Upgrade

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  1. Login to your Noodle as the 'admin' user and press the upgrade button in System Tools > Settings > General > License.

Manual upgrade after 7.08.20:

  1. Replace ROOT.war
  2. Optionally upgrade Tomcat.
  3. Restart the Noodle service

Version specifics

  • If upgrading from Noodle 6.07.13 (2009-07-24) or before
    • Java 8+ is required
    • and using Microsoft SQL Server, version 2012+ is required.
  • If upgrading from Noodle 7.08.20 (2021-06-22) or before
    • Java 11+ is required
    • and using Linux
      • restart the service after the upgrade
    • and using Windows
      • move are replace intranet.bat_new to intranet.bat
      • move enhydra/ to Backup*/
      • restart the service after the upgrade
  • If upgrading from Noodle 7.14.03 (2025-05-02) or before
    • and using Windows, kill is required in place of service stop (but not restart).

Notes

  • Major updates, are announced in the newsletter, and may be warned about on the login page.
  • Changes are listed in the version history.
  • The LTS branch changes annually.
  • The release branch changes monthly.
  • Changes to the 2nd part of the version number indicates the database schema has changed.
  • Custom scripts and CSS should be verified to be working after each upgrade.
  • Every version can upgrade from every past version.
  • A Backup is advisable before each upgrade.
  • It is advisable to upgrade the OS, JRE, and RDBMS before each Noodle upgrade.

Current Versions