Hi,
I have a working emoncms version 8.4 with some additional selfmade widgets. Working on a W7-computer.
Now I have seen, that there is a new release (v8.5).
On github there is some information, that only new setups should use the 8.5, because of incompatibility to older feed engines: timestore, phptimestore and mysqltimeseries.
I am only using this feed-engines: phpwfina, phpwfiwa, phptimeseries.
Data-exchange is only via input-api-interface.
Would you suggest to make an update?
Or is the benefit less than expected trouble?
Do I have to renew all Inputs/Feeds/Dashboards?
Re: Update from 8.4 to 8.5 useful?
Although I don't use a Windows OS, v8.5 will work fine with phpwfina, phpwfiwa, phptimeseries feed engines, and no you won't have to renew all inputs, feeds, dashboards etc.
I tend to continually update to the current version because slowly but surely most of the bugs are being ironed out and new features added, but if you are happy with v8.4 and it fulfills your needs, there is no need to update. The changes will be fairly subtle.
If you wanted to try v8.5 (whilst still keeping v8.4 as a fallback) you could always rename your 'emoncms' folder to something like 'v84emoncms', and make a fresh git clone of emoncms.
You can then switch branch to v8.5 (don't forget to add database details to default.settings.php and save back as settings.php).
If all is well, you can then safely delete the 'v84emoncms' folder and it's contents, or if it creates you problems, delete the new 'emoncms' folder, and rename the 'v84emoncms' folder back to emoncms, and you will be back where you started!
Paul
Re: Update from 8.4 to 8.5 useful?
Thx,
with your helping ideas I will give it a try.