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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 9.x => Topic started by: esperinas on March 03, 2021, 03:46:36 PM

Title: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: esperinas on March 03, 2021, 03:46:36 PM
Sorry for my basic question ...

Is it currently possible to use SME 9.2 and wait,
or is it absolutely necessary to migrate to SME 10 beta ?

Thank :-)
Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: TerryF on March 03, 2021, 10:34:52 PM
The beta is pretty solid, RC is not far away, so maybe give it a week or two/three
Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: ReetP on March 04, 2021, 01:56:34 PM
Quote from: esperinas on March 03, 2021, 03:46:36 PM
Is it currently possible to use SME 9.2 and wait,
or is it absolutely necessary to migrate to SME 10 beta ?

If you are installing new then use v10 Beta. It is pretty solid. There may be a few fixes coming but we think all the core stuff is OK now.

If you have an existing 9.2 then remember it is no longer supported. I would be running test upgrades to make sure it all goes OK and see what may be missing.

Either way, you should be working on it right now.
Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: jameswilson on March 05, 2021, 02:33:46 AM
Is there going to be an in place upgrade path?
Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on March 05, 2021, 08:51:40 AM
upstream does not support it, so we do not either.

Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: ReetP on March 05, 2021, 10:05:34 AM
Quote from: jameswilson on March 05, 2021, 02:33:46 AM
Is there going to be an in place upgrade path?

Similar issues we had between v8 & v9.

RHEL did have an upgrade script for early versions of CentOS 7 but apparently it was flaky as and they pulled it.

Probably suits them as they are in the support business....

So not our choice.
Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: jameswilson on March 05, 2021, 01:37:24 PM
Fair enough I did assume there wouldn't be

Thanks
Title: Re: upgrade 10 or not ?
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on March 05, 2021, 03:43:53 PM
that is sad as we all know that fedora support in place upgrade between version for years and the base their distro RHEL on fedora, but not that long:


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Fedora 12, 13 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Fedora 19, 20 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Fedora 28 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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If you have Fedora 21 or later, you can try to upgrade using the instructions at the DNF System Upgrade Quick Doc.
If you have Fedora 20 or earlier, you will have to perform at least part of the upgrade with bare yum. You can either use that method to upgrade to Fedora 21 or later and then use DNF system upgrade to upgrade from there to a currently-supported release, or just use bare dnf or yum for the entire upgrade process.

So maybe 10 to 11 would allow in place, and probably 11 to 12 !