[support] Upgrade to Drupal 5?

[Daniel Carrera]

Oh, 6.0 is imminent? When is it due? Normally how frequent are new releases?

Btw, thanks for the step-by-step. Very helpful. This is my first ever 
migration.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Ari Davidow wrote:
> Working from memory (we're in the middle of planning a similar upgrade), 
> this isn't necessarily very complicated.
> 
> 1. Upgrade to the last 4.7 release--that's mostly security stuff and 
> some minor (any?) table changes. You need to do that in all cases, even 
> if you don't go on to 5.x (but you probably want 5.x soon, since 6.0 is 
> imminent.)
> 2. Make sure that there are updates to all of the modules you need, or 
> modules to which you can migrate, to meet your needs.
> 3. Upgrade to the current 5.x . (Is there an "upgrade to 5.0" step? I 
> don't think so, but I could be wrong. You'll want to do this on a 
> test/dev site first, as some themes are likely to break, depending on 
> what you have customized how.
> 
> There seems to be some decent documentation on the drupal.org 
> <http://drupal.org> site. Look in the "tutorials" page of the "handbook" 
> section. Here's a useful Introduction to Upgrading: 
> http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction
> 
> ari
> On 10/15/07, *Daniel Carrera* < daniel.carrera at zmsl.com 
> <mailto:daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I have a production website that runs on Drupal 4.7. Should I move it to
>     Drupal 5.2?
> 
>     I'm concerned that migrating might be difficult, might be work, or might
>     cause downtime for my users. On the other hand, I'm concerned about
>     staying with an old software version that might become unsupported in
>     the future, and that migration might be more difficult later.
> 
>     My Drupal 4.7 site has several modules added on and I figure that these
>     might not all work in Drupal 5. My understanding is that backwards
>     compatibility is not a development goal for Drupal. So perhaps the best
>     way to "migrate" is to essentially re-do the website from scratch and
>     then copy all the content from the 4.7 site.
> 
>     I'm generally happy with Drupal 4.7. Is there any page that briefly
>     explains what's new and exciting in Drupal 5 that might make one
>     want to
>     move to it?
> 
>     Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Daniel.
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