Need help with update from beta 14.1 to 15

Derriell

I' m new to Flarum. Recently I installed Flarum beta 14.1 on Ubuntu Server 20.04 with a few extensions. I followed the update instructions and

- uninstalled all Extensions which have no support for beta 15 yet
- disabled all other Extensions (also the stock ones)
- executed the commands given here

It seems that it did not work. The version in "Administration" is still 14.1 on the page.

It could be that I messed something up with file permissions. The Flarum folders are owned by the user www-data but I'm logged in as another user.

Here I executed the commands again:

$ sudo composer update --no-install --with-all-dependencies
[sudo] password for dario:
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Continue as root/super user [yes]? y
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Nothing to modify in lock file
65 packages you are using are looking for funding.
Use the composer fund command to find out more!
$ sudo composer require --no-update flarum/nicknames
[sudo] password for dario:
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Continue as root/super user [yes]? y
Using version ⁰.1.0@beta for flarum/nicknames
./composer.json has been updated
$ sudo composer install --prefer-dist --no-dev -a
[sudo] password for dario:
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Continue as root/super user [yes]? y
Installing dependencies from lock file
Verifying lock file contents can be installed on current platform.
Warning: The lock file is not up to date with the latest changes in composer.json. You may be getting outdated dependencies. It is recommended that you run composer update or composer update <package name>.
Nothing to install, update or remove
Generating optimized autoload files
65 packages you are using are looking for funding.
Use the composer fund command to find out more!
$ sudo php flarum migrate
[sudo] password for dario:
Migrating Flarum...
Nothing to migrate.
Publishing assets...
DONE.
$ sudo php flarum cache:clear
Clearing the cache...

And

$ composer info
axy/backtrace 1.0.7 Tracing in PHP
axy/codecs-base64vlq 1.0.1 Codec for VLQ (variable-length quantity) Base64 algorithm
axy/errors 1.0.5 Exceptions in PHP
axy/sourcemap 0.1.5 Work with JavaScript/CSS Source Map
components/font-awesome 5.15.1 Font Awesome, the iconic SVG, font, and CSS framework.
dflydev/fig-cookies v2.0.3 Cookies for PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface.
doctrine/cache 1.10.2 PHP Doctrine Cache library is a popular cache implementation that supports many different drivers such as redis, memcache, apc, mongodb and others.
doctrine/dbal 2.12.1 Powerful PHP database abstraction layer (DBAL) with many features for database schema introspection and management.
doctrine/event-manager 1.1.1 The Doctrine Event Manager is a simple PHP event system that was built to be used with the various Doctrine projects.
doctrine/inflector 2.0.3 PHP Doctrine Inflector is a small library that can perform string manipulations with regard to upper/lowercase and singular/plural forms of words.
doctrine/lexer 1.2.1 PHP Doctrine Lexer parser library that can be used in Top-Down, Recursive Descent Parsers.
dragonmantank/cron-expression v1.2.1 CRON for PHP: Calculate the next or previous run date and determine if a CRON expression is due
egulias/email-validator 2.1.24 A library for validating emails against several RFCs
fig/http-message-util 1.1.5 Utility classes and constants for use with PSR-7 (psr/http-message)
filp/whoops 2.9.1 php error handling for cool kids
flarum/approval v0.1.0-beta.14 Make discussions and posts require moderator approval.
flarum/bbcode v0.1.0-beta.12 Allow posts to be formatted with BBCode.
flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.14.1 Delightfully simple forum software.
flarum/emoji v0.1.0-beta.14 Convert text and unicode emoji into Twemoji.
flarum/flags v0.1.0-beta.14.1 Allow users to flag posts for moderator review.
flarum/lang-english v0.1.0-beta.14.1 English language pack.
flarum/likes v0.1.0-beta.14 Allow users to like posts.
flarum/lock v0.1.0-beta.14 End a discussion and don't let anyone add further replies.
flarum/markdown v0.1.0-beta.14 Allow posts to be formatted with Markdown.
flarum/mentions v0.1.0-beta.14 Mention and reply to specific posts and users.
flarum/pusher v0.1.0-beta.14.1 See new discussions and posts in real-time using Pusher.
flarum/statistics v0.1.0-beta.14 Add a basic statistics widget on the Dashboard.
flarum/sticky v0.1.0-beta.14 Pin discussions to the top of the list.
flarum/subscriptions v0.1.0-beta.14 Allow users to follow discussions and receive notifications for new posts.
flarum/suspend v0.1.0-beta.14 Suspend users so they can't post.
flarum/tags v0.1.0-beta.14 Organize discussions into a hierarchy of tags and categories.
fof/best-answer 0.2.1 Mark a post as the best answer in a discussion
fof/components 0.2.0 [NOT EXT] Reusable JavaScript components for your Flarum extension
fof/console 0.6.1 Register custom commands and task scheduling into Flarum
fof/links 0.4.1 Manage Flarum primary navbar menu links
fof/pages 0.5.1 Create custom pages with Flarum
fof/profile-image-crop 0.2.1 Allow cropping when uploading profile picture
fof/upload 0.11.3 The file upload extension for the Flarum forum with insane intelligence.
franzl/whoops-middleware 0.4.1
guzzlehttp/guzzle 7.2.0 Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library
guzzlehttp/promises 1.4.0 Guzzle promises library
guzzlehttp/psr7 1.7.0 PSR-7 message implementation that also provides common utility methods
illuminate/bus v6.20.7 The Illuminate Bus package.
illuminate/cache v6.20.7 The Illuminate Cache package.
illuminate/config v6.20.7 The Illuminate Config package.
illuminate/console v6.20.7 The Illuminate Console package.
illuminate/container v6.20.7 The Illuminate Container package.
illuminate/contracts v6.20.7 The Illuminate Contracts package.
illuminate/database v6.20.7 The Illuminate Database package.
illuminate/events v6.20.7 The Illuminate Events package.
illuminate/filesystem v6.20.7 The Illuminate Filesystem package.
illuminate/hashing v6.20.7 The Illuminate Hashing package.
illuminate/mail v6.20.7 The Illuminate Mail package.
illuminate/pipeline v6.20.7 The Illuminate Pipeline package.
illuminate/queue v6.20.7 The Illuminate Queue package.
illuminate/session v6.20.7 The Illuminate Session package.
illuminate/support v6.20.7 The Illuminate Support package.
illuminate/translation v6.20.7 The Illuminate Translation package.
illuminate/validation v6.20.7 The Illuminate Validation package.
illuminate/view v6.20.7 The Illuminate View package.
intervention/image 2.5.1 Image handling and manipulation library with support for Laravel integration
kakifrucht/flarum-de 0.13.1 German language pack for Flarum and its bundled extensions.
kyrne/ext-core 0.1.2 [NOT EXT] Extension branding
kyrne/shout 0.2.4-beta.1 Private Messaging for Flarum.
laminas/laminas-diactoros 1.8.7p2 PSR HTTP Message implementations
laminas/laminas-escaper 2.7.0 Securely and safely escape HTML, HTML attributes, JavaScript, CSS, and URLs
laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner 1.3.0 Execute PSR-15 RequestHandlerInterface instances and emit responses they generate.
laminas/laminas-stratigility 3.3.0 PSR-7 middleware foundation for building and dispatching middleware pipelines
laminas/laminas-zendframework-bridge 1.1.1 Alias legacy ZF class names to Laminas Project equivalents.
league/commonmark 1.5.7 Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark spec and Github-Flavored Markdown (GFM)
league/flysystem 1.1.3 Filesystem abstraction: Many filesystems, one API.
league/mime-type-detection 1.5.1 Mime-type detection for Flysystem
matthiasmullie/minify 1.3.63 CSS & JavaScript minifier, in PHP. Removes whitespace, strips comments, combines files (incl. @import statements and small assets in CSS files), and optim...
matthiasmullie/path-converter 1.1.3 Relative path converter
middlewares/base-path v1.1.0 Middleware to remove the prefix from the uri path of the request.
middlewares/base-path-router v0.2.1 A PSR-15 middleware for hierarchical dispatching based on path prefixes
middlewares/request-handler v1.4.0 Middleware to execute request handlers
middlewares/utils v2.2.0 Common utils to create PSR-15 middleware packages
monolog/monolog 1.26.0 Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services
nesbot/carbon 2.43.0 An API extension for DateTime that supports 281 different languages.
nikic/fast-route v0.6.0 Fast request router for PHP
opis/closure 3.6.1 A library that can be used to serialize closures (anonymous functions) and arbitrary objects.
paragonie/random_compat v9.99.99 PHP 5.x polyfill for random_bytes() and random_int() from PHP 7
psr/container 1.0.0 Common Container Interface (PHP FIG PSR-11)
psr/http-client 1.0.1 Common interface for HTTP clients
psr/http-factory 1.0.1 Common interfaces for PSR-7 HTTP message factories
psr/http-message 1.0.1 Common interface for HTTP messages
psr/http-server-handler 1.0.1 Common interface for HTTP server-side request handler
psr/http-server-middleware 1.0.1 Common interface for HTTP server-side middleware
psr/log 1.1.3 Common interface for logging libraries
psr/simple-cache 1.0.1 Common interfaces for simple caching
pusher/pusher-php-server 2.6.4 Library for interacting with the Pusher REST API
ralouphie/getallheaders 3.0.3 A polyfill for getallheaders.
ramsey/uuid 3.9.3 Formerly rhumsaa/uuid. A PHP 5.4+ library for generating RFC 4122 version 1, 3, 4, and 5 universally unique identifiers (UUID).
s9e/regexp-builder 1.4.4 Single-purpose library that generates regular expressions that match a list of strings.
s9e/sweetdom 2.0.0 Syntactic sugar for the DOM API with a focus on XSLT 1.0 template manipulation.
s9e/text-formatter 2.8.0 Multi-purpose text formatting and markup library. Plugins offer support for BBCodes, Markdown, emoticons, HTML, embedding third-party media (YouTube, etc....
softcreatr/php-mime-detector 3.2.0 Mime Detector Decoder
swiftmailer/swiftmailer v6.2.4 Swiftmailer, free feature-rich PHP mailer
symfony/config v4.4.18 Symfony Config Component
symfony/console v4.4.18 Symfony Console Component
symfony/css-selector v5.2.1 Symfony CssSelector Component
symfony/debug v4.4.18 Symfony Debug Component
symfony/deprecation-contracts v2.2.0 A generic function and convention to trigger deprecation notices
symfony/event-dispatcher v4.4.18 Symfony EventDispatcher Component
symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts v1.1.9 Generic abstractions related to dispatching event
symfony/filesystem v5.2.1 Symfony Filesystem Component
symfony/finder v4.4.18 Symfony Finder Component
symfony/http-foundation v4.4.18 Symfony HttpFoundation Component
symfony/mime v5.2.1 A library to manipulate MIME messages
symfony/polyfill-ctype v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for ctype functions
symfony/polyfill-iconv v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for the Iconv extension
symfony/polyfill-intl-idn v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for intl's idn_to_ascii and idn_to_utf8 functions
symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for intl's Normalizer class and related functions
symfony/polyfill-mbstring v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for the Mbstring extension
symfony/polyfill-php72 v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 7.2+ features to lower PHP versions
symfony/polyfill-php73 v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 7.3+ features to lower PHP versions
symfony/polyfill-php80 v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 8.0+ features to lower PHP versions
symfony/process v4.4.18 Symfony Process Component
symfony/service-contracts v2.2.0 Generic abstractions related to writing services
symfony/translation v4.4.18 Symfony Translation Component
symfony/translation-contracts v2.3.0 Generic abstractions related to translation
symfony/yaml v4.4.18 Symfony Yaml Component
tijsverkoyen/css-to-inline-styles 2.2.3 CssToInlineStyles is a class that enables you to convert HTML-pages/files into HTML-pages/files with inline styles. This is very useful when you're sendin...
tobscure/json-api v0.3.0 JSON-API responses in PHP
wikimedia/less.php v3.1.0 PHP port of the Javascript version of LESS http://lesscss.org (Originally maintained by Josh Schmidt)

Thanks

peopleinside

You could try setting their requirement to * in composer.json as suggested here.
Also before upgrade, disable summaries extension if you have.

luceos

Derriell best answer was made compatible with beta 15 as well. Make sure include it with a wildcard constraint (*) as peopleinside mentions. You can also check out the extiverse helper, it knows a ton about compatible extensions and will set your forum up to be upgradeable quite easily.

Derriell

The upgrade worked. I had to uninstall some more extensions, my bad, but I believe I did not see these apps in the extension overview (I uninstalled them before the upgrade process). This is probably a rights issue on my system, I have to run composer with sudo all the time.
I figured it out with this command:
$ composer why-not flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.15 fof/best-answer 0.2.1 requires flarum/core (>=0.1.0-beta.14 <0.1.0-beta.15)

$ composer show -D flarum/approval v0.1.0-beta.14 Make discussions and posts require moderator approval. flarum/bbcode v0.1.0-beta.12 Allow posts to be formatted with BBCode. flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.14.1 Delightfully simple forum software. flarum/emoji v0.1.0-beta.14 Convert text and unicode emoji into Twemoji. flarum/flags v0.1.0-beta.14.1 Allow users to flag posts for moderator review. flarum/lang-english v0.1.0-beta.14.1 English language pack. flarum/likes v0.1.0-beta.14 Allow users to like posts. flarum/lock v0.1.0-beta.14 End a discussion and don't let anyone add further replies. flarum/markdown v0.1.0-beta.14 Allow posts to be formatted with Markdown. flarum/mentions v0.1.0-beta.14 Mention and reply to specific posts and users. flarum/pusher v0.1.0-beta.14.1 See new discussions and posts in real-time using Pusher. flarum/statistics v0.1.0-beta.14 Add a basic statistics widget on the Dashboard. flarum/sticky v0.1.0-beta.14 Pin discussions to the top of the list. flarum/subscriptions v0.1.0-beta.14 Allow users to follow discussions and receive notifications for new posts. flarum/suspend v0.1.0-beta.14 Suspend users so they can't post. flarum/tags v0.1.0-beta.14 Organize discussions into a hierarchy of tags and categories. fof/best-answer 0.2.1 Mark a post as the best answer in a discussion fof/links 0.4.1 Manage Flarum primary navbar menu links fof/pages 0.5.1 Create custom pages with Flarum fof/profile-image-crop 0.2.1 Allow cropping when uploading profile picture fof/upload 0.11.3 The file upload extension for the Flarum forum with insane intelligence. kakifrucht/flarum-de 0.13.1 German language pack for Flarum and its bundled extensions. kyrne/shout 0.2.4-beta.1 Private Messaging for Flarum.

And this command uninstalled it (and same for kyrne/shout 0.2.4-beta.1)

$ sudo composer remove best-answer 0.2.1

010101

Derriell This will probably be the most common upgrade issue this go around. I think this was the same problem I had. Wildcarding extensions doesn’t help if the update fails the first time. You then get stuck until you figure out which extension isn’t compatible.