We upgraded from 1.8d to 14.4 on Solaris and the only problems worth
mentioning we encountered are as follows:

1. Under 1.8d, if you did a lot of editing of templates, like I did, you
may encounter problems -- such as getting the OLD 1.8d Login screen if
that template was edited before the upgrade. Other server-wide templates
that were edited under 1.8d could cause problems - I just removed them.

2. If you have List Owners who customized their home page, they will get
the 1.8d archives page with their cutomized pages still there.

The only problem we encountered was the "Server Archives" URL, prior to
login to any particular list, trying to find archives under a
"/cgi-bin/archives.html" directory -- I haven't solved this problem yet,
but after login, the "Servers Archives" URL in the left nav bar is
correct.

Other problems are just people being confused about what is and what is
not available based on your OS. For example, we run on Solaris and do not
send mail to a WIN box with LSMTP, so I had to edit the template to remove
the "mail-merge" button after Login again....just minor things to try and
make an easier transition.  We have never used change-logs due to disk
space problems and we purchased a lic to use the Scope feature which has
helped a great deal, but I haven't investigated if list change-logs are
included under list quotas or not; if they are stored in /home then they
are not.

At any rate, that has been our experience so far. Like others have said,
if you haven't edited templates it should be seamless to go to 14.4.
So many of the new features in 14.4 are what our List Owners have been
asking for!  This was a good move for us.

Aside: we also use Editor= x@y,(listname-L) and no one has yelled yet but
I will check!  I just recall a mention in the release notes that first
parameter must be an e-mail address - but that has always been recommended
as far back as I can remember.

--Trish

Trish Forrest
Queen's University

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Harpe, Shawn wrote:

> I have just completed this upgrade with different parts of it through
> this year. It seems that we have both taken the same path for the
> upgrade. I went from 1.8d right to 14.4 with no problem.
>
> Shawn Harpe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:40 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Upgrade path
>
> On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Al Lilianstrom wrote:
>
>> I recently inherited a 1.8d system running on NT. I've moved it to
>> Windows Server 2003 and have been planning a 1.8e install. Should I do
>>
>> 1.8d to 1.8e to 14.3
>>
>> or
>>
>> 1.8d to v14.3
>>
>> or ?
>
> Why not upgrade to version 14.4, which recently came out?
> Going from 1.8d to 14.4 should be no problem, especially
> since you're upgrading within the same OS. I went from 1.8d
> to 14.3 last January and from Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Linux
> with no major glitches. I am planning to upgrade to 14.4 in the
> next couple of weeks.
>
>