Vaughan is seeking help with downgrading their Discourse forum from a beta version (2.5.0 beta 3) to an official release without losing posts. awesomerobot informed Vaughan that downgrading isn’t supported and provided a link to a relevant topic. Vaughan expressed surprise that beta versions are common after installation and described issues with upgrading Docker, which caused their forum to crash. riking suggested reading about the PostgreSQL 12 update, and Vaughan clarified their intention to update non-Discourse software via the terminal and Discourse via the update button. However, pfaffman advised that command-line upgrades are sometimes necessary, contradicting Vaughan’s plan.
Hi all,
I’m a tech for an online Discourse Forum that for some reason?? (which I can’t put my finger on) is running a beta version 2.5.0 beta 3
I have the owner who isn’t very tech savvy who I think has continually checked in and pressed the Update button until we’ve arrived at a Beta version. This is the only rational explanation.
So, what I would like help with is “Is it possible to regress to an official Release?” and get away from using beta. without losing the Forums posts??
So the Beta version is common place on install? One of the problems I’ve had is that the owner upgraded to the next beta version and it was reliant on the Docker upgrade. So, he upgraded Docker and the Forum crashed.
I then reverted back to a backup on the Server and then upgraded Docker on the Server thru Apt.
BUT, on the Discourse forum software, it STILL demands that Docker be updated. I realise that this is a different issue from where this thread started but, it is question 2 that I have.
Can you make sense of any of this please?
My intention is to update any software other than Discourse would be to do it via apt on the terminal at the Server.
I will only update Discourse via the Discourse update button.