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This page lists the changes to the webservers of ULYSSIS in the summer of 2022, and how you can prepare for it. If any of these
instructions are not clear to you, or if you have some more questions about the changes, '''don't hesitate to e-mail us at [mailto:ulyssis@ulyssis.org ulyssis@ulyssis.org]'''.

== When are the changes planned? ==

These changes are planned in the weekend of 17 and 18 September.

== What will change? ==

We will upgrade the Ubuntu release on our servers from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. This will include newer version of many services. An overview of the most important version changes can be found below. For other services/packages, you can always use the [https://packages.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu Package Search]. The distribution name for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is "jammy".

* PHP will be updated from 7.4 to 8.1. If you host your own PHP website, you might want to check out these guides:
** [https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.php Migrating from PHP 7.4.x to PHP 8.0.x]
** [https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration81.php Migrating from PHP 8.0.x to PHP 8.1.x]
* PostgreSQL will be updated from 12 to 14
* MariaDB (MySQL) will be updated from 10.3.22 to 10.6.7
* Python will be updated from 3.8 to 3.10

Note that any existing Python virtual environments in use will need to be recreated in order to function properly.