How to upgrade from 16.0.3 to lastest stable version? 19.0.0

Maintaining my Dolibarr
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How to do the upgrade?
I’m just worried about problem after upgarde.
Is there any step by step tutorial to do this 100% safe?

Thanks a lot！

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Hi @mic,
What is your environment? Is it a server? A local installation? Windows or Linux?
First thing to do is backup your db and documents folder.
Then you can either upgrade gradually 16.0.3 → 17.0.4 ->18.05 ->19.0.0
or directly from 16.03 → 19.0.0
To be safe keep your PHP version to 7.4

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Hi,
i allways use the same procedure on every update in Ubuntu, don´t forget BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP

UPGRADE

Installation - Upgrade – Dolibarr ERP CRM Wiki

  1. Start Putty

  2. cd /tmp/ && wget Download dolibarr-19.0.0.zip (Dolibarr ERP - CRM)

  3. unzip dolibarr-19.0.0.zip && rm /tmp/dolibarr-19.0.0.zip

  4. Sudo -s

  5. cd /var/www/dolibarr/documents/

  6. mv install.lock install.bak

  7. cp -r /tmp/dolibarr-19.0.0/* /var/www/dolibarr

  8. rm -r /tmp/dolibarr-19.0.0

  9. https://doli.demo.info/install

  10. mv install.bak install.lock

Works like charm, i am on 19.0.0 with PHP 7.4 and did this since 15.0.3 without any problems.

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I’m using ubuntu server
PHP 7.1.17
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.22,
Server version: Apache/2.4.27 (Ubuntu)
Server built: 2018-06-07T20:53:23

I dare not to upgrade…still hesitating…