Today the final release of BlogEngine.NET version 1.5 is released.
Kudos++
First many kudos to the project team for keeping it alive and listening to the users. The same goes to the team behind OneSoft.dk for their work on porting great themes, such as the one I am currently using. Excellent work and kudos++ to you all!
Personal note - one advise I would like to make to the team: keep it small, keep it simple and don’t ever let the project become bloated.
I cannot emphasize this enough. This is the reason why – just to name one unfortunate example - CommunityServer has dropped significantly in the public opinion.
Upgrade guide
Now upgrading BlogEngine.NET is a fairly straight-forward process. Unless you encounter problems such as the people who keep spamming me with “losing all posts after an upgrade”.
Therefor in a nutshell and as an addition to Al Nyveldt’s own upgrade guide, here the process described in seven short steps:
- Backup your entire project folder on the server
- Disable – or Stop - the IIS project
- After backup, delete all files and folders except the \App_Data folder
- Download BlogEngine.NET (web) project – as a zipfile - from Codeplex
- Extract the zipfile to a tempdir and disable the Read-only properties on all files and folders
- Copy the extracted files and folders from the tempdir to your IIS project directory
- Copy your custom themes from your backup – or upgrade them as well
And there you go!
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