Updating your Site

1. Create a backup of your database prior to updating
2. Put your site into "Maintenance mode" the update may take a few minutes (/admin/settings/site-maintenance)
3. un-tar and replace the file tree (stash the custom modules you have added in another part of the filesystem, then move them back after the new version is in place)
4. Run (/update.php)
   • Run all avalible updates
5. Revert Features, the easiest way is with drush by running (drush features-revert-all) or you can use the ui at (/admin/build/features).  The UI may still indicate that overrides exist, this is expected.
6. Clear the cache to remove any cached pages
7. It is now safe to remove maintenance mode if your site looks ok
8. Have trouble? Post to (#openscholar) on irc.freenode.net or (http://groups.drupal.org/openscholar)

Release highlights

• Performance Improvement, intelligent caching avalible by enabling modules (os_views_content_cache and os_blocks_content_cache)
• Many improvements in the wysiwyg interface
• Support for inline files / images /  oEmbed objects via the wysiwyg interface
• Pluggable modules to distribute publications to any SWORD repository (including Harvard's  DASH)
• Drush command "os-clearcache" (oscc) introduced to clear new block and views caches

 Full list of new features / bugs fixes can be found at https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/openscholar/versions/8

What's next ?

• Improvements in the Control Panel 
• Custom, configurable  widgets
• https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/openscholar/versions/23