Version 4 supported
This version of Silverstripe CMS is still supported though will not receive any additional features. Go to documentation for the most recent stable version.

Upgrading

Upgrading to new patch versions of the recipe shouldn't take a long time. See recipes and supported modules) documentation to learn more about how recipe versioning is structured.

Patch upgrades

To get the newest patch release of the recipe, just run:

composer update

This will update the recipe to the new version, and pull in all the new dependencies. A new composer.lock file will be generated. Once you are satisfied the site is running as expected, commit both files:

git commit composer.* -m "Upgrade the recipe to latest patch release"

After you have pushed this commit back to your remote repository you can deploy the change.

Minor and major upgrades

Assuming your project is using one of the supported recipes, these will likely take more time as the APIs may change between minor and major releases. For small sites it's possible for minor upgrade to take a day of work, and major upgrades could take several days. Of course this can widely differ depending on each project.

To upgrade your code, open the root composer.json file. Find the lines that reference the recipes, like silverstripe/recipe-cms and change the referenced versions to what has been reference in the changelog (as well as any other modules that have a new version).

For example, assuming that you are currently on version ~4.8.0@stable, if you wish to upgrade to 4.9.0 you will need to modify your composer.json file to explicitly specify the new release branch, here ~4.9.0:

"require": {
    "silverstripe/recipe-cms": "~4.9.0"
},
...

You now need to pull in new dependencies and commit the lock file:

composer update
git commit composer.* -m "Upgrade to recipe 4.9.0"

Push this commit to your remote repository, and continue with your deployment workflow.

Cherrypicking the upgrades

If you like to only upgrade the recipe modules, you can cherry pick what is upgraded using this syntax:

composer update silverstripe/recipe-cms

This will update only the two specified metapackage modules without touching anything else. You still need to commit resulting composer.lock.

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