Upgrading Signature

About Signature

Welcome to Signature, your go-to destination for knowledge and information! Signature is powered by BookStack, a versatile and user-friendly platform designed to streamline the creation and management of documentation.

Technical Details

Upgrade history

Version Date Location Upgraded by Description
21.12.3 2022-06-01 AWS [Version 9] Hendré / Christiaan Nel This version was set up in a container on Ubuntu 18.04
24.02.3 2024-04-26 Azure South-Africa Hendré Migrated from container to stand-alone on Ubuntu 22.04

Upgrading Bookstack

BookStack is updated regularly. The latest release can be found on GitHub here and detailed information on releases is posted on the BookStack blog here.

Before updating you should back up the database and any file uploads to prevent potential data loss.
Backup and restore documentation can be found here.

Updating is currently done via Git version control. To update BookStack you can run the three following commands in the root directory of the application:

cd /var/www/bookstack/
sudo git pull origin release
sudo composer install --no-dev
sudo php artisan migrate

In addition, Clearing the system caches is also recommended:

sudo php artisan cache:clear
sudo php artisan config:clear
sudo php artisan view:clear0

Check the below Version Specific Instructions list for the version you are updating to for any additional instructions.

When running update commands, your command line user will need permission to handle the required files and folders in the BookStack installation folder. You can find more details about required filesystem permissions here.


Revision #5
Created 30 April 2024 10:09:52 by Hendré van der Berg
Updated 30 April 2024 10:59:32 by Hendré van der Berg