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Piotrek Karaś	Monday 08 October 2007 11:15:39 am Maybe it is little early to ask this question, but I bet it will become an issue very soon and at least a hypothetical answer should exist by now. <b>Is a relatively easy upgrade from 3.x to 4.x meant to be possible or planned?</b> If I put the facts together right, the early 4.x will be nothing more than 3.10 for PHP5. Shouldn't that mean that 3.x upgrade or at least some automated structure and content transfer should be possible? <i>This information may be especially valuable for people who expect a soon PHP4 withdrawal.</i> -- Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585 eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu
Paul Borgermans	Monday 08 October 2007 12:33:26 pm Hi Piotrek Upgrade is fairly easy: just follow the instructions up and until 3.10: database upgrades and scripts to run. As in previous releases, you may need to do that from release to release if coming from quite old eZ Publish versions. I upgraded a few already to find bugs (3.8 and 3.9 based sites), no problems encountered thusfar. I ran all the upgrade scripts within eZ Publish 4.0alpha1. An important requirement though (and which was good practise anyway before): database and templates should be UTF-8 An easy transition was one of the goals of this release! Regards Paul eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training http://twitter.com/paulborgermans
Piotrek Karaś	Monday 08 October 2007 12:54:39 pm Hello Paul, Thank you for your reply. So I expected, but now it's confirmed. I'm still little reluctant to applying multiple subsequent upgrades since we've encountered several post-upgrade problems in the past, and I am only talking direct x.x.1->x.x.2 sort of upgrades. But there's a chance we did something wrong - it was quite some time ago. Still, if there's no major change, that's a good point to start working on the upgrades or exports. Luckily, we've never had or wanted to change UTF-8 to anything else, so that's some help. Can't wait for stable 4 ;) <i>Greetings</i> -- Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585 eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu
SatyaPrasad Alamuru	Tuesday 13 November 2007 4:47:31 am We are developing a website for one of our clients using eZ Publish 3.9.3 and have to migrate to PHP5. We want to find out about the effort involved in migrating eZ Publish from 3.9.3 to 4.0 (as it is supposed to work with PHP5). Currently we are using the extension “Oracle Database 1.4” as the DB is Oracle. Here is the list of questions we have 1. What is the exact time line for the production release of eZ Publish 4.0 (currently road map states early 2008)? If the time line is not known now, Can we get an idea by when the exact time lines will be made official? 2. Will Oracle be supported by eZ Publish 4.0, as it is stated in the migration steps from 3.10 to 4.0 as “The eZ Publish Extension for Oracle® Database v1.5 and earlier (plus the upcoming version 1.6) do not work with eZ Publish 4.0.0 alpha2. Do not upgrade to 4.0 if your site makes use of this extension.” (mentioned in the URL - http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgra...grading_to_4_0/from_3_10_0_to_4_0_0) 3. Currently we are in the development phase of the project, given the tentative time line of 4.0 release, what should be the recommended approach? Should we upgrade to 3.10.0 and go to production and then think of upgrading to 4.0? Or we upgrade to 4.0 and then go to production? Any response to the above questions will be highly appreciated. EDIT: this question can be answered here: http://ez.no/developer/forum/developer/upgrade_from_ez_publish_3_9_3_to_4_0#msg153040