For a successful upgrade to version 5, it is mandatory that the installed Klaros-Test­management version is 4.12.0 (released July 29th, 2019) or higher. If this is not the case, the application will refuse to start, and you will see a corresponding entry in the console and log. In this case, please download the latest available 4.xx version first, install it and update your installation by logging in with administrator credentials. After this, the upgrade to version 5 is possible.

In version 4 it was mandatory that an administrator triggered a database update after a new version has been installed. In version 5 this is no longer required, the system is now fully usable directly after an update has been made.

Version 5 rebuilds existing databases from previous installations on the first start. Depending on the size of the existing data and the processing power of your database installation this process can take from some minutes to up to an hour.

Please reserve a reasonable time frame for this and show some patience during startup. Each step of the rebuild process is logged on the console and/or logfile.

In contrast to previous versions it is no longer required to install a Java Runtime Environment prior to installing Klaros-Test­management. Klaros-Test­management is now packaged with a Java 11 runtime that is automatically used.

As of version 5, the database version used is automatically detected and should no longer be specified in the <user.home>/.klaros/hibernate.properties file. Please remove the hibernate.dialect=... line from this file before you perform the upgrade.

In version 5 we have discontinued support for Oracle databases. If you have an existing Oracle installation you like to migrate to another DBMS please contact us at support@verit.de for further instructions.