Upgrading Gitea

pkouvarakis

I have installed Gitea through Opalstack control panel and I have been using it for quite some time now. The version installed is 1.8.3+2. At some point I needed some feature that I realized was available in current version of Gitea but not in 1.8.3+2, but was reluctant to try an update as I have a lot of projects on it and don't want to mess it up. Hence the question:
What is the proper way to upgrade Gitea that was installed from Opalstack control panel? (besides the mandatory backup of course)

TIA
Panayotis

sean

pkouvarakis to upgrade Gitea:

Make a backup of your app. 🙂

cd ~/apps
tar czf ~/appname_backup.tar.gz appname

Rename the old Gitea binary:
```
cd ~/apps/appname
mv gitea gitea.old
```

Download the new Gitea linux-amd64 binary. I recommend using the downloads on Github at https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases as the speed is much better:
```
wget -O gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v1.16.6/gitea-1.16.6-linux-amd64 
```

Set execute permission on the new binary:
```
chmod 700 gitea
```

Restart the app:
```
./stop
./start
```

The initial startup might take a little longer than usual if Gitea detects that a database migration is needed for the upgrade, but once it is up and running you're finished! 🏁

pkouvarakis

Thank you for your quick reply.

Upgrade worked like a charm.
For anyone reading this, in Opalstack, Gitea is configured to use Sqlite database, so backing up application files also backs up the database. If for some reason you have manually switched to MariaDB or Postgres you should also backup your database as well (just in case migration goes wrong).

Panayotis