[ome-devel] Release of OMERO 5.2.0

[Mark Carroll]

On 11/03/2015 03:40 PM, Christophe TREFOIS wrote:
> Is there a recommended upgrade path from 5.0 to 5.2?

What we have actually tested carefully is upgrade to 5.1, then upgrade
to 5.2: the safest course is to go to the latest 5.1 (currently 5.1.4),
start the server briefly to make sure that it seems to be working okay,
then continue reading into the 5.2 documentation and do that upgrade.

I'd love to tell you to just glance over
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.1/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html
for gotchas before moving to the 5.2 instructions, downloading the 5.2
zip and running sql/psql/OMERO5.1__1/OMERO5.0__0.sql before
sql/psql/OMERO5.2__0/OMERO5.1__1.sql and starting up the server -- I
think that would work just fine in this particular case. Do try it if
you like, but I'd stop short of calling it "recommended" as it's not
something we test or think about as much, so not something I'd do on a
valuable production server. I'd absolutely do it in my development
environment and expect it to work just fine so I /may/ be being
overcautious, but our users' data is precious. (-: We may choose to
recommend that abbreviated approach in due course.

As always, back up first, and read twice before pasting. We hope that
you find 5.2 a worthwhile improvement over 5.0!

Cheers,

Mark

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