CMS 2.3.9 to 4.2.0 upgrade

[alex]

You need to do the upgrade in stages. You can’t go straight from 2.3 to 4.2. You also have likely 2 MySQL upgrades to do.

First need to down the containers and make sure you have a good backup. Then upgrade to Xibo 3.3.12. As part of that. you’ll need to make sure you upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 by running mysqlupgrade. Notes on doing that are here:

Xibo CMS 2.3.10 Released

If you’re upgrading from an earlier version to 2.3.10, the version of MySQL bundled changes from 5.6 to 5.7 as 5.6 is now end of life. You will therefore need to do some extra work to handle the MySQL 5.6-5.7 migration. We will shortly update the official documentation to cover this, but in the interim, please use the following process. In all the steps below, please add the -f cms_custom-ports.yml flag as normal if you are using those templates instead of the standard files (eg docker-compose…

Then once all is well and you’re on MySQL 5.7, you can upgrade to Xibo 4.2.0, and with it MySQL 8.0.