7.3 To 7.4

Upgrading a custom CMS from using Hippo CMS release 7.3 to 7.4

New in version:7.3

Below you find a list of upgrade steps. If your project includes some specialities you may have to do some extra steps. You can ask your questions on the Hippo CMS forum.

 

The CMS 7.4 upgrade process is now simplified. You don't need to upgrade your content, this is handled by the CMS automatically. Also, if you want to add a new non-mandatory field or a new type, you no longer need to do an "update all content". Please refer to the "Adding a field or type" in the documentation on how to do that.

 

Only an upgrade of the CMS is covered in these pages.  If you want to make additional changes to document types or configuration, these should be postponed. When the upgrade has completed, you can start the update, either by using the CMS itself or by restarting with your own upgrade module.  When using a clustered deployment, make sure that only a single node of the cluster will perform the upgrade by stopping the other cluster nodes.  Clear the journal table in the database and index files when restarting the other cluster nodes after the upgrade.

	Preparation	Prepare the upgrade to make sure that nothing is lost in the automated upgrade by the 7.3 repository.
	Plugin Bootstrap And Upgrade	Howto create a bootstrap and upgrade modules for plugins.
	Upgrade Project Content	How to upgrade the (initialization) xml and cnd files to 7.4. These are the files containing initial content, document types and templates.
	Comparable Templates	Upgrade templates to be able to use compare version functionality.
	Comparable Plugins	Editor plugins support for the new editing mode "compare".
	Encoding Configuration	How to upgrade the encoding used by the CMS to encode node and display names.
	Browser Specific Stylesheets	The browser specific style sheets moved to the root plugin.
	Lenient Htmlcleaner	New attribute "lenient" for html cleaner
	Accepted File Extensions	Configure the acceptable upload file extensions
	Wireframe Configuration	The configuration of wireframes changed.
	Gallery Processor	The gallery (post) processor has been turned into a reusable service.
	Update CMS Web.xml	How to upgrade the web.xml in the CMS from 7.3 to 7.4.
	Optional Upgrade Of Production Documents	How to upgrade your production content when you want to get the new hippo:availability property.