Topic: Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.6?

[Mike]

Just looking for some comments on upgrading from 5.0 to 5.6 (or newer). Is the upgrade path smooth or are there known gotchas to look out for? Is it better to install 5.6 onto a clean disk?

Thanks

[Bill Talcott]

Most people do a backup, a clean install, then restore the backup. I have done plain upgrades on ours from 4.1.2 to 5.0 to 5.5 with no problems other than a few custom templates that needed to be tweaked. Check out the Bugs page for 5.6 before you do upgrade. There seem to be a few little problems yet, VPN being the most common.

Most of the benefits of 5.6 seem to be "behind the scenes" stuff. For all the stuff we do, 5.5 and 5.6 seem to be identical feature-wise. For now, I'm sticking with 5.5.

[Charlie Brady]

Mike wrote:

> Just looking for some comments on upgrading from 5.0 to 5.6
> (or newer).

Upgrade should be safe for any version from 3.0 onward. Backup first, of course.

Charlie

[Mike]

Ok, thanks for the advice.