[Koha] Upgrading from Koha 17.11 to 18.11 --- anything to watch out for?

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Chris,
It does not depend on the Koha version, but the MySQL/MariaDB version,
please double check the wiki page.
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/DBMS_auto_increment_fix
Regards,
Jonathan

Le mar. 2 avr. 2019 à 02:58, Chris Brown <chris at stayawake.co.uk> a écrit :
>
> Hi Hector,
>
> Thank you for your advice -- I will keep it in mind. We plan to upgrade
> over Easter when the libraries that we support will all be closed. I will
> take a full snapshot of the server (virtual machine) first so we can roll
> back if disaster strikes, and we already keep off-machine daily backups.
>
> Do I still need to apply the "auto increment fix" in 18.11?
>
> Chris Brown
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 11:00 PM Hector Gonzalez <cacho at genac.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello, you should have a complete backup that you trust and know how to
> > restore.  Both the database and the host files.
> >
> > Also, if the upgrade includes your database server, the upgrade may fail,
> > as the upgrade might turn mysql off and leave it off while other packages
> > -like koha-common- get upgraded, and koha-common requires mysql to be up,
> > in order to upgrade your database schema.  Make sure your mysql/mariadb
> > packages are upgraded before letting koha upgrade.
> >
> > Other than that, it should be that simple.
> >
> > Hector Gonzalez.
> >
> > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Chris Brown <chris at stayawake.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We are currently running Koha 17.11 (installed from Debian packages) on
> > > Debian 9.3, and we want to upgrade to Koha 18.11
> > >
> > > Is it really as simple as:
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get update
> > > sudo apt-get upgrade
> > >
> > > or is there anything else I need to watch out for? For example, do I need
> > > to take action to update the database schema?
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Chris Brown
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