Upgrading from 0.45.1 to 0.49

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Hello,

Been a while since I’ve upgraded, I used to do it for each release but been too busy to keep up to date.

Im looking to upgrade from 0.45.1 to 0.49.

Can any one see any issues I may run into doing so? I know there was on one of the upgrades where there was a change in automations and I needed to change something but I cant find that article explaining what needed to be changed. Does any one have a link to this?

Any other issues I may run into?

Thanks
Ross

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Newbie here, anyway I’ll have a go at this one :yum:

The answer to that probably varies with what components you have in your setup. E.g. in 0.49 there are breaking changes to Apple TV.

So, in your shoes I would run through all the relevant release notes on this category on the blog: https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/release-notes/

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Ah great,

That page helps! I can have a read through each upgrades release notes and see what applies to me.

I couldn’t find that page so thanks for linking it.

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There are some zwave entity name changes tomoook out for …

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I was just going to say that. There’s an easy way around it by setting it to use the legacy names until you are ready to update your groups, automations, scripts and anywhere else you’d use a zwave entity. (I’m still doing it!)

It’s in the breaking changes though, so you’ll see it.

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For a noobie, that was a great answer!

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Just have backup and if it doesn’t work you can always go back. I recently upgraded and had some werid problems that I finally tracked down to the denonavr code.

I ended up having to backport all of the denonavr code to get things going again because I didn’t want to fall behind.

Anyway, the point is I don’t think you can ever know if upgrading is going to bite you. Just be prepared to restore from backup and keep track of when and what you change because you may not notice the problems with the upgrade until a few days after.

I gotta get to my latte.

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Thanks for the help everyone, everyone is always helpful here!

I run HA on a Hyper-V environment so I checkpoint the VM before upgrading always. I do also have full nightly backups of my VMs so can always do a full restore too.

Upgrade was smooth and I’ve tested out my automations and everything seems to be running fine so far. Ill keep running on the snapshot for a couple days just to make sure there are no further issues before collapsing the snaps.

Thanks again
Ross