hand, if you update daily, you’ll find more of the rare times when the thing will fail. You’ll have more downtime, for …

A discourse update has not broken my forum in the last 4 years so I’m not concerned. If it does break once in a blue moon, i can take it. My concern is more around security, and recent events (such as Axios npm packages a week ago…) with library hacks suggest that we may want to update libs +7 day…

[이미지] Alon1: A discourse update has not broken my forum in the last 4 years so I’m not concerned. An update issue might not only crash the forum, it can instead silently introduce new bugs, broken features, plugin or component incompatibilities, etc — though it’s rare. Even if drastically in…

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