In the notes below [dspace] refers to the install directory for your existing DSpace installation, and [dspace-1.3.2-source] to the source directory for DSpace 1.3.2. Whenever you see these path references, be sure to replace them with the actual path names on your local system.

Upgrade Steps

The changes in 1.3.2 are only code changes so the update is simply a matter of rebuilding the wars.

  1. Get the new DSpace 1.3.2 source code from the DSpace page on SourceForge and unpack it somewhere. Do not unpack it on top of your existing installation!!
  2. Copy the PostgreSQL driver JAR to the source tree. For example: 
    cd  [dspace]/lib
cp postgresql.jar  [dspace-1.3.2-source]/lib
  3. Take down Tomcat (or whichever servlet container you're using).
  4. Your 'localized' JSPs (those in jsp/local) now need to be maintained in the source directory. If you have locally modified JSPs in your [dspace]/jsp/local directory, you will need to merge the changes in the new 1.3.2 versions into your locally modified ones. You can use the diff command to compare the 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 versions to do this.
  5. In [dspace-1.3.2-source] run: 
    ant -Dconfig= [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg update
  6. Copy the .war Web application files in [dspace-1.3.2-source]/build to the webapps sub-directory of your servlet container (e.g. Tomcat). e.g.: 
    cp  [dspace-1.3.2-source]/build/*.war
	[tomcat]/webapps
    If you're using Tomcat, you need to delete the directories corresponding to the old .war files. For example, if dspace.war is installed in [tomcat]/webapps/dspace.war, you should delete the [tomcat]/webapps/dspace directory. Otherwise, Tomcat will continue to use the old code in that directory.
  7. Restart Tomcat.