Estimated Upgrade Time: 10-15 Minutes
WARNING: The upgrade process will affect all files and folders included in the main Canvas installation. This includes all the core files used to run Canvas. If you have made any modifications to those files, your changes will be lost.
You should always update Canvas to the latest version. When a new version of Canvas is available you will see an update message on your Canvas admin home page. To begin the update process, click the link in this message.
In your blog, navigate to /admin/tools and click DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE. This will gather all the data you have created or uploaded and save it to a .zip file on your computer.
Remove the blog project directory and delete the database.
Follow the 7 step installation process.
After you've completed the installation, you can re-import your data and uploads from the archive you downloaded from step 1. The fastest way to accomplish this is to use a database manager like Sequel Pro and import each file manually.
Because of the construction of the database, you may receive an error when trying to import the
post_tagfile. This is because thepostsandtagstables need to be imported first. Once those imports are complete, you can safely import thepost_tagfile.