[Mediawiki-l] New install of 1.10.1 vs. upgrade from 1.5

[Jim Hu]

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 at 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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