Updating lores-node

The lores-node software is managed by abra. It’s wise to keep it up to date as this project is currently changing rapidly.

We installed lores-node using abra in the lores-node section of the “Initial setup” guide.

Abra update

These commands are run on your dev computer.

abra app upgrade APP_DOMAIN

Replace APP_DOMAIN with the domain you used for lores-node. Most apps have an app-name in front, but with lores-node we generally use the root domain of the server. That is probably YOUR_HOSTNAME.local (with YOUR_HOSTNAME replaced with the name you used).

If you aren’t sure what you called it, you can check with abra app list.

Checking if it worked

Open that same APP_DOMAIN url in your browser, to see the lores-node web interface. In the left hand sidebar, you should see a version number down the bottom. This will let you know if you have deployed the version you intended to.

A screenshot of the sidebar of the lores-node interface, showing the debug section, with the bottom item being the text: v0.23.0 — The lores-node sidebar showing the verison number.

How do I know if it’s the latest version?

You can see the latest version released, and it’s changelog (list of things that have changed), on the github release page for lores-node.