Centric CRM 4.1 Released
Posted by Matt Rajkowski on February 9, 2007, 8:30 AM EST
The stable version of Centric CRM 4.1 is now available! Thanks to everyone that contributed to this release of Centric CRM!
If you are installing for the first time...
- Download and review the "CRM Installation and Setup" guide for step-by-step instructions of your new CRM.
- Download the Centric CRM Enterprise Edition, which includes a comprehensive web-based installation and upgrade process and is recommended for production installations.
- Developers can optionally download the Centric CRM Community Edition, which is available in source code form only, from the Centric CRM Subversion server. A readme is included which assists in compiling and installing the source code.
All of the scripts for upgrading from Centric CRM 4.0 to 4.1 (for PostgreSQL and MS SQL installations only) are included. Please review the included upgrade documentation.
If you have a version of Centric CRM prior to 4.0, then you must upgrade to 4.0 first, then to 4.1.
Before upgrading, follow these steps:
- Shut down your web application server.
- Backup your existing database! If anything goes wrong (which it shouldn't, of course) you will need to restore to your previous database.
- Backup the build.properties file in your file library directory (this is required for restoring).
- Make sure you have a backup copy of your current .war file.
- Copy the Centric CRM 4.1 .war over the existing .war (use the exact same filename as the previous .war).
- If a directory exists with the same name as the .war, you should delete this directory so that the application server doesn't get confused. It will recreate it on startup.
- Manually delete the precompiled JSPs by deleting the contents of Tomcat's work directory.
- Startup your web application server.
- After startup, navigate to the Centric CRM web application with your browser.
- You should be presented with an "Upgrade in progress" screen (if not, try refreshing your browser). Login with an Administrator account to proceed with the upgrade.
- The upgrade will modify your database, then present you with a status report.
- If all went well, then click to continue and you and other users can now login. Due to the number of JSPs included, you should restart Tomcat after precompiling due to an issue with Tomcat.
If you need your system back up right away, then shutdown the application server, restore the database, copy the old .war back into place, delete any directory with the same name as the .war in the deployment directory, restore the previous build.properties file to the file library and start back up. Your installation should be the same as before.
