The mastodon documentation contains great information on how to upgrade your mastodon instance between one update and another, but if you want the quick and dirty for a basic setup, here is the process.
- Shortly you should be able to access your instance
Finally start all the mastodon services. You will need to exit from the mastodon service account
sudo systemctl restart mastodon-sidekiq.service
sudo systemctl restart mastodon-web.service
sudo systemctl restart mastodon-streaming.service
Upgrade the environment
bundle install
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:migrate
rm -rf node_modules && yarn install
yarn build:production
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
Checkout the new version and make sure that we are using the correct local ruby version is installed
git fetch
git checkout v4.2.0
rbenv install $(cat .ruby-version) --verbose
switch to the mastodon user account
su - mastodon -s /bin/bash
cd ~/live
Connect to your server via ssh
systemctl stop mastodon-*
