How to upgrade?

[mccune68]

I don't want to start an Issue for this, more of just a question. What is the best way to upgrade when you release a new version? I tried just doing a docker compose down, followed by pulling the new frontend/backend images, then docker compose up -d again, but that doesn't seem to be enough as it indicated I was still on 0.4.5 after doing that earlier today. I had to pretty much wipe out the local folder I had created with the installations git clone command, wipe the old images from my Docker, and re-install, but I imagine there is a cleaner way of doing this.

[itz4blitz]

Thanks for the question! This is actually a common point of confusion.

The issue is that the docker-compose.yml was using build: instead of referencing pre-built images. When you ran docker compose pull, nothing happened because there was no image reference to pull.

I've just updated the compose file to use pre-built images by default. Going forward, upgrading will be as simple as:

docker compose down
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

Or use the included update script:

Linux/Mac: ./update.sh
Windows: .\update.ps1

The pre-built images are published to:

GitHub Container Registry: ghcr.io/itz4blitz/logarr-backend and ghcr.io/itz4blitz/logarr-frontend
Docker Hub: itz4blitz/logarr-backend and itz4blitz/logarr-frontend

To pin to a specific version (recommended for production), set LOGARR_VERSION=0.5.4 in your .env file.