Updating Kavita

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Remember to use the new Docker Central Repo! The old repo kizaing/kavita is no longer supported!

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If you are updating from a really old version, you need to upgrade every 2 versions at a time. Doing otherwise you risk having to restart with a fresh database!

If you are on 0.7.6+ you can update directly to 0.7.14, otherwise, you need to update incrementally to prevent data loss (v0.5.6 > v0.7.1.4 > v0.7.3.1 > v0.7.6 > v0.7.14)

As long as Kavita is in a ‘stack’ then updating is simple:

Step 1

Go to your stacks on the left sidenav of portainer

stacks

Step 2

Go into your Kavita stack in the main listing of available stacks.

Step 3

Go to the editor tab

editor

Step 4

update

Go straight to the ‘Update the stack’ Button and click it. When the dialog box comes up asking “Are you sure?”, check the box “Re-pull image and redeploy”

repull

Clean up

Don’t forget to remove any orphaned images in the ‘Images’ tab so they don’t keep taking up space.

Navigate to the location your compose file is at and run:

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

This will pull the most recent image and bring the container back up.

docker compose pull

Then the same docker run command you used to bring up the service the first time.

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