Upgrading Ghost

[thomcrowe]

I deployed this and have a notification in my Ghost settings to upgrade to 0.11.7 but I can't seem to find out how to do it. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

[liberaltech]

I recently updated to 0.11.7 using npm-check-updates.

npm-check-updates is a command-line tool that allows you to upgrade your package.json or bower.json dependencies to the latest versions, regardless of existing version constraints. Make sure you back up your data and run tests before you deploy.

Install npm-check-updates globally

npm i -g npm-check-updates

Check dependencies

ncu

Upgrade Ghost to 0.11.7

ncu -u ghost@0.11.7

Update engines in package.json to "node": "^4.2.0 || ^6.9.0"

"engines": {
    "node": "^4.2.0 || ^6.9.0"
  }

Update "version" in package.json

"version": "0.11.7"

[bws428]

Is there an approved method for upgrading Ghost when using ghost-on-heroku? I cloned locally and successfully added themes, made style updates, etc., but using the above method to force an upgrade to Ghost v1.20.0 resulted in Heroku application errors, likely resulting from my failure to migrate the JawsDB as well. Is there a way to do this using knex or some other tool?

[bws428]

Solved. Per #119, I added the following line to my Procfile:

 release: knex-migrator migrate --mgpath node_modules/ghost

Now the Heroku release process runs on every deployment, upgrading Ghost version and performing database migrations if required.

[mars]

Added docs for ghost-on-heroku upgrades & migrations.