taler-merchant.NEWS (856B)
1 taler-merchant (1.6.16) unstable; urgency=medium 2 3 Database upgrades now require explicit operator action. Before installing 4 a schema-changing upgrade, stop taler-merchant.target (on every host sharing 5 the database) and back up the database. After installation, run 6 taler-merchant-dbconfig for the standard local PostgreSQL setup, or dbinit 7 with explicit configuration and migration credentials for custom setups. 8 Start services only after migration succeeds. Do not use dbconfig -r: 9 it deletes the database. Scheduled GC no longer applies migrations. 10 11 Older packages may stop and disable the target during their removal phase 12 of an upgrade. Boot enablement is restored, but services remain stopped 13 until explicitly started. Subsequent upgrades preserve service state. 14 15 -- Florian Dold <dold@taler.net> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200