Upgrading from 1.8.33 to 1.8.38 — anything to watch out for?

Spam registrations dropped to nearly zero after enabling a good Q&A challenge.

I switched the cache store to Redis and the ACP feels snappier now.

Make sure you take both a files and a database backup before upgrading.

Code: PHP

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— always check for this guard in your own plugin files.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

The upgrade went smoothly for me, just re-check your templates afterwards.

Q&A captcha beat every image captcha I tried.

Cron-based task runs fixed my missed backups as well.

Redis works great, but file cache is fine for small boards.

The upgrade went smoothly for me, just re-check your templates afterwards.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.

The upgrade went smoothly for me, just re-check your templates afterwards.

Do not forget to disable plugins before the upgrade.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.

Cron-based task runs fixed my missed backups as well.

Do not forget to disable plugins before the upgrade.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.