Open edX Cypress Release#
Warning
This release is unsupported.
The Open edX Platform Release Notes and the Open edX Platform Release Notes are the authoratative sources of information on all Open edX releases. It is strongly recommended to operate off the latest Open edX release at all points in time, as only the most recent release is community-supported.
See the Open edX Release Schedule for information on release dates and end-of-life support.
This section describes the Open edX Cypress release. Note that edX no longer supports the Cypress release.
What’s Included in Cypress#
The Open edX Cypress release contains several new features for learners, course teams, and developers. See the Open edX Release Notes for more details.
Note
There are several new features in the Cypress release that are available, but not enabled by default in new installations. For details, see the following topics.
Badging - Support was dropped in Palm and so the documentation is no longer available on the latest release.
What is the Cypress Git Tag?#
The Git tag for the Cypress release is named-release/cypress. You use this
tag to identify the version of Open edX code that is the Cypress release.
The following Open edX Git repositories have the Git tag
named-release/cypress.
edx-platform
configuration
cs_comments_service
notifier
edx-certificates
xqueue
edx-documentation
edx-ora2
XBlock
Upgrading from Birch to Cypress#
You can upgrade an Open edX instance that is running the Birch release to the
Cypress release, by using the migrate.sh script in the configuration
repository, available here.
Note
The upgrade scripts provided are verified only for upgrading instances running the Birch release. If you are running any other version of the Open edX Platform, the upgrade scripts might not work.
Caution
Before upgrading your Open edX instance, back up all data and configuration files. Then verify that you can restore your Open edX instance from the backup files.
On the computer or virtual machine that is running the Birch release of Open edX, run the upgrade script for your type of installation:
For devstack, run
./migrate.sh -c devstack.For fullstack, run
./migrate.sh -c fullstack.You can also run
./migrate.sh -hto see which other options the script accepts.
The script creates a temporary directory in which it upgrades Open edX, then cleans up extra files and directories when it finishes running.
After upgrading Open edX to the Cypress release, start the LMS and Studio and verify that course content and data was migrated correctly.
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