Upgrading Drupal

I think UPGRADE.txt should be completed with instructions for minor updates (like 6.x -> 6.y).

It seems many Drupal users are having trouble with those frequent updates (for bugs and security), for them a very time consuming task due to the confusion between minor updates (6.x -> 6.y) and major upgrades (5.x -> 6.y).

The current UPGRADE.txt is in fact a procedure for major upgrades, with steps such as: switch to a core theme, disable all contributed modules, ensure that the versions of all modules match the new Drupal version, re-enable all modules, etc. For minor updates this is an unnecessarily long procedure.

See what some users are saying, for example:

So you don't disable all modules? You are skipping a lot of steps in UPGRADE.txt, such as disabling all custom and contributed modules.

I upgraded 6.6 -> 6.8 recently, and this was the most painful part... especially since disabling all modules requires multiple passes due to dependency issues, and you need to keep track of exactly which modules you need to re-enable after (and my site uses a LOT of modules).

(From the thread: Is a different approach in upgrading possible?)

Just upgraded from 6.10 (I think) to 6.13 and somewhere, something went wrong.

Admin page is there, error report page is there, index page is there. But the rest isn't. Any link I click sends me to a 404-page.

Folder permissions have been checked, upgrade.php ran succesfully, PHP has plenty (20mb) of memory, error page reports there is nothing wrong.

But there is, apparently, and I can't figure out what. The index page (I use it only for a blog) shows all the entries and book pages but the links are dead.

When upgrading to drupal 6.13 from 6.11 my site crashed when I turned back on the modules. I tried rolling back to 6.11 but I get

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: menu_load() in /nfs/c01/h04/mnt/44770/domains/spinsurance.com/html/sites/all/modules/menutree/menutree.module on line 38"

I also cannot log in as the admin I get access denied screen.
Please if anyone had any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated the url is http://spinsurance.com/

Hi there,

So, i have a weird issue here: I jsut updated from Drupal 6.x to Drupal 6.13. I was pretty glad because I got no errors and everything works fine, but the theme seems to be corrupted.

My theme is PIXTURE, and it's configurated to greens and all that information goes in sites/default/files/colors/pixture-xxxxxx. After the update, it looks like the CSS rute is wrong or something like that because there is no style information (white background, blue links, h1 and h2 styles.... etc).

Hi
Can I go from V 5.1 to the latest 5.19 directly?

Having just installed the update status module and scared myself... I've decided to update to the latest Version 5.19.
I thought I'd followed the upgrade instructions to the letter... but couldn't run update.php (it said I didn't have permissions, but I made sure I was user 1) and editing the file to force it didn't seem to work either.

As I deleted the original Drupal directory and copied in the new 5.19 files I figured all previous patches/fixes would be included in this 5.19 release. Am I right?

Hey guys

http://drupal.org/project/aweber

I'd love to have the aweber module ported from Drupal5 to Drupal6 for an upcoming site.
Is there anyone that is interested in doing this? I'd be happy to pay for the development time!

Contact me if you are able to do this kind of job...
Thanks heaps :)