If you’re currently running a standard installation of Discourse earlier than v3.1.0.beta7 (or stable earlier than v3.0.6), there is a chance you will be met with this error when attempting to upgrade via the admin UI:
Server Error
while trying to load /admin/docker/repos
Error code: 500 error
To resolve the issue, you will need to run a command-line rebuild:
cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app
Once you’ve run a CLI upgrade, future upgrades via the UI will work fine.
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Background
This error is happening because of some recent changes to our .discourse-compatibility file format. Older versions of Discourse are unable to parse compatibility information for plugins which have started using the new format, and therefore throw this error.
Very few plugins have started using the new syntax, so we don’t expect this to be a particularly widespread issue. We’ll keep an eye on things, and update here if there are any developments.