Operating 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 upgrade

Follow 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 11 Bullseye to Debian 112 Bookworm

Exim config

rm -f /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
cp -f /usr/local/hestia/install/deb/exim/exim4.conf.4.95.template /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template

Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye

SHA512 password encryption

sed -i "s/obscure yescrypt/obscure sha512/g" /etc/pam.d/common-password

Exim4 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.template

ProFTPD

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 22.04 Jammy to Ubuntu 24.04 Noble

TIP

Verify that MariaDB is running at least version 11.4. 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.

Exim4 config

rm -f /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
cp -f /usr/local/hestia/install/deb/exim/exim4.conf.4.95.template /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template

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-password

Exim4 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.template

ProFTPD

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