[Geoserver-users] Upgrade Path

Sean_Sweeney · May 21, 2024, 3:15pm

Good morning,

We currently run Geoserver 2.10 in AWS with a Postgres 11.22 engine providing DB service. Last month AWS started charging a support fee for out-of-date DB engine versions, so we are looking at upgrading.

If I simply upgrade the engine to 14.10, (not even to the latest, just to limit engine upgrade issues), and the POSTGIS plugin as appropriate, should this work? Or do I need to proceed with a full uninstall / install as stated in this doc: https://docs.geoserver.org/main/en/user/installation/upgrade.html ?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Andrea_Aime4 · May 29, 2024, 10:13am

Sean,
GeoServer 2.10 is so old that I doubt anyone knows what would happen. I’d strongly recommend to upgrade to GeoSever 2.25 as soon as possible,
if nothing else, for the numerous security fixes that were applied in the 15 releases separating them…
And yes, I get that might take a while, and that you should do it carefully with good testing with the existing client apps, but really, you should schedule this activity.

For the database upgrade, can you just create a copy of the database, upgrade the copy, and point geoserver to it, to see if it works?

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Sean_Sweeney · May 31, 2024, 1:14pm

Thank you for the input and those are good strategies on how to proceed.

After further talks we have discovered the system may not be as utilized as we were led to believe originally. After some review of network activity, we decided to switch it off to see what would be affected. So far no one has complained so we may not have to proceed with an upgrade and in fact just decommission the instance.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond!

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Sean,

GeoServer 2.10 is so old that I doubt anyone knows what would happen. I’d strongly recommend to upgrade to GeoSever 2.25 as soon as possible,

if nothing else, for the numerous security fixes that were applied in the 15 releases separating them…

And yes, I get that might take a while, and that you should do it carefully with good testing with the existing client apps, but really, you should schedule this activity.