MODX3 Personal Upgrade-Guide no.3

[halftrainedharry]

@sebastian-marinescu

How sure are you?
In 2.x it was always recommended to upgrade to each minor version before upgrading to the patch version.

Take a look at these topics:

Which 3.0.X version from 2.8.3/2.8.4?

When i plan to upgrade from 2.8.3 or 2.8.4 (on a cloned site): can i use directly the new 3.0.3 or is it necessary to upgrade at first to 3.0.1, then the following versions?

Update from 2.8.4 to 3.0.2 : property sets not following perfectly

My recollection was there was a version around 2.3-2.5 when the updated tables were added in the major version release but were not somehow included into the main branch and thus were omitted from the subsequent patches until identified. This did cause issues for people upgrading to the latest and getting permissions errors in a couple of views. I do not believe this issue persists but people do continue to take the x.0 upgrade approach. In my opinion, it’s just extra work. If you’re using 2.6.…

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@sebastian-marinescu

(in my case I could do without these Extras, so I removed them directly)

Doesn’t the method you described, leave all the plugins, chunks, snippets etc. from the extra in MODX?