The 5.7 branch of Magnolia reached End-of-Life on December 31, 2023, as specified in our End-of-life policy. This means the 5.7 branch is no longer maintained or supported. Please upgrade to the latest Magnolia release. By upgrading, you will get the latest release of Magnolia featuring significant improvements to the author and developer experience. For a successful upgrade, please consult our Magnolia 6.2 documentation. If you need help, please contact info@magnolia-cms.com.
This page contains the information you should be aware of when upgrading to Magnolia 5.6.x from any previous and currently supported version, see the End-of-Life policy.
Before starting the upgrade, please read the release notes for the version you are updating to and all intermediate versions, the general upgrade procedure and the specific aspects. If migrating from Magnolia 4.4/4.5, please read migration documentation first. You can also contact us for migration support.
General procedure
- Stop the application server.
- Extract the new Magnolia bundle.
- Replace JAR files in the
WEB-INF/lib
folder of your old Magnolia instances with new JARs from the bundle. - Remove any module JARs you had previously removed from your instances. Add any modules you might have added.
- 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. - If you customized
magnolia.properties
files, compare the changes to the file in the new bundle. Properties may have been added and removed. - Read release notes for all intermediary versions for any additional update tasks.
- Restart the application server.
- Using your browser, go to the Magnolia instances and run the Web update.
Recommendations
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 →
→ → 5.7- Update all external libraries required by the Magnolia release to which you intend to upgrade.
- Carefully look for "change" or "changes for ..." sections in the release notes since.
- 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.
Adding the new 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).
The magnolia.properties file
When upgrading Magnolia - its is always worth to compare your magnolia.properties
file with the one coming from freshly released Magnolia bundles.
Here are the latest versions:
Magnolia CE:
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Magnolia EE Standard:
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Magnolia EE Pro:
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WebDAV removal
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Known issues
Other issues
For other known issues please see the Known issues page.