Upgrading Drupal

Hi,
So I'm in fact using cvs version of drupal. I installed drupal from cvs just a week ago, I haven't done any update till now.

Then I went on the update.php page, and so I see I need to update the system module. In the drowndown box, by default is selected 110. And in the dropdown I can choose between 110 and 182. As I installed drupal from cvs just a week ago, it seems strange I have to update from 110.

So I tried the update (I made a database copy before), but then I have many warnings, and some queries failed. So I made a rollback to recover my backup database.

Below the result of the query, beware it is quite long...

Thanks

* user warning: Table 'search_total' already exists query: CREATE TABLE search_total ( word varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', count int(10) unsigned default NULL, PRIMARY KEY word (word) ) in /var/www/vhosts/min-de-nice.fr/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
* user warning: Can't DROP 'path'; check that column/key exists query: ALTER TABLE blocks DROP path in /var/www/vhosts/min-de-nice.fr/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
* user warning: Duplicate column name 'visibility' query: ALTER TABLE blocks ADD visibility tinyint(1) NOT NULL in /var/www/vhosts/min-de-nice.fr/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
* user warning: Duplicate column name 'pages' query: ALTER TABLE blocks ADD pages text NOT NULL in /var/www/vhosts/min-de-nice.fr/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.

I downloaded the 4.7.1 update, uploaded the files and ran the update.php file. My system works correctly, but I installed the "System Info" module and it reports I have 4.7.0, even though the change log file is that of 4.7.1. Fantastico also reports I have 4.7.0, but I don't put a lot of stock in Fantastico.

Does 4.7.1 correctly report the version number to System Info? Is there another way I can confirm what I have installed? My web provider is climbing down my back about security issues and I want to make sure it's correctly installed.

-dave

How far apart was the release from Drupal 4.5 to 4.6 and Drupal 4.6 to 4.7?
Is there a pattern? For instance: a new release every 12 months, or is it just random, as it is being devloped?

Thanks.

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Hello,

I made a full upgrade from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1: moved all the old files, uploaded all the 4.7.1 files and then uploaded the old dir and files I need: /files, .htaccess, /themes, settings.php, some modules

Do I need to upgrade the DB?

Last time I upgraded the DB (from 4.6x to 4.6xx) a huge list was available I couldn't make head or tail of.

How do you choose the latest update in that list? Perhaps it's very different now in 4.7.1?

Another glitch experienced with upgrading was with the subscriptions module. It started sending out notifications to 100's of folks not subscribed to anything every time I posted a new "story." I had to disable it, but I had several folks legitimately subscribed to stuff that now can't get their notifications either.

Reckon there's anything we can do about this?

I upgraded a 4.6.5 site to 4.7.0 and then upgraded contrib modules to 4.7. I see two collation types in my database, utf8_general_ci (all the new module tables) and latin1_swedish_ci (all the old tables). Should I make an effort to convert the latin1 to utf8 or can I ignore it?