Hi there,
the moment has come to do the first instance upgrade cycle in the life of this instalation to bring this server to the actual #friendica stable version 2024.12-1 in the comming days.

In part the idea is to document every step in a post similiar to the howTo instructions:
Install and/or move friendica to ubuntu 22.04 LTS VPS server
in this post of our @edit profile.

Right now we are on:
2023.05 | release notes | friendica news forum anouncement and comments
so we will have to update step by step to:
2023.12 | release notes | friendica news forum anouncement and comments
2024.03 | release notes | friendica news forum anouncement and comments
2024.08 | release notes | friendica news forum anouncement and comments
2024.12-1 | release notes | friendica news forum anouncement 2024.12 and comments

Are there any specific recomandations or details to have in mind besides the information expected to be found in every update release instruction?

This is basically a single user instance with round about 14 forum pages with few followers each and a total of 18 profiles with contacts in the activityPub and diaspora community and some RSS subscriptions. No other specific conectors are enabled.

Installed addons/apps:
blockbot, calc, impressum, js_upload, notifyall, n s f w, pageheader, phpmailer, qcomment, rendertime, showmore_dyn, startpage

DB backups amount to ~180MiB and the image file storage folder on ftp around ~400MiB.

Friendica stable | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk - unlimited traffic
hosted by @ raroun

Specific notes on the existing 2023.05 installation and some issues it has apparently.

#friendica #fediAdmin