If you have a stable installation that's working for you, there's no reason to upgrade. There are a few big fixes, but they are minor and not encountered very often.
-tk On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 3:51 PM Gerard Cerchio <[email protected]> wrote: > I read the upgrade guide and the change log. I have a very stable > installation running on 4.10.2. All the directory and weewx user changes > look a bit scary to me because I have site specific python scripts in > weewx/user directory that read and format Scripps buoy RSS feeds. > > Any guess how hard of time I'll have for the upgrade now that weewx has > shown up in apt upgrade list? > > On Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 3:07:16 PM UTC-8 vince wrote: > >> From Tom's announcement - "Be sure to read the Upgrade Guide >> <https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.0/upgrade/>." You need to install >> epel-release. >> On Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 2:56:06 PM UTC-8 Dale Chatham wrote: >> >>> I have a somewhat different problem: >>> >>> sudo yum update weewx >>> Last metadata expiration check: 2:16:48 ago on Sun 14 Jan 2024 02:38:40 >>> PM CST. >>> Dependencies resolved. >>> >>> Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package >>> weewx-4.10.2-1.el8.noarch >>> - nothing provides epel-release needed by weewx-5.0.0-1.el8.noarch >>> from weewx >>> - nothing provides python3-importlib-resources needed by >>> weewx-5.0.0-1.el8.noarch from weewx >>> >>> ========================================================================================================================================================== >>> Package Architecture >>> Version >>> Repository Size >>> >>> ========================================================================================================================================================== >>> Skipping packages with broken dependencies: >>> weewx noarch >>> 5.0.0-1.el8 weewx >>> 1.2 M >>> >>> Transaction Summary >>> >>> ========================================================================================================================================================== >>> Skip 1 Package >>> >>> Nothing to do. >>> Complete! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 1/14/2024 4:40 PM, p q wrote: >>> >>> I'm in the same boat. But I know I upgraded to 4.0 using apt so I'm >>> pretty sure I need to follow those instructions. >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 2:36 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Congratulations on the release of V5 team. >>>> Now I just have to remember how I did my original install 😊 >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> >>>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, 11:25 Tom Keffer, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> A year in the making, V5 is finally available! Some minor new >>>>> features, but most of the work has been to keep up with the changing world >>>>> of Python --- lots of things have become obsolete (distutils), while >>>>> others >>>>> have just changed. >>>>> >>>>> A few changes to highlight: >>>>> >>>>> - WeeWX can now be installed using pip. 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