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SMF 2.1.0 Released

Started by Sesquipedalian, February 09, 2022, 12:42:51 PM

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Congratulations and Thank you Everyone

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pocttopus

Congratulations.
Can I update from RC4 to Final or needs to use clean install?

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

You can do a large upgrade, no patch install available though.
Slava
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Pogo Stick

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Thank you and congratulations to everyone at SMF!

I upgraded my forum from 2.0 to 2.1 RC4 last October and, today, to 2.1 final. Everything went smoothly by using the "Large Upgrade" package and doing a manual copy of files.

Just a simple question - going forward will future 2.1.x updates also have to be applied in the same way?

pocttopus

Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 10, 2022, 04:41:09 AMYou can do a large upgrade, no patch install available though.
Thanks, I have done this without any issues. The easiest upgrade so far.   ;)

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

Quote from: Pogo Stick on February 10, 2022, 04:58:14 AMJust a simple question - going forward will future 2.1.x updates also have to be applied in the same way?
No that's just the routine for RC versions. Any future updates should have patches available :)
Slava
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Quote from: noquiexis on February 10, 2022, 01:18:01 AMBy the way, the English_pirate Language pack is cute! Someone had fun working that one up!  8)  ;)
I've been using that pack on this site for about a year now. :D

DenDen60

Quote from: noquiexis on February 09, 2022, 10:03:56 PMThe James Webb Space Telescope took a while to finish. SMF 2.1.0 took a while to finish. We can expect great things from both! Congratulations to the entire SMF development team!

From the interactions of 1s and 0s to the interactions of protons and electrons there is a large gap, ;-) but yes 2.1 is a good leap forward. 

adp

Great job everyone  ;D

Doctor Asp

Yeah! Finally! Happy days! Thank you!  :)  :)  :)
/Doctor Asp

Trekkie101

Congrats! Impressive to see it live!

Matthias

Congratulations!
We've been waiting for the final version 2.1 for quite a long time. Thank you for your work.
Quality first

noquiexis

     A couple of people asked about upgrading from SMF 2.1RC4, so this is only a reminder.
Using Release Candidates!
"It is also important to note that between release candidates, SMF does not release update packages."

     This means the Large Upgrade must be used. The Full Install package is not necessary on an existing SMF2.1RCx installation, and will likely delete your "Settings.php" file, so BACK IT UP!!!

Upgrading
"Please note that when using the large upgrade, all the mods that you have installed will have their edits to files removed."

     I had a few themes installed on my smf2.1RC4 installation. After the Large Upgrade, they were gone. Apparently, the Large Upgrade package replaced the "Themes" directory ("Folder"), but that is OK. One of the themes did not work as planned, so I may try to re-install that one to see if I messed up.

     Backing up your files before doing a Large Upgrade will allow you to keep, and then re-apply, any file edits that you made.

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 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

    William Wordsworth

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shadav

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kdmiller

I'm guessing you can't do the easy method of installing via the package manager.

An Error Has Occurred!
Package upload failed due to the following error:
"Although the package was downloaded to the server it appears to be empty. Please check the Packages directory, and the "temp" sub-directory are both writable. If you continue to experience this problem you should try extracting the package on your PC and uploading the extracted files into a subdirectory in your Packages directory and try again. For example, if the package was called shout.tar.gz you should:
1) Download the package to your local PC and extract it into files.
2) Using an FTP client create a new directory in your "Packages" folder, in this example you may call it "shout".
3) Upload all the files from the extracted package to this directory.
4) Go back to the package manager browse page and the package will be automatically found by SMF."

Shades.

This not a patch so you have to download the large upgrade.


Quote from: Sesquipedalian on February 09, 2022, 12:42:51 PMHow to upgrade to SMF 2.1

You can upgrade to SMF 2.1 from any previous version using the "Large Upgrade" package from the Download page.
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Quote from: kdmiller on February 10, 2022, 04:51:51 PMI'm guessing you can't do the easy method of installing via the package manager.

An Error Has Occurred!
Package upload failed due to the following error:
"Although the package was downloaded to the server it appears to be empty. Please check the Packages directory, and the "temp" sub-directory are both writable. If you continue to experience this problem you should try extracting the package on your PC and uploading the extracted files into a subdirectory in your Packages directory and try again. For example, if the package was called shout.tar.gz you should:
1) Download the package to your local PC and extract it into files.
2) Using an FTP client create a new directory in your "Packages" folder, in this example you may call it "shout".
3) Upload all the files from the extracted package to this directory.
4) Go back to the package manager browse page and the package will be automatically found by SMF."

Please read the opening post - this isn't a support topic.

Steve

I was wondering how long it would take ...
DO NOT pm me for support!

Matthew K.


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