I tried unsuccessfully to upgrade. Any advice?
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A user, nesnera, attempted to upgrade their Discourse instance but ended with a “FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP” error. Falco advised that the stable release channel is currently broken and recommended either following the default release channel or waiting for a fix. nesnera asked for clarification on following the default release channel and explained their upgrade steps, which resulted in the error. Meanwhile, dan has added a dummy themes:update task to both stable and beta channels, which might resolve the issue. nesnera thanked dan for the effort.
Stable is broken at the moment. I recommend following our default release channel, or waiting until a fix for
@Falco - Thanks for your response and explanation. What does it mean
? Did I do something wrong? My steps:
- I started the update in
admin/upgrade. There were several components to update, but only Docker was clickable (green). - It was successful, but without instructions on how to proceed. Refresh displayed the instructions from step 2.
- I did that with this unhappy result.

I added dummy themes:update task in both stable and beta.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11261
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11262
Good job!
@dan Thanks ![]()