Hestia Control PanelOperating system upgrades
DANGER
Before upgrading your operating system make sure to make a backup! We do not provide support for broken operating system installations. We only provide this page for information about Hestia issues that may come up while upgrading.
General
INFO
Make sure to verify that MariaDB is running on a supported version for the new operating system. If that is not the case, update MariaDB version to a supported version before upgrading your OS!
Once a backup has been made, update Hestia to the last supported version:
apt update && apt upgradeFollow system instructions to upgrade your OS. When done, make sure to check that the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d are not hashed out. If they are, remove the hash and run apt update && apt upgrade again.
Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye
SHA512 password encryption
sed -i "s/obscure yescrypt/obscure sha512/g" /etc/pam.d/common-passwordExim4 config
rm -f /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
cp -f /usr/local/hestia/install/deb/exim/exim4.conf.4.94.template /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.templateProFTPD
Comment out line 29 in /etc/profpd/prodtpd.conf.
Debian 9 Stretch to Debian 10 Buster
No issues have been found in the past.
Ubuntu 20.04 Focal to Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy
TIP
Verify that MariaDB is running at least version 10.6. If not, first upgrade to this version in your current operating system! After that, comment out the line in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list and then upgrade your OS.
SHA512 password encryption
sed -i "s/obscure yescrypt/obscure sha512/g" /etc/pam.d/common-passwordExim4 config
rm -f /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
cp -f /usr/local/hestia/install/deb/exim/exim4.conf.4.94.template /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.templateProFTPD
Comment out line 29 in /etc/profpd/prodtpd.conf.
Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to Ubuntu 20.04 Focal
No issues have been found in the past.
Older versions
We haven’t tested the upgrade paths from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 or Debian 8 Jessy to Debian 10