Well, that went fairly well. The only glitch I ran into was that I was upgrading from Movable Type 2.21 to 2.6. The installation instructions indicated that since I was using MySQL I was supposed to run mt-upgrade25.cgi and then mt-upgrade26.cgi to update the database schema to the latest level. Unfortunately, the mt-upgrade25.cgi script had a version check that checks for level 2.5 (rather than 2.5 or later). I just commented that part out and all was well.
One feature that I'm glad to see in this release is the ability to close comments on old articles. I have an old posting about Bushisms that seems to attract several visitors a day. It's now so old that I'm not really interested in getting any more comments on it.
Update: It helps if you remember to upgrade the template for the individual archive pages. Otherwise the handy new logic to turn off comments will be ignored.
Posted by Aubrey at February 16, 2003 04:33 PM