Upgrade Mattermost Team Edition

It is strongly recommended to create a backup before starting the update process. If you have important data, create and restore a backup to ensure that everything works properly.

Follow these steps to upgrade Mattermost:

• Stop the server:

    $ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop mattermost
  

• Navigate to the Mattermost installation directory:

    $ cd /opt/bitnami/mattermost
  

• Back up the current configuration files:

    $ mkdir ~/backup
    $ cp config/config.json ~/backup/
  

• Back up the database as described on the MySQL page.

• Back up the Mattermost data files:

    $ cp -r data ~/backup/
  

• Download the latest version of Mattermost:

    $ cd ..
    $ wget https://releases.mattermost.com/X.X.X/mattermost-team-X.X.X-linux-amd64.tar.gz
  

• Remove previous Mattermost files (already backed up in previous steps).

    $ rm -rf mattermost/*
  

• Uncompress the new version:

    $ tar xzf mattermost-team-X.X.X-linux-amd64.tar.gz -C mattermost --strip-components=1
  

• Restore the previous configuration file:

    $ cd -
    $ cp ~/backup/config.json config/config.json
  

• Adjust file permissions as below:

    $ chown -R bitnami:mattermost .
    $ sudo chown -R mattermost:mattermost logs client data
  

• Restart the server:

    $ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart mattermost
  

• Open the “System Console” and save a change. Doing this will upgrade your config.json schema to the latest version using default values for any new settings added.