And furthermore, doing an SQL dump from 1.5 to load into 1.10 is
probably MUCH worse! An XML dump should work... but I've never tried
it from as far back as 1.5.
If something does blow up, I believe it is still possible to upgrade
to an intermediate version and then go from there to 1.10. But as
long as you've backed up, I'd add my voice to those recommending that
you try the direct upgrade.
Jim
On Sep 2, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Rob Church wrote:
On 02/09/07, Chris Knust <chris(a)knust-net.de>
wrote:
Thanks so much - I was convinced I had read in
some MediaWiki FAQ
that
I´d need to have intermediate updates if I update from 1.5 "only".
Putting it politely; probably some paranoid end-user who decided to
"helpfully" change the documentation to reflect their own experience.
There should, as MinuteElectron says, be absolutely no issues with
upgrading from any version of MediaWiki to any higher version. In the
past, people have been careful about the jump from 1.4.x. to 1.5.x or
higher, mainly due to the massive table changes involved, and the
possibility of various delightful issues arising from that, but in
general, that isn't an issue these days.
Rob Church
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