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What you’ll learn
  • how to upgrade Webiny from 5.4.0 to 5.5.0
Before continuing, make sure to take the necessary precautions, listed in the Overview section.
Make sure to check out the 5.5.0 changelog to get familiar with all the changes introduced in this release.

Upgrade Webiny Packages
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The first step is to upgrade all @webiny/* packages, which can be done by running the following command in the root of your project:

# Execute in your project root.
yarn up "@webiny/*@5.5.0"

Once the upgrade has finished, running the yarn webiny --version command in your terminal should return 5.5.0.

Upgrade Webiny Project
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Before running the below webiny upgrade command, please run the following from your project root:

npx https://gist.github.com/doitadrian/80c1407e3b513f8e1daaf77ae9e4703b

Running this command will apply a minor fix to the webiny upgrade command that you’re about to execute.

This release includes a couple of smaller changes on the project organization level. To make it easier, we provide a simple Webiny CLI command that will automatically make all the necessary adjustments for you.

Once you’ve run the above upgrade command, run the following:

# Execute in your project root.
yarn webiny upgrade 5.5.0

Before running the webiny upgrade command, we recommend that you commit any active code changes you might have in your working branch.

Additional Manual Upgrade Steps
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Once the webiny upgrade command has finished, a couple of manual steps remain to be completed, after which, your project should be completely updated.

You can then proceed by committing the changes to your working branch and trying to deploy the project to one of the development or pre-production environment.

1. Add apolloLinks.ts File (Located in Your Website Project Application)
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In your Website project application (apps/website), we need to add the new apolloLinks.ts external link file, that contains a couple of plugins, necessary for resolving a couple of pre-rendering related issues external link.

Copy and paste the above mentioned apolloLinks.ts file to apps/website/code/src/plugins/apolloLinks.ts, and also, make sure it’s imported in the index.ts external link, located in the same plugins folder:

apps/website/code/src/plugins/index.ts
import { plugins } from "@webiny/plugins";
import imageComponent from "@webiny/app/plugins/image";
import pageBuilder from "./pageBuilder";
import formBuilder from "./formBuilder";
import apolloLinks from "./apolloLinks";

import theme from "theme";

plugins.register([imageComponent(), pageBuilder, formBuilder, apolloLinks(), theme()]);

2. Update Page React Component (Located in Your Website Project Application)
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Open your /apps/website/code/src/components/Page/index.tsx file and replace its content with the new one external link. This change is also related to new pre-rendering related fixes.

3. Optionally, Add Necessary Environment Variables to Enable Newly Introduced Logs Forwarding
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The new webiny watch command enables you to stream logs from your application code directly to your terminal. And while all new projects will have this feature automatically enabled, there are a couple of manual steps that needs to be done for projects that are making the upgrade to version 5.5.0.

In api/pulumi/dev/index.ts external link, upon instantiating both Graphql and HeadlessCMS classes, make sure to pass the WEBINY_LOGS_FORWARD_URL: String(process.env.WEBINY_LOGS_FORWARD_URL) as an environment variable.

With that, you will also need to add the @webiny/handler-logs dependency to api-graphql external link and api-headless-cms external link packages, and register its plugins in respective index.ts external link / index.ts external link files.

This will enable logs forwarding for your main GraphQL API and HeadlessCMS GraphQL API Lambda functions.

4. Fix the buildFunction in the transform Lambda Function Handler
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We’ve received several reports of the webiny.config.ts external link not importing the correct buildFunction. Before doing any deployments, please ensure that the config file imports the correct buildFunction:

import { buildFunction } from "@webiny/api-file-manager/handlers/transform/bundle";

Upgrade Headless CMS Permissions
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After a successful deployment, open your Admin Area to execute the automated upgrade of Headless CMS permissions. It will update permissions data structure on user groups and API keys.

We recommend verifying your CMS permissions after the upgrade, to make sure they reflect exactly what is expected.