| id | title |
|---|---|
migration_guide |
Migration Guide |
Generally, the intention is that unleash-server should always provide support for clients one major version lower than the current one. This should make it possible to upgrade unleash gradually.
Before you upgrade we strongly recommend that you take a full database backup, to make sure you can downgrade to version 3.
You can also read the highlights of what's new in v4.
If you are upgrading from Unleash Open-Source v3 client SDKs did not need to use an API token in order to connect to Unleash-server. Starting from v4 we have back-ported the API token handling for Enterprise in to the Open-Source version. This means that all client SDKs now need to use a client token in order to connect to Unleash.
Read more in the API token documentation.
We have done a lot of changes to the options you can pass in to Unleash. If you are manually configuring Unleash you should have a look on the updated configuring Unleash documentation
We have implemented RBAC in Unleash v4. This has totally changed the permission system in Unleash.
Required actions: If you have implemented "custom authentication" for your users you will need to make changes to your integration:
- extendedPermissions option has been removed. You can no longer specify custom permission per-user basis. All "logged_in users" must belong to a "root" role. This can be "Admin", "Editor" or "Viewer". This is taken care of when you create new users via userService.
- All "logged-in users" needs to be defined in Unleash and have a unique ID. This can be achieved by calling "createUser" on "userService".
Code example:
const user = userService.loginUserWithoutPassword(
'some@getunleash.io',
false, // autoCreateUser. Set to true if you want to create users on the fly.
);
// The user needs to be set on the current active session
req.session.user = user;Only relevant if you use the enableLegacyRoutes option.
In v2 you could query feature toggles on /api/features. This was deprecated in v4 and we introduced two different endpoints (/api/admin/features and /api/client/features) to be able to optimize performance and security. In v3 you could still enable the legacy routes via the enableLegacyRoutes option. This was removed in v4.
Unleash no longer ships with a binary that allows you to start Unleash directly from the command line. From v4 you need to either use Unleash via docker or programmatically.
Read more in our getting started documentation
The notable change introduced in Unleash v3.x is a strict separation of API paths for client requests and admin requests. This makes it easier to implement different authentication mechanisms for the admin UI and all unleash-clients. You can read more about securing unleash.
The recommended approach is to first upgrade the unleash-server to v3 (which still supports v2 clients). After this is done, you should upgrade all your clients to v3.
After upgrading all your clients, you should consider turning off legacy routes, used by v2 clients. Read more about this option in the Getting started guide.
In FINN we used liquibase, for internal reasons, to migrate our database.
Because unleash from version 2.0 migrates the database internally, with db-migrate, you need to make sure that all previous migrations for version 1 exist, so that Unleash does not try to create already existing tables.
If you don't have a "migrations" table with 7 unique migrations you are affected by this.
Before starting unleash version 2 you have to run the SQL located under scripts/fix-migrations-version-1.sql
Using Unleash as a library and injecting your own config? Then you should know that we changed the databaseUri config param name to databaseUrl. This is to make sure the param is aligned with the environment variable DATABASE_URL and avoid multiple names for the same config param.