Upgrade Guide

Always take a backup of the Postgres database before upgrading libredesk.

How to back up the database

Dump the database to a file with pg_dump. This works for both Docker and non-Docker setups, since Docker exposes Postgres on localhost:5432. Replace the user and database name (libredesk) if you changed them in your config.

pg_dump -h localhost -U libredesk libredesk > libredesk_backup.sql

On Docker:

docker exec libredesk_db pg_dump -U libredesk libredesk > libredesk_backup.sql

Upgrade methods

Binary
Docker

Stop libredesk

Stop the running libredesk binary process.

Download latest release

Download the latest release and extract the libredesk binary to overwrite the previous version.

Upgrade database

./libredesk --upgrade

Upgrades are idempotent, so running this more than once does nothing.

Start libredesk

./libredesk

Stop the application

docker compose down app

Pull latest image

docker compose pull

Start the application

docker compose up app -d

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