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DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

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DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

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Forum: Upgrading DNN Platform

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DNN 9.1.1 to 9.3.2 Error after upgrade Started By Jordz Hi All, I've spend the day trying to upgrade from DNN 7.4 to DNN 8.0.4 then DNN 9.1.1. All of them upgraded success with a little issues (had to turn off some schedule tasks to make 8.0.4 to 9.1.1 work) The issue now is that I tried to upgrade from 9.1.1 to 9.3.2, now recieving these errors which I cant find out how to fix. If someone has any suggestions or if these errors look familar, any information is handy at this point :) thank you! [WebVM][ERROR] DotNetNuke.Service...	11	10076	3	11/4/2019 10:57 PM by Jordz
Upgrade Paths Started By DaveHassall Hi Two questions (Not good practice I know) Is there anywhere that gives an upgrade path I've seen and used ones I found for V7 to V9 that had the in between steps required. I'm looking to upgrade from V9.1 and, mistakenly, went for 9.9.1 It would be good if when a release is made either someone would upgraded a path list, or the latest version should state the lowest version you can go to this version in one jump is. e.g. 9.5.0 could say you need 9.3.4 and 9.9.1 could say you need ...	2	2231	2	4/22/2021 11:06 AM by DaveHassall
Upgrade from 9.3.2 to 9.6.1 issue Started By Rajesh Hi, While the upgrade process went on smooth from 9.3.2 to 9.6.1 and the site appeared to be working fine. However, after I restarted the instance I start getting the 'An unhandled error has occurred.' DNN error page and i am stuck. Fail to understand that if the site was working perfect after upgrade what setting has got disturbed on rebooting. Where should I check The log file is not helping. Thanks Rajesh	36	11894	2	3/21/2021 10:08 AM by Rajesh
Upgrade 9.8.1 Started By WhatsHerName Hello I am currently on DNN 9.7.02, I was wondering if I could upgrade directly to 9.8.1 and skip 9.8.0 Or do I need to up upgrade to DNN 9.8.0 first Thank you.	5	3088	2	1/22/2021 2:12 PM by WhatsHerName
Upgrade to 9.5.0 Build error Started By Cmis Hi, I have upgraded my local development environment to 9.5.0 and the site works fine. However when I come to build our solution I get: The type 'PortalModuleBase' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'DotNetNuke, Version=9.2.1.533. I have gone through every project and checked that the DotNetNuke.dll referenced is the 9.5.0 one in the bin folder. And when I double click the error and go through to the definition of PortalModuleBase, I ...	2	2194	1	4/3/2020 5:09 AM by Cmis
Error after upgrading to DNN 9.5 Started By Vicenç Masanas I did an upgrade from a very old system (DNN 5.x) to DNN 9.5. All seems ok except just a few things: pages, users and recycle bin. On these I get an API call error similar to this one: http://website/RunningOnF...tPageListsearchKey= {Message: 'An error has occurred.',…} Message: 'An error has occurred.' ExceptionMessage: 'The 'ObjectContent`1' type failed to serialize the response body for content type 'application/json; charset=utf-8'.' ExceptionTy...	5	3850	4	3/18/2020 4:51 PM by Vicenç Masanas
Persona Bar Dissappears After Stepped Upgrade Started By eTeacher PRO We are currently on DNN 9.1.1. we have been testing the upgrade process and can get to 9.3.2 fine. When we then try to go any further, the Persona Bar dissappears. I have read there can be an issue with Newtonsoft.json.dll. We have version 12 in the bin folder and the binding is set in web.config. But still no joy. Does anyone have any suggestions Thanks, Michael	5	2173	1	3/17/2021 1:54 PM by eTeacher PRO
Can't edit certain pages on DNN site after upgrade to 9.01.01 Started By PamR Hello, We recently upgraded one of our client sites to 09.01.01 to address a Telerik vulnerability, and then had to migrate the site from managed.com to Azure due to manage.com's outage. After the upgrade, a couple of pages on the site have been uneditable using the pencil icon in the persona bar, although the rest work fine. We're aware of the workaround of going into content > pages and clicking the pencil icon there, but even then not all of the areas on the page are editable. For examp...	3	3776	1	1/9/2021 1:21 AM by PamR
I would like to give a big thank you to DNN for not deleting the old forum! Started By scippy Today upgrading an old DNN installation I ran into this same issue discussed a lot of time ago here Very thanks to Leopuld that even after all this time it solved my problem today! Keeping old forms active is always helpful! Thanks to DNN for not deleting this forum as Microsoft is doing with Codeplex!		2485	0	2/19/2021 4:18 AM by scippy
Persona Bar issues after update Started By BorisVivienne Hey All, We recently started using DNN. We have several sites on this platform. I'm an admin for a DNN site that running now latest version, but when i did the last upgrade I think I blew up the user registration module that was being utilized. Immediately, I grabbed the backup I created of the website and placed it back in the correct directory, while deleting the upgraded website. After this, the registration bar was working but the Persona Bar had disappeared. Do you have any tips on ho...	1	1727	1	2/16/2021 1:08 PM by BorisVivienne

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