The new 9.0 Seafile version is out. Time to upgrade. I’m currently running 8.0.16.
Don’t forget to read the release notes from Seafile.
Before upgrading
Reading the release notes, this version needs python modules. I also upgraded pip
sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install pycryptodome==3.12.0
sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install cffi==1.14.0
I had cffi 1.15 in my system, I had to downgrade:
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-cffi-1.14.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
ElasticSearch now needs to be installed and managed individually.
As I currently have the search functionality disabled I skipped this for now.
Upgrading
I started by stopping the services:
sudo systemctl stop seahub
sudo systemctl stop seafile
Then I downloaded the latest version (I use the pro version) and executed the upgrade script.
sudo -u seafile_user -s /bin/sh
cd /srv/seafile
wget "https://download.seafile.com/d/xxxxxxx/files/?p=/pro/seafile-pro-server_9.0.3_x86-64_CentOS.tar.gz&dl=1" -O seafile-pro-server_9.0.3_x86-64_CentOS.tar.gz
tar -xzf seafile-pro-server_*.gz
cd seafile-pro-server-8.0.0/
upgrade/upgrade_8.0_9.0.sh
To use the new golang file-server I add the use_go_fileserver option in seafile.conf:
vi conf/seafile.conf
[fileserver]
use_go_fileserver = true
Starting the services
sudo systemctl start seafile
sudo systemctl start seahub
See how to start seahub not as a daemon to see errors in this post.
I had to do this to find out I had to downgrade cffi.