Doc for updating openfire?

Openfire Openfire Support
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Currently running 3.5.1 on an ubuntu box and would like to update to 3.6.0a but not sure the how to do that? Can someone link me to a walkthrough?

Do I even need to update? No problems with my current installation as of yet.

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The update should follow the same procedure as the initial install. As for need take a look at the change log (http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/changelog.html) and judge for yourself. Keep inmind that future plugin updates my not work for you.

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I don’t even remember what I did to install it. There is no document that walks a user through updating their openfire installation? Do I need to uninstall the older version and re-configure everything? I mean if it works the same way I installed it I don’t want to go through the trouble of doing it all over again.

BTW if I wanted to backup my openfire installation what do I need to backup and what is considered critical? would I be okay with just the openfire.xml file?

TIA.

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So many questions.

  • All the documentation you should need is installed in the documentation directory of your openfire install
  • You do not need to uninstall first
  • I generally backup the entire openfire directory if I am running the embedded database, or an SSO configuration. This is actually the safest way.
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Thanks man.