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Re: Upgrading from 2.16

 

Hi Edward,

Wow this is quite far back. We upgrading some instances from 2.20 now and
everything is going fine, provided that you drop SQL views before the
upgrade. SQL views often hold table updates effected through war upgrades.
>From 2.23 to 2.23 you need to read about changes required to sms config if
used.

Read the upgrade documentation for each version, some has scripts which you
must run, others execute an upgrade routine with first startup of the war
file.

We have find issues when not upgrading incrementally and also starting up
the server after each upgrade, so this is recommended. You may find it
difficult to find the link to older war files but check the URL for
download of newer versions and just change the version number in the war
accordingly.

I would take care if any of the implementations are tracker because tracker
got a major overhaul since then including changes in tables. You will find
apps like individual records etc chenging to tracker and event capture.

Through learning some hard lessons we usually upgrade on a test instance
first and test all existing functionality properly. Also had some issues
with table or column updates so we download a Sierra Leone database of the
same version and compare the tables and columns in that instance vs ours
with a SQL view.

Good luck

Elmarie

On 16 Jul 2017 20:10, "Edward Robinson" <erobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have a couple of 2.16 installations that should probably be brought up
> to date.
>
> What are the major caveats I should be looking out for and what is the
> latest stable DHIS2 version that I should be aiming for?  It’s critical
> that service be maintained for the client, I will run the upgrades on
> another box and validate them before updating live but I wondered if anyone
> had anything specific that comes to mind that I should look out for or be
> aware prior to upgrading.  Do I need to upgrade incrementally?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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