Changeset 6807 for trunk/doc/src/docbook/admin/installation.xml

Timestamp:

Mar 26, 2015, 1:10:52 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Nicklas Nordborg

Message:

References #1924, #1927 and #1325. Added information about incompatible changes and things to consider when updgrading to BASE 3.5.

File:

• trunk/doc/src/docbook/admin/installation.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

trunk/doc/src/docbook/admin/installation.xml

@@ -47 +47 @@
 
     <important id="installation.upgrade.important">
-      <title>Important information for upgrading to the current release</title>
+      <title>Important information for upgrading to BASE 3.5</title>
       <para>
         This section list some important information that may or may not
@@ -56 +56 @@
       </para>
       
+      <bridgehead>Biomaterial lists have been replaced with item lists</bridgehead>
+      <para>
+        This is a major change that has caused a binary compatibility in the BASE core
+        API. If you depend on custom extensions or plug-ins that use the biomaterial list
+        API this code must be updated before updating to BASE 3.5. Read more
+        about the incompatibilities in <xref linkend="appendix.incompatible.itemlists" />.
+      </para>
+      
       <bridgehead>Consider updating to Java 8</bridgehead>
       <para>
@@ -62 +70 @@
         in the next version (BASE 3.6).
       </para>
+      
+      <bridgehead>Consider updating to Tomcat 8</bridgehead>
+      <para>
+        We have now tested BASE with Tomcat 8 and it seems to work without
+        any problems. Support for Tomcat 7 will be removed in the next 
+        version (BASE 3.6).
+      </para>
+      
       
     </important>
@@ -597 +613 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>
-            Download and install Apache Tomcat 7.0.30 or any later 7.x
-            release, available from <ulink url="http://tomcat.apache.org" />.
+            Download and install Apache Tomcat 8 (recommended) or 
+            Apache Tomcat 7 available from <ulink url="http://tomcat.apache.org" />.
           </para>
 
           <important>
             <para>
-              As of BASE 3.3 Tomcat 7 is required. BASE will no longer
-              run on Tomcat 6 or lower.
+              As of BASE 3.5, we are recommending Tomcat 8. Support for Tomcat
+              7 will be removed in BASE 3.6.
             </para>
           </important>