Manually Update

When a new release is available, HiTechAdmin shows a notification. A server with automatic updates on installs it by itself; this page is for updating by hand.

hitechcloudcli update --check    # report the available release; changes nothing
hitechcloudcli update --force    # update now, even with automatic updates off

What an update does​

The release is downloaded from mirrors.hitechcloud.org and checked against its signed SHA256SUMS before anything is installed. Then one ordered list of steps brings the server in line with the release, whatever release it came from: templates, panel binaries, the webmail, the customer portals that are switched on, and the services' configuration. Each service that needs a restart is restarted once, at the end, and the panels are checked to answer.

Customer data (website files, mailboxes, databases, DNS zones) is kept.

The full description, and the options that update only one part (--panel, --admin, --cli) or refresh one area's configuration (--clamav, --apache, --cron and others), is in hitechcloudcli update.

When an update did not finish​

hitechcloudcli update --repair

runs the same steps again from the release already on disk, without downloading it. When a panel does not answer after an update, read /var/log/hitechcloud/user/panel.log (2083) or /var/log/hitechcloud/admin/admin.log (2087). More in Troubleshooting.

Related​

• Check the installed version
• Turn automatic updates on or off
• Skip a specific version