u/NeonexFree

I was with EE (Openreach) for my broadband service, but recently discovered that Virgin Media had upgraded to full fibre (XGS-PON) in my area and that I could sign up with GiffGaff which uses the VirginMedia/Nexfibre network infrastructure. The advantage of GiffGaff is that they install an ONT like Openreach, rather than the dreaded VirginMedia hub. I had my service installed last week and once the installer had set up the ONT I connected my existing TP-Link ER605 router and Deco mesh WiFi system and everything worked just as it did. I had to change the WAN settings on the router to DHCP and set the VLAN to 911, but that was it.

I signed up for the rolling monthly contract at £35 a month. The 24 month contract is £32. I like that I am not tied into a contract.

The beauty of GiffGaff is that it is a symmetric product. I have the 900Mbps service and get the same upload speed as download. The latency is amazingly low.

I was running Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring (version 34.0.4) on my Synology NAS and managed to get to the stage where administration settings showed only 1 warning about second factor providers. Everything worked perfectly, including EuroOffice. I'm using the linuxserver docker containers.

Then I decided, foolishly, to upgrade to version 35 - and administration settings showed a plethora of errors and warnings. It was a complete mess.

I managed to restore my file backups and made sure my docker-compose file used the versions of nextcloud and mariadb that had worked with version 34.04. before I ran docker compose up -d. I'm now back to where I was.

My question really is how can I make sure this doesn't happen the next time I upgrade? Everyone says don't upgrade to a new major version until there is an incremental update. I did that, I waited until 34.0.1 but found myself in a mess. I check this reddit and the Nextcloud Community, hoping to see a post about upgrade problemss and recommendations, but there are never useful posts like this.

What should I wait for before upgrading? I have only a basic competence with databases so if maradb screws up I do not have the skills to sort things out - beyond the basic occ commands.

GiffGaff Broadband. Wow!

When to upgrade Nextcloud?