Jamroom 5.3 is now out of beta!

Make sure and check out the (short) Blog post:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/blog/75/jamroom-53-is-released

Thanks everyone for your feedback and input during the beta! As a team we really appreciate it.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 05/17/16 09:27:55PM

Ok, so I'm a scaredy cat about taking the plunge just yet.

My concerns/questions:

1) Am I going to lose the hundreds of major and minor customizations that were done on both my old Core and on so many of my modules? (The customizations were done BOTH via ACP, and directly on the server...both by members of the JR Team and by myself.) What am I in danger of losing and what do I need to especially look out for?

2) would it be advisable to update only the Core first, and see how it behaves for a few days... before then slowly updating the modules maybe two or three at a time and checking that they haven't lost my tweaks?

3) what safety precautions can I take before updating? Is there a way to revert back if I see the Core update has wiped out lots of customizations, added custom functions, or style tweaks on my site? What's the worst that can happen?

Oh, and... Thanks for all you do!


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Do you have a dev site setup?

If you are really worried about it, you could setup a dev site, exact replica of your live site, then update that to 5.3 to see if you run into any issues.

If you are using a cloned/custom skin, and any modifications made to module templates/CSS were done via the ACP, you should be okay.

If you are not using a cloned skin, just don't update any skins. I don't think there are any updates to skins except the jrElastic skin anyway.

Hope this helps!


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Douglas Hackney
Jamroom Team - Designer/Developer/Support
FAQ-Docs-Help Videos

I believe you are using a custom skin? If so no - nothing changes.


You can, but I don't think there is a need to. JR 5.3 is not a NEW core - it's new features built on 5.2, so things that were working in 5.2 should continue to work the same (or better) in 5.3.


The problem with reverting is that you can't revert the DB changes, so in this case your best bet would be to restore from a backup if you find it doesn't work for you.

We've updated A LOT of sites from 5.2.41 to 5.3.0 - we've seen a couple small issues (mainly around the Marketplace giving you a 404 not found or something - cache reset fixes it) but so far I feel the upgrade is a smooth one.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Thanks JR team- I'm finishing a job by a tight deadline right now, but will have time in a few days to dip my toe in the water about this. I do want to update!
Thanks so much for the info and reassurances!


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Just popping in to say I updated the Core and all modules today, and most everything went really smoothly- it's done and I'm so happy and relieved!
Thanks a million to you JR developers for putting in so much energy and expertise.
And thanks too to the Beta testors who helped hunt down any bugs before the Beta got released- I sure appreciate it!
I'm seeing lots of nice little changes and fixes already, and I bet I'll be finding more in the days to come. Love the new Recycle bin, and I also love that our Admin forum posts are now showing up in the main page activity feed (yay!!), to name just the first two things that jumped out at me right away.




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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 02/18/16 08:51:00AM

Glad it went smoothly