July, 3 2026 Software Upgrade: Status Updates

[Patrick]

Hey all,

Just following up on this thread, as I thought it would be helpful to have some running updates as I upgrade our community software. All times Pacific (UTC -7). I will come back and edit this initial post as things progress. Thank you for reading and for your patience.

Patrick

July 3

4:09pm: I have mostly spent time today on backend checks that didn't require me to take the community offline, so that's why everything is running as normal. When I apply the update, and the site comes back, it might look different for a bit until I correct the design issues. Mostly, I expected this to be changing the colors to fit our normal KarateForums.com color scheme.

7:09pm: I am going to push the actual update to this weekend as it is a bit late tonight, and there's no rush. Please use the site as normal.

July 6

9:03pm: I decided to hold off a bit as I don't expect any trouble with this update, but I do need to be in the same place at the same time for an hour or two, which is tough when I am chasing my son around, but I hope to get it done this week.

July 8

2:25pm: I have been trying to get this done, but am having some difficulty creating the space needed to run a full backup prior to the upgrade attempt. Once I figure that out, I will process the update.

July 9

3:34pm: We appear to have the disk place issue sorted. Unfortunately, I have some other plans for this weekend, so I am going to go ahead and push this to next week. Thank you for your patience.

Edited Thursday at 10:35 PM by Patrick