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General procedure

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What to update

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Adding new Magnolia modules - the privacy modules

If you have an Enterprise license - add the new Privacy modules which helps you to adapt your websites compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Removing outdated add-on modules 

With Magnolia 5.7 we have removed a few modules which ere not bundled but added as add-ons. We recommend to remove them. 

Here is the list of the removed add-on modules:

• magnolia-jndi-1.0.2
• magnolia-module-newsletter-bundle-2.2
• magnolia-module-webdav-2.1.3
• magnolia-templating-samples-5.4.1

See also 

Webdav

Tomcat 9.0.8

If you are using Tomcat: We moved to Tomcat 9.0.8.

3rd-party libraries

Jackrabbit 2.16.1

If you want to run Magnolia on Java 8 or 9, you must use Jackrabbit 2.16.1.

• jackrabbit-api-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-core-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-data-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-jcr-commons-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-spi-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-spi-commons-2.16.1

Vaadin 8.4.2

If you come from Magnolia 5.5.x or even lower, please read the instructions to upgrade to Magnolia 5.6.x concerning custom modules and the widget set too.

• vaadin-compatibility-aceeditor-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-ckeditor-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-client-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-context-menu-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-expandingtextarea-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-server-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-shared-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-themes-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-tokenfield-1.0
• vaadin-server-8.4.2
• vaadin-shared-8.4.2
• validation-api-1.1.0.Final 

Other 3rd-party libraries

• commons-lang3-3.7
• freemarker-2.3.25-incubating
• groovy-all-2.4.3
• gson-2.2.2
• guice-4.2.0
• guice-multibindings-4.2.0
• jackson-databind-2.9.5
• jsoup-1.8.3
• mycila-guice-closeable-4.0
• mycila-guice-injection-4.0
• mycila-guice-jsr-4.0
• snakeyaml-1.21
• xercesImpl-2.12

How to update

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Recommendations

1. Update to your latest minor release version first before upgrade to recent major release. A June 2018 example: a customer is considering an upgrade from 5.5.8 to 5.7. The correct sequence would be: 5.5.8 → 

   Artifact resource link
   rangeHigherVersion 5.6 groupId info.magnolia.bundle artifactId magnolia-bundle-parent label $version renderType display_only resourceType POM

    → 

   Artifact resource link
   rangeHigherVersion 5.7 groupId info.magnolia.bundle artifactId magnolia-bundle-parent label $version renderType display_only resourceType POM

    → 5.7

2. Update all external libraries required by the Magnolia release to which you intend to upgrade.
3. Carefully look for "change" or "changes for ..." sections in the release notes since.
4. Because the upgrade process takes time and is vulnerable to incidents, please minimize the risk by cleaning up your system, removing unused data, reindexing everything and doing a full backup first.

Updating manually

1. Stop the application server.
2. Extract the new Magnolia bundle.
3. Replace JAR files in the WEB-INF/lib folder of your old Magnolia instances with new JARs from the bundle.
    Note that Magnolia 5.7 updates numerous 3rd-party libraries - see Java 8, 9 and 10 runtime compatibility and library updates.
4. Remove any module JARs you had previously removed from your instances. Add any modules you might have added.
    Note that we have removed a few modules from the add-ons. Some of them you must remove. See Removing outdated add-on modules.
5. Add new introduced modules - see Adding the privacy modules.
6. Optional: Delete all indexes to give them a little boost. Delete the index folder under each workspace directory: repositories/magnolia/workspaces/<workspace>/index. Indexes are recreated on startup, which might take a while depending on the size of your repository.
7. If you customized magnolia.properties files, compare the changes to the file in the new bundle. Properties may have been added and removed.
8. Read release notes for all intermediary versions for any additional update tasks.
9. Restart the application server.
10. Using your browser, go to the Magnolia instances and run the Web update.

Updating Maven managed webapps

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The magnolia.properties file

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If you have an Enterprise license - add the new Privacy modules which helps you to adapt your websites compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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With Magnolia 5.7 we have removed a few modules which ere not bundled but added as add-ons. We recommend to remove them. 

Here is the list of the removed add-on modules:

• magnolia-jndi-1.0.2
• magnolia-module-newsletter-bundle-2.2
• magnolia-module-webdav-2.1.3
• magnolia-templating-samples-5.4.1

See also 

Webdav

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Magnolia 5.7 can be run on Java 8, 9 or 10. The minimum Java version required stays at 8. We also took the opportunity to numerous 3rd-party libraries. 

You should you replace all the 3rd-party libraries listed below. We list the new version which you should add.xxx

Tomcat 9.0.8

We moved to Tomcat 9.0.8.

Jackrabbit 2.16.1

If you want to run Magnolia on Java 8 or 9, you must use Jackrabbit 2.16.1.

• jackrabbit-api-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-core-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-data-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-jcr-commons-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-spi-2.16.1
• jackrabbit-spi-commons-2.16.1

Vaadin 8.4.2

If you come from Magnolia 5.5.x or even lower, please read the instructions to upgrade to Magnolia 5.6.x concerning custom modules and the widget set too.

• vaadin-compatibility-aceeditor-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-ckeditor-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-client-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-context-menu-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-expandingtextarea-1.0
• vaadin-compatibility-server-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-shared-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-themes-8.4.2
• vaadin-compatibility-tokenfield-1.0
• vaadin-server-8.4.2
• vaadin-shared-8.4.2
• validation-api-1.1.0.Final 

Other 3rd-party libraries

• commons-lang3-3.7
• freemarker-2.3.25-incubating
• groovy-all-2.4.3
• gson-2.2.2
• guice-4.2.0
• guice-multibindings-4.2.0
• jackson-databind-2.9.5
• jsoup-1.8.3
• mycila-guice-closeable-4.0
• mycila-guice-injection-4.0
• mycila-guice-jsr-4.0
• snakeyaml-1.21
• xercesImpl-2.12

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