Upgrade


General Upgrade Steps

With these steps, attachments and avatars are visible, with upgrade to WeKan 9.35 or newer Snap Beta amd64/arm64 (automatic updates) or docker-compose.yml amd64/arm64 or Windows:

  1. mongodump/mongorestore to MongoDB 7.x (6.x and older with LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
  2. If there is WRITABLE_PATH/ files attachments avatars, copy from /var/snap/wekan/common/files or /data/files to newest WeKan directory
  3. At WeKan 9.35 or newer: Admin Panel/Attachments, move attachments from MongoDB CollectionFS to any other storage to make then visible. Storage options are MongoDB GridFS Mongo-Files, S3/MinIO compatible, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage.
  4. Attachments and avatars load slowly from MongoDB GridFS, and load fast from Filesystem.
  5. After moving files to Filesystem, Admin Panel / MongoDB GridFS Storage / Compact MongoDB database to make it use less disk space.
Platform Rating Version Details
Snap Beta Newest
sudo snap list
Already newest.
Automatic updates.
Change from Candidate to Beta:
sudo snap refresh wekan --channel=latest/beta
Snap Stable 6.09
sudo snap list
Use above "General Upgrade Steps" to upgrade. More upgrade info
Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

.zip Bundle Windows/Linux/Mac
Newest If installing now, newest available.

Bitnami MongoDB Docker images do not exist anymore. MongoDump/MongoRestore to groundhog2k MongoDB images

Manual upgrade info
Sandstorm Old Wait for new WeKan version.

New WeKan version development In Progress right now.

Sandstorm Tempest Not available yet Tempest is still In Development.

It will be tried how to run Tempest, and see what it would require to have WeKan at Tempest

UCS Old Wait for new WeKan version.

New WeKan version development In Progress right now.

Friend Old Friend development continues at Kin. Current version is Kin-Legacy, and version in development is Kin-2. When it will be available, it will be tried what would it require to have WeKan at Kin-2.
ToroDB Old ToroDB is not developed anymore.

To replace MongoDB, instead use FerretDB/PostgreSQL.

Versions of WeKan


All of these are versions of WeKan, with similar web interface, same API, same features, same URLs, same environment variables.

Name Rating Status Details
Meteor 2 Jade WeKan Current Current version of WeKan.
Wami WeKan In Progress One of the upcoming versions of WeKan. Made with FreePascal. This works at all browsers.
Meteor 3 React WeKan Waiting for Meteor 3.3 One of upcoming versions of WeKan. Made with newest Meteor 3, Node.js and MongoDB. Waiting for Meteor 3.3 that may have fix for bug Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded that also happened with Meteor 2 WeKan.
WeKan Studio In Progress One of upcoming versions of WeKan. Made with https://redbean.dev. Currently testing code for large file uploads.
WeKan Multiverse Paused Other versions of WeKan. Paused, while working on above upcoming versions of WeKan.
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