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Galaxy update SOP
  • read release notes and look for possible breakage, security fixes, new features
  • hg pull && hg update stable
  • backup Galaxy database (pg_dump -U > )
  • update Galaxy database if necessary (sh manage_db.sh upgrade)
  • search conflicts and resolve (check hg status)
  • merge config/galaxy.ini and config/galaxy.ini.sample
  • merge config/datatypes_conf.xml and config/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
  • in general all config files should be merged with the *.sample files - meld is a good graphical editor for this
  • run migration scripts (e.g. sh ./scripts/migrate_tools/0011_tools.sh install_dependencies)
  • Update all Tool Shed tools and install new useful ones (find new one on News Brief and release notes from the last month)
  • Write Galaxy-FR release notes and send to galaxy-users@...

See a more up-to-date list here: https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Maintenance

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