Upgrading Movable Type

From time to time important upgrades will be made to the Movable Type software and you'll want to upgrade in order to take advantage of any new features and any bug fixes those upgrades offer.

During the writing of this book, Movable Type was upgraded one time, and it was very simple to upgrade from the older version we had running to the new version. Some upgrades are more complex than others, depending upon what you've modified in your version of Movable Type and how you're using the software on an existing weblog.

Typically, the upgrade will simply be a matter of following these general steps:

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Download the upgrade files from the Movable Type Web site.
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Possibly make one or two modifications to specific files, especially ...

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