[Tungsten]

Just to pitch in my $0.02 worth...

I did the upgrade on my forums today, moving from 2.2.4 to 2.2.5 with the help of Araxis Merge. My VB installation is typical of most, I guess, with a dozen or so hacks and quite a few template modifications in place. It took me about 2 hours to do with several breaks along the way to do other things.

I would not want to attempt this without a program like Araxis merge. Hands down, it's the best thing going for this sort of upgrade!

Only one or two of my hacks didn't survive the upgrade and those were simply because the existing hack code did not have opening and closing comment lines to give me a hint that they were hacks and not outdated VBulletin code.

The few hacks that didn't survive were very easy to fix afterward by simply reapplying the bits of code that got overwritten. Firefly deserves a huge round of applause for making it easy for us to keep track of what hacks we have installed through the forums here at VB.org!

Anyway, just thought I'd pass my story along. It wasn't nearly as painful a process as I suspected it might be and I won't hesitate a moment to tackle the upgrade to future versions the same way.