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Topic : Update all Outdated Installations with one click from WHM


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Posted By: aboutnet on November 11, 2011, 12:46 pm
Hello , must have a Mass update button for all Outdated Installations now we have only email notifications. it is difficult to do one by one.
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Thank you

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Posted By: Brijesh on November 14, 2011, 7:49 am | Post: 1
Hi,

We will be adding this feature soon.

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Posted By: sitebee on November 22, 2011, 5:21 pm | Post: 2
Im not too sure about that, It could break websites, take wordpress for example if you have some custom mods installed forcing your users on the server could break their websites.

Try and explaing to them you forced updates on their website.  I bet that would lose some providers business.


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Posted By: aboutnet on November 22, 2011, 5:30 pm | Post: 3
Quote From : sitebee November 22, 2011, 5:21 pm
Im not too sure about that, It could break websites, take wordpress for example if you have some custom mods installed forcing your users on the server could break their websites.

Try and explaing to them you forced updates on their website.  I bet that would lose some providers business.


Sure but if you can have select box for every one of the sites ?

so if you want to update 20 sites you can select only 20.

i have 300 sites with joomla 1.5 now is 1.5.25 all our sites is 1.5.24 and we will updated it to 1.5.25 now i can go for every site to do the update but i want a mass button for all this or select all sites that i want to update with the latest version.



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Posted By: aboutnet on November 22, 2011, 5:33 pm | Post: 4
our company has managed services for our customers sites.

we managed joomla sites ( joomla updates , components , modules , contents etc.)

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Posted By: alons on November 26, 2011, 6:29 pm | Post: 5
Hi,

We are working on this.
There are many concerns with this that need to be addressed. It is a little complicated as it can break sites as well.
Hence we are taking into account every information we get.
But we are making this as we speak.

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Posted By: kenlyle on February 3, 2012, 12:22 am | Post: 6
This really is an important feature, especially for those offering managed services.
Is it available yet?  If not, what's the timeline?

Thanks!

Posted By: Brijesh on February 3, 2012, 6:28 am | Post: 7
Hi,

Sir we are working on it, we are redesigning the architecture of Softaculous to implement this feature.
It is going to take some time because we have many scripts. Once the architecture is ready we will be able to implement this feature.

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Posted By: kenlyle on March 16, 2012, 4:57 pm | Post: 8
Hey Brijesh, 
Joomla just released a critical update, 2.5.3 which fixes a security issue in every version after 1.5.x

This is going to cause substantial pain for your users.  We really need this feature, possibly with the checkboxes, as was suggested earlier.

I can probably clone my VPS and test for you.

Best,
Ken

Posted By: Brijesh on March 17, 2012, 6:10 am | Post: 9
Hi,

We are working and it might take some time because in some cases it might break the installations hence we need to take care of all the possibilities.

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Posted By: kenlyle on March 17, 2012, 4:41 pm | Post: 10
Brijesh,

It's possible that you are being overcautious.
Could you please explain how doing a series of updates in a loop would be different from a user interactively clicking the buttons, and visiting the update URL?

Also, consider that a decent host offers regular backups, and really good hosts have something like R1Soft CDP, which allows point and click rollback.  For Joomla, there is also an extension called Akeeba Backup which packages the files and database.

Certainly, in your license, you have no legal liability?  If you pop up a warning when the feature is enabled, and pop up a warning any time it is attempted to be used, that should be sufficient.  Indeed, you could decline to run or queue any automated version of an update that had not been run manually in the last 60 minutes....meaning... the WHM user is reponsible to run 1 update, verify the results, and only THEN, queue the other updates.

This doesn't have to be a tool that  our grandmothers could use, it's a tool for competent systems administrators.

Besides, I really miss this feature from my old Virtualmin server.

Please consider.
Thanks!



Posted By: Brijesh on March 18, 2012, 7:31 am | Post: 11
Hi,

Few scripts require to be visited after to upgrade the database and if the database is not upgraded it could break the site.
We will discuss the above points with our Development team and add this feature soon.

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Posted By: kenlyle on April 6, 2012, 5:49 am | Post: 12
If you *must*, use Virtualmin as your control panel.  Virtualmin Pro has handled mass update for a long time.

Posted By: kenlyle on May 3, 2012, 11:30 am | Post: 13
Yeah, but it's not brilliant to leave known security holes on your server either.  That's part of the challenge of hosting.

Posted By: aboutnet on July 10, 2012, 8:48 am | Post: 14
Any news from Development team about this  ?

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Posted By: Brijesh on July 10, 2012, 9:55 am | Post: 15
Hi,

We are working on this and will try to finish it asap.

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Posted By: likg on August 21, 2012, 3:25 pm | Post: 16
Hello,

Is there any ETA when auto-update feature is implemented? It would be quite logical to leave the final decision to the user. For example, offer to enable automatic scripts update (and keep it off by default) after installation of a script.

Posted By: Brijesh on August 22, 2012, 5:05 am | Post: 17
Hi,

This feature will be added soon.
Thank you for the suggestion regarding decision by user.

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Posted By: likg on August 22, 2012, 5:36 am | Post: 18
Do you have some kind of beta program in which softaculous users can participate? Core point is to test auto upgrade feature.

Posted By: Brijesh on August 22, 2012, 5:44 am | Post: 19
Hi,

We will let you know once the beta version is ready.

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Posted By: likg on August 31, 2012, 2:30 pm | Post: 20
Any ETA when beta with the auto upgrade feature is available?

Posted By: Brijesh on September 1, 2012, 8:27 am | Post: 21
Hi,

We will let you know as soon as it is done.

Thank you for your patience.

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Posted By: likg on October 9, 2012, 8:50 am | Post: 22
Hi,

Is there any development in this topic?

Posted By: alons on October 9, 2012, 11:38 am | Post: 23
Hi,

We have this working and we are still developing this.
I dont have an ETA on this, but I can assure you we have done some great progress on this.
And each version we launch is also competing this goal.
e.g. We have been working on the Backups of apps so that our Auto Upgrade will be able to backup an app with minimalistic resources.

We should have this soon now, but I cant give you an ETA. Maybe before XMas.

Regards,
Alons

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Posted By: aboutnet on December 7, 2012, 12:41 pm | Post: 24
Dear Softaculous,

Do you have any news about the Auto Upgrade?

Thank you

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Posted By: Brijesh on December 7, 2012, 1:01 pm | Post: 25
Hi,

Sorry to keep everyone waiting. But we have a good news that this feature is ready and should be available by next week. The version is in the testing stage.

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Posted By: likg on December 7, 2012, 1:08 pm | Post: 26
How we can participate in this beta testing?

Posted By: Brijesh on December 7, 2012, 1:12 pm | Post: 27
Hi,

At the moment it is in the internal testing process. We will let you know once we launch Beta version.

You can choose the Update preference as "Release Candidate" in the Softaculous Admin panel -> Settings for the "Auto Update Softaculous" field.

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Posted By: Brijesh on December 15, 2012, 2:47 pm | Post: 28
Hi,

The Auto Upgrade feature has been added to Softaculous 4.1.7 which has been just launched. Please execute the CRON command to get the latest package :
http://softaculous.com/docs/Immediate_update

This feature is in BETA stage at the moment. Please let us know if you find any bugs.

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Posted By: mylogon on December 16, 2012, 1:04 am | Post: 29
So, when would it run - with the cron, as I see no button to click and update?

Posted By: mylogon on December 16, 2012, 1:05 am | Post: 30
Oh, and does it autobackup the old installation?

Posted By: Brijesh on December 16, 2012, 4:55 am | Post: 31
Hi,

It will require upgrading the script packages which should be done by Monday.

Yes it does auto backup the installation before upgrading and if anything goes wrong it also restores from that backup.

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Posted By: ukhost4u on January 9, 2013, 10:06 am | Post: 32
Sounds like a really useful feature. I'm running 4.1.7 but I can't see this feature. Am I missing the obvious? If I go to Installations > Outdated Installations there are plenty that need upgrading (e.g. WordPress) but if I go to Installations > Upgradable it says "No results were found".

Posted By: Brijesh on January 9, 2013, 10:32 am | Post: 33
Hi,

This feature requires script packages to be updated and it might take some time because it requires through testing before updating the package for auto upgrade.
At the moment it is available for Elgg only. We are updating the script packages for this and will be adding it regularly.

And for WordPress it requires a change in Softaculous core so it will be available in the next version i.e. 4.1.8

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