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<head>
- <title>Upgrading to 1.2.4</title>
+ <title>Upgrading to 1.3.0</title>
</head>
<body>
-<h1>Upgrading to 1.2.4 from 1.2.3</h1>
+<h1>Upgrading to 1.3.0 from 1.2.3</h1>
<ul>
<li>If migrating from 1.0.0, see these <a href="upgrade.html">instructions</a> first.
<li>If migrating from less than 1.1.4, see these <a href="upgrade2.html">instructions</a> first.
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
<li>If migrating from less than 1.2.2, see these <a href="upgrade4.html">instructions</a> first.
<li>If migrating from less than 1.2.3, see these <a href="upgrade5.html">instructions</a> first.
<li>Back up your data and current Freeside installation.
+ <li>As 1.3.0 requires transactions, <b>MySQL's default <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/y/MyISAM.html">MyISAM</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/S/ISAM.html">ISAM</a> table types are no longer supported</b>. Converting to <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> is recommended. If you really want to use MySQL, convert your tables to one of the <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_types.html">transaction-safe table types</a> such as <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/D/BDB.html">BDB</a>.
<li>Copy the <i>invoice_template</i> file from the <i>conf/</i> directory in the distribution to your <a href="config.html">configuration directory</a>.
<li>Install the <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Text/">Text-Template</a> Perl module.
<li>Apply the following changes to your database:
@@ -40,6 +41,17 @@ ALTER TABLE part_svc ADD svc_acct__seconds_flag char(1) NULL;
ALTER TABLE prepay_credit ADD seconds integer NULL;
</pre>
+ <li>If your database supports dropping columns:
+<pre>
+ALTER TABLE cust_bill DROP owed;
+ALTER TABLE cust_credit DROP credited;
+</pre>
+ Or, if your database does not support dropping columns, you can do this:
+<pre>
+ALTER TABLE cust_bill CHANGE owed depriciated decimal(10,2);
+ALTER TABLE cust_credit CHANGE credited depriciated2 decimal(10,2);
+</pre>
+
<li>Copy or symlink htdocs to the new copy.
<li>Remove the symlink or directory <i>(your_site_perl_directory)</i>/FS.
<li>Change to the FS directory in the new tarball, and build and install the