LxRoot Updates

# About

We frequently release LxRoot updates. Updates on the LxRoot platform are not forced however, we strongly recommend that you keep your LxRoot installation up to date with the latest Core and Appcd version.

You will be notified by email when a Core or Appcd update is available.

There are two types on updates made available on the LxRoot panel:

# Core updates

A Core update is a platform wide update and includes both API and UI updates.

Once a Core update becomes available, the update needs to be manually triggered directly from within your control panel and will be applied platform wide.

A Core update will be accompanied with release notes detailing what is included in the latest update. You can find the LxRoot release notes here

To run a Core update:

1. Open Settings in the left side bar
2. Click Platform
3. Navigate to Software updates
4. Select Update now to run the update

This will trigger the orchestration layer to update and the control panel to refresh. This will take a few seconds. In the background the orchestration layer will update the services on all of your servers. As each container restarts there will be a short amount of downtime on each services as it restarts.

Any change in disk usage will be minimal as the previous container gets deleted as part of each LxRoot update.

# Appcd updates

An Appcd update includes provisioning, performance and security updates for PHP containers and website hosting.

An Appcd update can be manually triggered directly from within your control panel. An Appcd update needs to be run on every server in your LxRoot cluster.

An Appcd update will be accompanied with release notes detailing what is included in the latest update. You can find the LxRoot release notes here

To run an Appcd update:

1. Open Servers in the left side bar
2. Manage the server you would like to update
3. Scroll to Roles
4. Select the Application tab
5. On the Appcd row click Check for updates and follow the on screen instructions
6. Repeat the above steps on each server on your cluster running the Application role