Zimbra 9 Open Source is not updated

@arman Is the "Zimbra 9.0.0 OSE built by Zextras based on patch 41" build okay to use?

I am a little worried given there are two reports of issues with the "com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.upgrade.LdapUpgrade" tool failing, do you have any insight into why?

Are there any other pre-steps needed aside from the below MySQL command needed for this upgrade?

mysql -e 'update zimbra.config set value = 111 where name = "db.version";'

I will be upgrading an older version of Zimbra 9.0.0 OSE built by Zextras.
"Release 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS_20221203.RHEL8_64_20221216110429 UNKNOWN_64 FOSS edition"

Many thanks
Brendan

Hello @brendan,

About the "com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.upgrade.LdapUpgrade" we are still investigating. We will inform users later on.

Regarding the pre-steps, no other step is needed if you upgrade from our older builds.

Best regards.

Hi,

first of all: Thanks ZEXTRAS for providing a new build!
I am currently on ZEXTRAS_20231104 and what keeps me from updating is that I am not sure on whether I should issue the db value = 111 or not. Any chance to query this before updating to clarify?

Posted by: @arman

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About the "com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.upgrade.LdapUpgrade" we are still investigating. We will inform users later on.

@arman any update  on the above?

Thanks for the confirmation around post steps as well 🙂

Hi @mik, I'm currently on 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS_20231104.FOSS version (Oracle Linux Server 8.9). I've checked current db.version value and it's 112, so actually we should downgrade the value to 111, it looks strange. Could you check db.version value in your installation?

@dvg_lab sure, if you could let me know how to query this value?

@mik You can do it by this command:

$ mysql -e 'select value from zimbra.config where name = "db.version";'

# it should print something like this:
+-------+
| value |
+-------+
| 112   |
+-------+

Anyway.. I've just upgraded zimbra to the latest version 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS_20240927.FOSS followed the instructions and upgrade process fire the same error 

Updating global config and COS's with attributes introduced after 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS...failed.

Log file:

Wed Nov 27 22:15:00 2024 *** Running as zimbra user: zmjava com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.upgrade.LdapUpgrade -b 27075 -v 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS


--------------
com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.upgrade.LdapUpgrade -b 27075 -v 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS
--------------
invalid version: 9.0.0_ZEXTRAS

usage: com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.upgrade.LdapUpgrade <options> [args]
 -b,--bug <arg>    bug number this upgrade is for
 -d,--desc <arg>   describe this upgrade task
 -da,--descAll     describe all upgrade tasks
 -h,--help         print usage
 -v,--verbose      be verbose

args for bug 27075:
    {since}  (e.g. 5.0.12)

Wed Nov 27 22:15:03 2024 failed.

but it didn't interrupt the upgrade process and it ends successfully. 

Also I've googled for the error and found a few topics on this community with the same error on earlier upgrade processes without any reasonable answers. And also I've checked all of my previous upgrade logs made before this one. And yes the error is in the same place. Looks like the error is insignificant and we shouldn't pay attention on it.

@dvg_lab 112 here as well.
Thanks for sharing your experience, glad the upgrade went well!

I tried the update as well and mine went completely wrong.
I had the same LDAP error, but installation continued. While installing zimlets, load on the host went nuts and did slow down the process of upgrading notably.
Once install was completed services (IMAP/WEB) were not available. After zmcontrol restart same error.
zmcontrol status told me zmmailboxdctl is not running and amavis again was on very high load.

So I restored from snapshot and am now running on zextras_20231124 again.
That was scary.

I once more wished Zimbra would continue to maintain a free community version or would offer more inexpensive licensing. This is all crazy.

I did retry installing the update today but this time with:

mysql -e 'update zimbra.config set value = 111 where name = "db.version";'

Aside from having the same COS error - It worked.

But still: I wonder what is happening in the near future when Zimbra 9 is end of support, and ZEXTRAS Suite is not available for Zimbra 10...

@mik 

Hi,

We can totally understand your concern.

Over the time maintaining Zimbra 9 has become very complicated.

Zextras Carbonio has all the features of Zextras Suite and many more which could be more convenient for our users. But as a forum user I would be very much interested to understand your side of the story, challenges regarding the switch.

Feel free to use this forum to share your feedbacks with us. 🙏

Wish you a happy new year 🎉

Regards,

Sharif