Updating the engine

With a licence key — from the panel

Enter the key in “Settings → General → Updates”. When a new version is out, a notice appears on the dashboard; it leads to “System → Updates → Engine”, where the changes are listed. Press “Download and install”: the engine downloads the archive, checks its size and fingerprint, puts the files it replaces into `storage/backups/files-*.zip` and lays the new ones over the old. Your `config/database.php`, `config/local.php`, `storage/` and `public/uploads/` are not touched. Then the database updates itself: a backup first, then the table changes.

Without a key — by hand

Upload the new files over the old ones by FTP, open “System → Updates → Engine”, press “Make a database backup”, then “Apply”.

The engine installs nothing without your press

It only asks whether a new version is out. What goes to us is the site domain, the engine version, the PHP version and the licence key — nothing else: no content, no visitors, no settings. The engine does not download an archive that has no fingerprint.

If you do not apply the database

The site quietly runs on the old tables: nothing breaks and nothing new appears. That is why the dashboard says so in red.

Going back

Before an update the engine makes a database backup (`storage/backups`) and sets the replaced files aside. To roll back, return the files from the archive and restore the backup: the “Backups” page in the panel, or `php nex1on db:restore <file> --yes`.