Fellow travelers: I successfully upgraded from 1.3.16 to 1.5.x on my production server (Ubuntu Trusty Tahr) this morning. Per the errata and best practices, I made sure I had good backups of “all the things,” disabled all plugins and ran the applicable shell commands to prepare for the upgrade, specifically:
- # pkill -KILL -f vlogger
- (per errata for 1.4.1)
- # service cron stop
- # service imscp_daemon stop
- # pkill -TERM -f imscp
- (per errata for 1.4.6)
Initially, I had planned to upgrade to 1.5.3 (the current stable release at this time), however this upgrade was stymied by a recently discovered issue with Composer. Thankfully, the current development release (1.5.x) addresses this issue, resulting in a trouble-free direct upgrade.
My advice: Follow best practices (make your backups), read the errata, and should you hit a hitch—DON’T PANIC! This forum is your friend.