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Upgrading ​

Overview ​

If you've installed Cachet using Git, the upgrade process should be straightforward, usually taking just a few minutes.

Maintenance mode ​

It's good practise to put your status page into maintenance mode. This changes your status page to show a "Maintenance Mode" message until the upgrade has completed.

Run the snippet from your Cachet's root directory (where an artisan file exists):

bash
php artisan down

Fetch latest code ​

Upgrading with Git is as easy as:

bash
git fetch origin
git tag -l
git checkout LATEST_TAG

Upgrading dependencies ​

Next, we need to upgrade our dependencies. These usually contain bug fixes, performance enhancements and new features.

Run the snippet from your Cachet's root directory (where an artisan file exists):

bash
composer install --no-dev -o

Update Cachet ​

We now need to instruct Cachet to run any pending updates:

bash
php artisan app:update

Turn off maintenance mode ​

Finally, we can turn off maintenance mode:

bash
php artisan up