Upgrading

How and what on upgrades

OpenPLi distinguishes between minor releases and major releases. A minor release is when you upgrade from version 7.1 to 7.2 and a major release is when you upgrade from version 6.X to version 7.X. When you want to upgrade, minor and major releases must be approached differently:

Minor releases (so like 6.0 => 6.2) are updates, so updating will suffice! So Main menu > Setup > Software update

Major releases (so like 6 => 7) you must flash, preferably using the menu and choosing the backup option, then everything is restored after the flash. When there is no Hard disk present use an USB stick.

Release notes

When a release comes online, details of what has changed will be in the release notes. At current, the strategy is that before a release there is a pre-release or release candidate (RC). As this is not the release, there are no details on what has changed as the release notes will only come online with the release.

What can you expect from upgrading

Of course we opt for more stability, look and feel changes, corrections and when vendors have updated drivers they will be present.

Backup

As always before you upgrade anything create a Backup, although we test everything it's always best to do so.