18 comments
Comment from: E. I. Sanchez
I am wondering why you mention it so often? Is the reason the “worm-problem"??
Comment from: fplanque
Nope, no worm problem. ;)
I am a bit scared. I use Blue Host and for some reason whenever I try to manually upgrade I get problems.
Fantastico works for me though. I am wondering when you will have 1.10 available through Fantastico on Blue Host.
Comment from: fplanque
Sharky, I have no control on Fantastico’s releases, unfortunately.
I would suggest thought that you ask BlueHost. They are Fantastico’s clients, so they could definitely get a little more pull than I would to have it upgraded. ;)
I took the plunge and want to thank you for so effectively nagging us… I was particularly worried because I was running 0.9.1.something and figured there was no way to keep the content there. The db upgrade worked perfectly… and I just reskinned it… now I’m updating CSS as I like and will release a new version of the b2evoMarkdown plugin soon. best, Joe
Comment from: Tim
When I upgrade, will I lose all of my previous posts?
Comment from: fplanque
No, you will *not* lose your posts. Otherwise it would be called “new install", not “upgrade” ;)
When you use the installer in version 1.10, it will recognize the version of your existing b2evolution database and upgrade it into a 1.10 b2evolution database *without* erasing any existing data.
I keep up with the updates and I also encourage all users to do the same.
Just one thing - after upgrading from 1.9.3 to 1.10.2, some plugins didn’t work anymore (capcha, star rating). I had to uninstall and reinstall them.
Comment from: Andreas Obermueller
Hi Francois!
Thanks for your great job!
I followed your instructions and everything went smooth. I just had to upload my own index of the “blog all” blog, so ofter a view short minites I am now happy to be up to date again. Nice!
Greetings from Austria, Andy
Update was easy and everything works just fine. The performance is awesome. Thx for this version!
Comment from: Bangis Magtanggol
Francois,
Thanks for the upgrade.
Upgrading is a breeze and easy. My site works just fine as promised.
Keep up the good work and thanks again for keeping this blog script free for all.
Mabuhay from the Philippines
So, I contact Blue Host and they tell me that their hands are tied. That Fantastico itself needs to update its files…even “mighty Wordpress” is running an outdated version on Fantastico…
Long story short, I manned-up and did it manually.
You weren’t kidding Francois, it was actually pretty easy.
Thanks Man.
Comment from: William Hill
I am running 1.8.6 with the Crystal Glass Skin. Will this skin work with 1.10?
Francois, great job from all of you at b2evo.
Very simple to update from 1.9 to 1.10.2
thanks a lot
Dirk
Comment from: Telarus, KSC
Super easy upgrade. THANKS!
Comment from: mattoo
update last week, very smooth, pretty easy, quite a nice work !!
Thanks again for all, and keep on the good work !
Comment from: fplanque
Hi,
So far there have been 2 people positing here that they actually had a problem with upgrading. In both cases it seems pretty obvious that the problem was due to not upgrading all files to the latest version.
So let me say it again, you can keep your existing _basic_config.php if you have one (versions 1.6 and up) but you have to replace all other files with the new ones.
You can also keep your existing skin if it is recent enough (versions 1.8 and up).
The comments with problems have unrouteable email addresses, so I cannot help you guys personally. (Dare I be sarcastic enough to say that the required skill level to perform an upgrade is to be able to spell your own email address correctly? :> )
Furthermore, let me remind you the place for tech support is the forums, not here.
Anyway, seems that the upgrade process globally works extremely well (as long as you do upload all required files ;)
-Francois.
I took the plunge. There are a lot of new tabs and options. I’ll learn them as I go along.
So far my skin worked out of the box and my plugins seems to be working alright.
I’m having a tiny issue with my technorati plugin but I’ll post that in the Forum.
Good work and Long Live Version 1.10.
Edgar.