On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> El 5/1/09 12:41 PM, Leons Petrazickis escribió:
> > It's probably a good idea to go through intermediate version for the
> > upgrade. For example, 1.5 ->  1.7 ->  1.9 ->  1.11 ->  1.13. You may be
> > able to make bigger jumps, but going two versions up should always be
> > safe.
>
> You should never need to do this -- upgrading directly from any previous
> MediaWiki version to the latest is the recommended process and should
> always work unless something's broken.
>
> I just did a quick test upgrading a fresh 1.5 branch installation to
> 1.14 branch, and the update went flawlessly.



That may be true by 1.5, but I had a set of 1.3.x installations that I
tested some upgrades with to the then-current level 2 years ago and it
barfed and died repeatedly and consistently.  I asked here and was told to
do incremental one-step upgrades.


-- 
-george william herbert
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