Moodle upgrade path - 4.1 to 4.5

An evaluation of requirements and timelines for upgrading Moodle 4.1 to 4.3 or 4.5.

https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.3

Moodle 4.1 -> 4.3

Min PHP 7.4 -> 8

PHP extension sodium is required

(seems to be built in to 8

https://serverfault.com/questions/1118165/how-to-install-php-sodium-on-ubuntu-22-04

)

PHP setting max_input_vars must be >= 5000.

PHP variants: Only 64-bit versions of PHP are supported.

MySQL 8.0 (increased since Moodle 4.1)

Moodle 4.4 release date is 22 April 2024

so probably should upgrade to that - OR -

Next LTS is 4.5. 7 October 2024.

https://moodledev.io/general/releases

Moodle 4.1 -> 4.4

Min PHP 8.1

Ubuntu 22.04

PHP 8.1.2

Mysql 8.0.28

Ubuntu 24.04 has:

PHP 8.3

Mysql 8.0.36 (via this link to get the url, and https://web.archive.org/web/20240502044149/http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz )

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 - Probably will need to do it as a two step process -
https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-upgrade-to-24-04-noble-numbat-a-step-by-step-howto-guide

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-to-22-04-lts-jammy-jellyfish

 

20.04 is supported till Apr 2025. So in Oct 2024, we should be able to upgrade the OS and Moodle together.