Note on upgrade to Discourse v3.1

[ari]

It's wonderful to see the Cloudron packaging updated so quickly after the Discourse release! I wanted to share a few notes on my upgrade to v3.1, in case it helps anyone else.

First, I had to remove login.invite_only.validator (which was previously set to "EnableInviteOnlyValidator") from site_settings.yml in order to get the server to start after updating.

Second, one of the featured additions in the 3.1 announcement was the modular Discourse AI plugin. I was interested to test it out, but was unsuccessful in trying it. After adding the plugin and restarting the server, I got caught on this:

PG::UndefinedFile: ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/share/postgresql/14/extension/vector.control": No such file or directory

Looks like there is a Postgresql extension that needs to be installed/configured to use this plugin.

[girish]

Looks like we need pgvector extension - https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/162

[girish]

Looks like there is ready-made package for this extension, so this will be complicated to support. We can use postgresql apt packages maybe - https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector#apt but have to check what is the support guarantee for this (currently, we use ubuntu lts packages).

[nafets-lesierk]

@ari said in Note on upgrade to Discourse v3.1:

It's wonderful to see the Cloudron packaging updated so quickly after the Discourse release!

Installation version is still 2.8.14. Anything I missed?
Cheers

[nebulon]

The latest package has discourse 3.1.1 you may have to update your Cloudron first to v7.5

[jrl-abstract27]

Hi All,
My cloudron is at 7.6 but my discourse instance at 3.1.3. i'm trying to restore my discourse but :

I beleive i have to update the discourse or add the docker_manager plugin, but how to do so ?

Many thanks

[necrevistonnezr]

RTM?
https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/discourse/#installing-plugins

[jrl-abstract27]

@necrevistonnezr i this try this -> git clone <plugin-repo> but it didn't work

[jdaviescoates]

@jrl-abstract27 said in Note on upgrade to Discourse v3.1:

I beleive i have to update the discourse or add the docker_manager plugin

Why do you believe that?

https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager says:

This plugin works with the Discourse docker image.

Cloudron packages have their own custom images, so it's not at all surprising this won't work on Cloudron.

[jrl-abstract27]

@jdaviescoates Thanks, but then, how do i update the data ? I cannot update the discourse version and to upload the datas it says that i need a more recent version of discourse...