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This section will help you with upgrading OpenMRS. These are the instructions for manually upgrading OpenMRS.
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The standalone package contains mysql, tomcat, and openmrs. You simply need to copy the old database to your new unzipped standalone folder and let openmrs ugprade it.
Download/unzip new standalone version
Copy the "database/data" folder from old standalone to new, overwriting the new completely
Stop the old standalone
Start the new standalone
Upon visiting openmrs now, you will see a Maintenance wizard as in "Step 6 - Approve database updates" above. Click update.
Notes
For upgrading to OpenMRS 1.9, there is an OpenMRS University notes about this that you should check out
Use the Validation Module before upgrading to check that all of your data is going to work on OpenMRS 1.9