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The table below also includes any special upgrade instructions that you should be aware of when planning to migrate to a new version. Please check for all special instructions between your current version and the new version. While the upgrade process for PhixFlow itself is quick, please use the table below to determine if you need to plan, with your IT department, upgrades to any other software.

Warning

We will discontinue no longer support for Oracle 12.1 (Oracle 12c Release 1) at the next major release.


PhixFlow Major Version



Databases Supported


Tomcat


Java Runtime


Database 
Drivers compatible with:

Browsers

Special upgrade instructions


Oracle

MS SQL Server

Maria DB

IE1Chrome2

Firefox2

8.0

12.2

2017

2016

10.3

10.1

8.58Java 8 / JDBC 4.2 API116659

Warning: Oracle 12.1 (Oracle 12c release 1) is no longer supported.

7.9

12.2

12.1

2017

2016

10.18.58Java 8 / JDBC 4.2 API116659

Warning: This is the last major release to support Oracle 12.1 (Oracle 12c release 1).

Mandatory: Due to changes to the logging setup, you must configure two new logging configuration files; see Configure logback.xml and phixflow-logging.xml.

7.812c

2017

2016

10.18.58
116659

Mandatory: Upgrade to SQL Server 2016 or later.

Mandatory: There are incompatible changes at 7.8.0 to the webapp configuration files in $webapp/WEB-INF/classes - simply copying the configuration files from an earlier release will not work. We recommend that you create new configuration files by copying the relevant templates and re-applying the necessary changes. See the release notes for more information on the changes and files affected.

7.7

12c

2017

2016

2014

2008

10.1

8.5


8
116659

We will support SQL Server 2008 until the end of 2018. At this point support for this database will be ended.

Mandatory: Upgrade to Java 1.8.0_151 or later and ensure that Java is configured to allow unlimited-strength security; see Install Java for details.

7.6

12c

2017

2016

2014

2008

10.1

8.5


8
116659

Mandatory: Upgrade to Oracle 12c

Mandatory: Upgrade to MariaDB 10.1

We will support SQL Server 2008 until the end of 2018. At this point support for this database will be ended.

7.5

12c

11g

2016

2014

2012

2008

10.1

10.0

8.5


8
116358

Advisory: If using Oracle upgrade to version 12c.

7.4

12c

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5


8
116256

If using Oracle 12c, update the phixflow-datasource.xml file to resolve an issue that can affect configuration imports; see Oracle 12c - edit phixflow-datasource.xml for details.

Excel File Collectors must quote worksheet names if they contain spaces and/or single quotes. This is not handled automatically by the upgrade process. See special notes for Excel file collectors at 7.4.0 for details.

7.3

12c

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5


8
116055Mandatory: Upgrade to Tomcat 8.5
7.2

12c

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5

8

7

8
115550

If using SQL Server, you need to update the SQLServer dialect specified in the phixflow-datasource.xml file. See: Release 7.2.0

7.1

12c

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5

8

7

8


11

10

55

50

Advisory: Upgrade to Tomcat 8.5

Advisory: If using Oracle upgrade to version 12c.

7.0

12c

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5

8

7

8


11

10

53

47

Mandatory:  Install Java 8.

Advisory: Upgrade to Tomcat 8.5

Advisory: If using Oracle upgrade to version 12c.

6.0

12c

11g

2008 R2

10.1

10.0

8

7

7


8.053

47


5.9

12c

11g

2008 R2

-

8

7

7


8.0-

-

Please see additional special upgrade instructions for this release at Upgrade 5.9.0

5.8

11g

2008 R2

-

7

7


8.0-

-


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