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</head><body text="#485663">Hi Jan,<br>
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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.<br>
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The most difficult bit will be getting the php dependencies right before
dealing with the n<br>
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5.x requires PHP 7.4 (recommended o/s: Ubuntu 20.04)<br>
6.0 requires PHP 8.0 (recommended o/s: Ubuntu 20.04)<br>
7.0 requires PHP 8.4 (recommended o/s: Ubuntu 24.04<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.barryodonovan.com/2020/09/08/upgrading-legacy-versions-of-ixp-manager">https://www.barryodonovan.com/2020/09/08/upgrading-legacy-versions-of-ixp-manager</a><br>
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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.<br>
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"dpkg -l | grep phpX.Y" is your friend here.<br>
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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.<br>
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Nick<br>
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<span>Jan Ferré via ixpmanager wrote on 04/09/2025 09:41:</span><br>
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cite="mid:b7d5befd-a6d6-4be9-b3bc-da09667c419e@DeiC.dk">Hi IXP Manager
Users
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At DIX.dk we're not upgrading every day - not even every year.
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Actually the installed version is 5.7.0 - and now you're talking about
upgrading to 7!
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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?
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If doing a fresh install, are there a simple way to carry the old
database along?
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Best regards
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Jan Ferré
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