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I just went through the usual upgrade process, and it appeared to work - the main site was upgraded and operated as expected with the new version. However, as soon as I even look at the admin area, I am greeted by this fatal error: I rolled it back and tried again and got the same result. So this looks like a problem in FeedbackForm. I have 0.9.12 installed, so I fetched 0.9.14 and tried upgrading to that, but it gives me: Looking at the XML I can see that it specifies cmsms 1.0-svn as a minimum version, so I'm not going to be able to upgrade it. How can I work around this?

My feedback form died as well on this upgrade.  It doesn't show up at all.  Whole business has shut down because of it.

Older FeedbackForm versions will not work with 1.0 (cause they are not 1.0-ready). You must delete your version and install new XML version.

If I do that will my feedback form pages survive? Or will they get deleted along with the module?

They should be fine.  The system will perform an upgrade of the module when it sees the newer one.

A database backup (feedbackform tables) could be very helpful for security reasons ...

I've seen reports of module upgrades being slow - so far the FeedbackForm upgrade has taken over 15 mins.

While I'm looking at it, why are the nusoap and modulemanager plugins not installed as part of the upgrade process? Do I need to install them before upgrading other modules? Why would I need nuSOAP in PHP 5.1?

Also, what's the point of the 'overwrite' checkbox? Don't upgrades automatically deal with replacing earlier versions?

Synchro wrote: Do I need to install them before upgrading other modules?

Think would be better cause current ModuleManager lists only v1.0-ready modules.

Why would I need nuSOAP in PHP 5.1?

I'm not the dev and have not checked my thinks but perhaps module does not differents between PHP 4.x and 5.x ...

Also, what's the point of the 'overwrite' checkbox? Don't upgrades automatically deal with replacing earlier versions?

If I'm right it's for downgrades.

OK, installing the module manager fixed things. After installing it, I could still not do an upgrade to the installed feedbackform module - I had to delete it first (not just uninstall it) as it complained that the uninstalled (but still present) module was installed.

My Feedback form is busted and doesn't function.  Upgrading to 1 then back down to .13 when my feedback form broke also seems to have nuked my previous customized feedback form.

Not sure what to do now

Reload your database backup ...

What DB backup?

Upgrading to 1.01 also killed my Contact_Form which I'm using as a bandaid right now, so I fear this software immensely now.

The release notice explicitly said to make backups, and that there could be problems with some modules.

Can someone clarify whether my current forms will remain even after upgrading to xml feedback and cms 1.0.1
If not is there an easy way to copy them from mysql to the new version?

the database structure hasn't changed so the tables should still be there with no difficulties

I do recommend you do a database backup though.