[ixpmanager] Upgrade path for lazy users?

[Nick Hilliard]

Hi Jan,

there's no major issue upgrading from 5.x to 7.x. You should upgrade to 
5.8.0 first, then upgrade to release-v6, and then upgrade to v7. The 
upgrading process from 6.0 onwards is much smoother.

The most difficult bit will be getting the php dependencies right before 
dealing with the n

5.x requires PHP 7.4 (recommended o/s: Ubuntu 20.04)
6.0 requires PHP 8.0 (recommended o/s: Ubuntu 20.04)
7.0 requires PHP 8.4 (recommended o/s: Ubuntu 24.04

https://www.barryodonovan.com/2020/09/08/upgrading-legacy-versions-of-ixp-manager

If you do an in-place upgrade, remember to purge the old PHP 
installation packages after installing the new one, as otherwise they 
will fight with each other this will cause weird errors in laravel.log.

"dpkg -l | grep phpX.Y" is your friend here.

As to which approach is easier (in-place upgrade or reinstall), both are 
do-able. I usually do in-place, but it's time-consuming - mostly due to 
the operating system upgrade taking a lot of time.

Nick

Jan Ferré via ixpmanager wrote on 04/09/2025 09:41:
> Hi IXP Manager Users
>
> At DIX.dk we're not upgrading every day - not even every year.
>
> Actually the installed version is 5.7.0 - and now you're talking about 
> upgrading to 7!
>
> As far as I read version 7.0.0 upgrades from version 6.4.x only - but 
> how many upgrades are needed to go from 5.7 to 6.4? And is a fresh 
> install a better choise?
>
> If doing a fresh install, are there a simple way to carry the old 
> database along?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Jan Ferré
>
>

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