Hello everyone, I am a Discourse beginner, and I would like to ask: after successfully deploying Discourse, I see an updatable version in the admin panel. I have found two upgrade methods:
./launcher rebuild app to upgrade and update.What is the difference between these two methods? Which upgrade method should be prioritized?
Thank you.
both are good and (I think) basically do the same thing. Only caveat is that occasionally the UI upgrade will not work and a command line rebuild will be necessary. An example of this was when the database version needed to be upgraded.
So…. run a back up, use the online admin interface but be prepared to have to go into the command line if you have to.
Once, after upgrading through the backend administrator panel, image attachments went missing, and I only managed to recover them through recover. I don’t know the reason why, so since then, I have only used rebuild for updates and upgrades.
i only update via ssh but both should work for updating Discourse. you should update Docker from command line though (updates are less often).
How often do you typically rebuild? Or do you wait for a few official updates before rebuilding?
It depends on which site I am updating and when the best time is. on a busy production forum, generally I update/rebuild once a week, but I will also do it sooner if I know a specific update has a fix I want, or if I need to make a change to app.yml (installing a plugin, for example). you probably don’t have to update that often though. on my dev instance I rebuild probably at least every second day.
I update as soon as it is conveniently possible when there is an update available.