Greetings!

We're currently running NodeBB v3.10.3 and I have been trying to upgrade to latest (v4.6.1 at the time of writing). I have not tried upgrading directly on the instance yet since I wanted to try locally first with the same or close-to-same conditions (node versions npm versions Ubuntu versions, latest DB backup, public files etc).

However, the upgrade script has been failing again and again and I even upgraded node to v22.21.0 and npm to v10.9.4.

The error always seem to be something along the lines of "Dependencies outdated or not yet installed. Error Code: DEP_WRONG_VERSION".

Then I followed the following instructions and have been able to "seemingly" upgrade NodeBB. However, I am not entirely sure if the process I followed is correct or if I have missed any steps that would run all the upgrade scripts like db migration/plugin upgrades etc.

Steps I followed are a follows:

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you!