Upgrading Elvis 5 to Elvis 6

• When the elvis-shared-data folder is a local folder instead of mounted, add the following setting to node.config.properties:

fileStoreType=local

• When making use of taxonomy, merge the elasticsearch/analysis.json file from the clean-example-config-5.1.1.x with the one in the config folder.
• If no changes were made to this file simply overwrite the original.
• If changes were made, copy the following and place them in the correct group inside the json file:

Tokenizer:

"ancestor_tokenizer" : {
	"type" : "PathHierarchy",
	"delimiter" : ">"
}

Analyzer:

"taxonomy":{
	"type":"custom",
	"tokenizer":"ancestor_tokenizer",
	"filter":[
		"lowercase",
		"trim",
		"taxonomy_singles_pattern"
	]
}

Filter:

"taxonomy_singles_pattern":{
	 "type":"pattern_capture",
	"preserve_original":true,
	"patterns":[
		"\\s>\\s([^>]+)$"
	 ]
}

• When you have ROLE_EMAIL assigned to a user in internal-user.properties.txt, replace it with ROLE_SHARE, ROLE_SHARE_APPROVE, ROLE_SHARE_UPLOAD.

Some new fields have been added while existing fields have been changed. Update the existing asset index.

Important note before starting the Server after upgrading from Elvis Server 5.3.7 or lower

The analysis.json file has been removed from the default Config/elasticsearch folder. After the upgrade, the analysis.json file will remain in the Config folder but it will block start-up because it is missing the trimAndLowerCase analyzer.

After upgrading from Elvis Server 5.3.7 or lower, do one of the following before starting the Server:

• Remove the file from your Elvis config directory if you did not make any customizations to this file. This will prevent future problems as well.
• If you already have analyzer customizations in place (or when the Server does not start after the upgrade), please contact WoodWing Support to help you reconfigure the analyzers.

Multi-tiered storage

When upgrading from Elvis 5.10 or lower you may run into issues with multi-tiered storage due to a defect in how the order storage-engines are read.

Note: This only applies to storage-engine-config setups where two or more patterns would apply to the same set of files; the files may appear missing.

The 'Recover misplaced asset files' tool can be used to recover assets that are stored in the wrong file store. If an asset is missing the tool will search known file stores for the misplaced asset. When none are found the tool will show a warning in the log for further investigation.

Updating the icons for the metadata flags

Elvis 5.11 introduced new versions of the metadata flag icons.

Some examples of these icons are:

File name	Old version	New version
approve
bullet_ball_glass_red
copyright
delete2
label
label_broken
star_yellow
woodwing

To make sure that any custom icons are not overwritten, the Elvis installer does not install these new icons. To make use of these new icons, they need to be installed manually.

Step 1. Download the set of new icons and extract them.

Step 2. Place the files in the following location and overwrite the existing files:

<Elvis Server folder>/Library/Elvis Server/Config/plugins/active/internal/elvis_client/flags

Increment indices to apply the new default number of shards

The number of shards for an index by default matches the configured searchNodeCount. This has been changed to improve performance and stability.

The new default is not applied to any existing index until its revision is incremented. It is advised to increment the index revision of all indices after you have upgraded to Elvis 5.14 or later from any older Elvis 5 version. For details see the cluster.searchNodeCount setting in the cluster-config.properties.txt file in the folder named 'clean-example-config-5.14' (located in your Elvis Server/config folder).

When upgrading to Elvis 5.20 or higher directly from Elvis 4, or when you have upgraded from any Elvis 4 version in the past, run the Relations Upgrade tool to rebuild Collections and fix broken asset relations.

Note: Should the process fail, please contact WoodWing Support (customers should do this via their WoodWing Partner).