Overleaf CE 3.5.0 - Full Project History migration

[mserranom]

The 3.5.0 release of Overleaf Community Edition includes the Full Project History feature that is already available in our SaaS offering, overleaf.com

The new Full Project History brings several improvements for users:

• It tracks changes in binary files, which is unsupported in the legacy system.
• There is support for labelled versions.
• The system is in general more robust, there is less chance of data loss.

Check the instructions to migrate your existing projects to Full Project History

[wixaw]

Hi,
I have 76 errors on 6000 project, I sent you a report =)

[holyfive]

After upgrading to the latest version I keep getting these errors:

Migrate "20230512100122_ensure_history_migration"
Error: Error during migrate "20230512100122_ensure_history_migration": Found 923 projects not migrated to Full Project History
at exports.migrate (/overleaf/services/web/migrations/20230512100122_ensure_history_migration.js:9:11)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async /overleaf/node_modules/p-map/index.js:57:22
npm ERR! Lifecycle script migrations failed with error:
npm ERR! Error: command failed
npm ERR! in workspace: @overleaf/web
npm ERR! at location: /overleaf/services/web
*** /etc/my_init.d/99_run_web_migrations.sh failed with status 1
*** Killing all processes...

The container keeps restarting, so it is not even possible to try any migration command or something else. I had to downgrade the image.

Is that a known issue and how can it be solved?

[mserranom]

The container keeps restarting, so it is not even possible to try any migration command or something else. I had to downgrade the image.
Is that a known issue and how can it be solved?

You need to perform the migration using version 3.5.x (latest is 3.5.13). Only after all the projects are migrated you can update to 4.x.

Check instructions in https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/wiki/Full-Project-History-Migration

[holyfive]

Thanks a lot. Perhaps you should add a hint to the documentation that 3.5.x is needed as an intermediate step when using the "latest" tag.