Upgrade manual¶

There are two types of upgrade, i.e., major version upgrade and maintenance version upgrade.

Major upgrade¶

Clean database tables before upgrade

If you have a large number of Activity records in MySQL, clean the table before upgrading by following Clean Database. Otherwise, the database upgrade may take a long time.

For major upgrade, if you are using a Docker based deployment, please read the upgrade documents for docker based deployment. If you are using a binary package based deployment, please read the upgrade documents for binary based deployment.

Please check the upgrade notes for any special configuration or changes before upgrading.

Maintenance version upgrade¶

For maintenance version upgrade, like from version 14.0.1 to version 14.0.4, if you are using a Docker based deployment, just download the new image, stop the old docker container, modify the Seafile image version in docker-compose.yml to the new version, then start with docker compose up.

For binary based maintenance version upgrade, for example from 14.0.1 to 14.0.4, you can use the following steps:

Shutdown Seafile server if it's running
For this type of upgrade, you only need to update the symbolic links (for avatar and a few other folders). A script to perform a minor upgrade is provided with Seafile server (for history reasons, the script is called minor-upgrade.sh):
```
cd seafile-server-14.0.4/upgrade/ && ./minor-upgrade.sh
```
Start Seafile
If the new version works, the old version can be removed
```
rm -rf seafile-server-14.0.1/
```