Upgrading instructions

Follow these instructions if upgrading from a previous version of Roundcube Webmail. We recommend to carefully backup the existing installation as well as the database before going through the following steps.

Using the update script

There is a shell script (for unix based systems) that does the job for you. To use it, unpack the archive of the new Roundcube version to a temporary location (don't replace the Roundcube installation you want to update) and cd into that directory. From there, run the following command in a shell:

./bin/installto.sh <TARGET-FOLDER>

For <TARGET-FOLDER> you specify the path to the Roundcube installation which should be updated. The update script will then copy all new files to the target location and check and update the configuration and database schema. After all is done, the temporary folder with the new Roundcube files can be removed again.

WARNING: Make sure files have proper owner/group for your setup. If you use tar to extract the package, --no-same-owner option might be helpful.

WARNING: See Post-Upgrade Activities section below.

WARNING: If you use MySQL < 5.7.7 or MariaDB < 10.2.2 make sure to configure it with:

innodb_large_prefix=1
innodb_file_per_table=1
innodb_file_format=Barracuda

Updating manually

If you don't have shell access to the Roundcube installation or if do not run it on a unix system, you need to do the following operations by hand:

1. Replace all files in
   • bin/
   • SQL/
   • public_html/
   • program/
   • installer/
2. Replace the configuration defaults files:
   • config/defaults.inc.php
   • config/mimetypes.php
3. rsync the contents of the following folders from your installation directory into the target folder:
   • skins/
   • plugins/
   • vendor/
4. Update dependencies:
   • If you previously installed plugins through composer, update dependencies by running php composer.phar update --no-dev.
   • Install/update dependencies using composer:
     • get composer from getcomposer.org
     • if you want to use LDAP address books, enable the LDAP libraries in your composer.json file by moving the items from "suggest" to the "require" section (remove the explanation texts after the version!).
     • run php composer.phar update --no-dev.
   • If you use git sources or the release package without dependencies update javascript dependencies by executing ./bin/install-jsdeps.sh script.
   • If you use git sources, install developer tools using npm install.
   • If you use git sources, compile css files for the Elastic skin as described in the skins/elastic/README.md file.
5. Run ./bin/update.sh from the commandline OR open http://url-to-roundcube/installer.php in a browser and choose "3 Test config". To enable the latter one, you have to temporary set enable_installer to true in your local config/config.inc.php file.
   WARNING: See SQLite database upgrade below.
6. Let the update script/installer check your configuration and update your config files and database schema as suggested by the updater.
7. Make sure enable_installer is set to false again.
8. See Post-Upgrade Activities section.

<a name="postupgrade"></a> Post-Upgrade Activities

1. Check system requirements in INSTALL.md file.
2. If you're using build-in addressbook, run indexing script ./bin/indexcontacts.sh.
3. When upgrading from version older than 0.6-beta you should make sure your folder settings contain namespace prefix. For example Courier users should add INBOX. prefix to folder names in main configuration file.
4. When upgrading from version older than 1.4.0 make sure old files in configured temp_dir are removed. Since this version we use constant filename prefix and do not remove files not starting with "RCMTEMP".
5. When upgrading from version older than 1.7.0 make sure your HTTP server points to the public_html directory as a document root.

SQLite database upgrade

Versions older than 0.9 were supporting SQLite v2 only. Newer versions require database in v3 format. The best what you can do is to convert database file to the new format using command line tools:

sqlite OLD.DB .dump | sqlite3 NEW.DB

Other tools

In case you need to only update the database schema you can use ./bin/updatedb.sh script. For example, to update the Roundcube core database run:

./bin/updatedb.sh --package=roundcube --dir=SQL