Sourcegraph on Docker Compose upgrade notes

This page lists the changes that are relevant for upgrading Sourcegraph on Docker Compose.

For upgrade procedures or general info about sourcegraph versioning see the links below:

Attention: These notes may contain relevant information about the infrastructure update such as resource requirement changes or versions of dependencies (Docker, Docker Compose, externalized databases).

If the notes indicate a patch release exists, target the highest one.

6.3.2692

Grafana's port 3370 is no longer open by default for unauthenticated access for Docker Compose and Pure Docker deployments. Admins can still access Grafana by logging in to their Sourcegraph instance, navigating to the Site Admin page, then clicking Monitoring from the left navigation menu. If customers require port 3370 to be open, see [PR 1204] for insight on how to add this port to their docker-compose.override.yaml file.

6.2.2553

Known issues

Customers running Sourcegraph versions prior to v6.2.2553 and using the Sourcegraph provided PostgreSQL containers may encounter PostgreSQL collation version mismatch warnings after upgrading to more recent Sourcegraph versions due to an underlying glibc version update.

When logging into the database via psql or similar tools you may see the following warning:

Warning: database "sg" has a collation version mismatch DETAIL: The database was created using collation version 2.40, but the operating system provides version 2.41.

Mismatched collation versions can lead to database index corruption if left unchecked.

Affected Services

pgsql container
codeintel-db container
codeinsights-db container

Only self-hosted customers using the Sourcegraph provided PostgreSQL container images are affected.

Self-hosted customers using external databases, such as AWS RDS, GCP CloudSQL, or another self-managed solution are NOT affected.

See our PostgreSQL Collation Version Mismatch Resolution notes for more details.

6.0.0

Sourcegraph 6.0.0 no longer supports PostgreSQL 12, admins must upgrade to PostgreSQL 16. See our postgres 12 end of life notice! As well as supporting documentation and advisements on how to upgrade.

5.10.1164

This release resolves an issue in the v5.10.0 release which prevented multiversion upgrades from working. You may now target v5.10.1164 using migrator's upgrade command.

Note: For versions prior to 6.12.0, you could also use autoupgrade by setting the environment variable SRC_AUTOUPGRADE_IGNORE_DRIFT=true on the frontend container. Autoupgrade has been removed in Sourcegraph 6.12.0 and later.

5.10.0

Warning: Admins are advised to upgrade directly to v5.10.1164 circumventing this release.

Warning: This release updates the database container images from Postgres 12 to Postgres 16, and begins using Wolfi based images. Customers are advised to take a database backup before upgrading! See our postgres 12 end of life notice!

Warning: automatic and migrator upgrade command will not work for this release, please upgrade directly to v5.10.1164, or to a 5.9 version and conduct a standard upgrade using migrator's default up command!

Notes:

The container image for pgsql and codeintel-db have been renamed from postgres-12-alpine and codeintel-db respectively to postgresql-16. The codeinsights-db container has been renamed to postgresql-16-codeinsights.
Admins using external dbs who have not yet upgraded from postgres 12 to postgres 16, can expect to see database drift after upgrading to 5.10.0. The new expected schema definition for Sourcegraph is based on postgres 16. The schema drift is the result of automatic changes made to the schema by pg_upgrade utils, and will not cause issues in the application.
- Admins should not run migrators suggested drift fixes, and should instead upgrade their database from postgres 12 to postgres 16.
For versions prior to 6.12.0, the Autoupgrade upgrade method would detect drift and exit before conducting the upgrade unless the env var SRC_AUTOUPGRADE_IGNORE_DRIFT=true was set in the server container. Note: Autoupgrade has been removed in Sourcegraph 6.12.0 and later.
Postgres 12 image containers cannot be started with data volumes which have been upgraded by postgres 16.

5.1.5

Notes:

Upgrades from versions v5.0.3, v5.0.4, v5.0.5, and v5.0.6 to v5.1.5 are affected by an ordering error in the frontend databases migration tree.

5.1.4

Notes:

Migrator images were built without the v5.1.x tag in this version, as such multiversion upgrades using this image version will fail to upgrade to versions in v5.1.x.

5.1.3

Notes:

Migrator images were built without the v5.1.x tag in this version, as such multiversion upgrades using this image version will fail to upgrade to versions in v5.1.x.

5.1.2

Notes:

Migrator images were built without the v5.1.x tag in this version, as such multiversion upgrades using this image version will fail to upgrade to versions in v5.1.x.

5.1.1

Notes:

Migrator images were built without the v5.1.x tag in this version, as such multiversion upgrades using this image version will fail to upgrade to versions in v5.1.x.

5.1.0

Notes:

See note under v5.1.5 release on issues with standard and multiversion upgrades to v5.1.5.

5.0.6

Notes:

See note under v5.1.5 release on issues with standard and multiversion upgrades to v5.1.5.

5.0.5

Notes:

See note under v5.1.5 release on issues with standard and multiversion upgrades to v5.1.5.

5.0.4

Notes:

See note under v5.1.5 release on issues with standard and multiversion upgrades to v5.1.5.

4.5.0

Notes:

This release introduces a background job that will convert all LSIF data into SCIP. This migration is irreversible and a rollback from this version may result in loss of precise code intelligence data. Please see the migration notes for more details.

4.4.1

Notes:

Users attempting a multi-version upgrade to v4.4.0 may be affected by a bug in which an outdated schema migration is included in the upgrade process. This issue is fixed in patch v4.4.2
The error will be encountered while running upgrade, and contains the following text: "frontend": failed to apply migration 1648115472.
- To resolve this issue run migrator with the args 'add-log', '-db=frontend', '-version=1648115472'.
- If migrator was stopped while running upgrade the next run of upgrade will encounter drift, this drift should be disregarded by providing migrator with the --skip-drift-check flag.

4.2.1

Notes:

This upgrade adds the node-exporter deployment, which collects crucial machine-level metrics that help Sourcegraph scale your deployment.

4.0

Notes:

Target the tag v4.0.1 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
jaeger (deployed with the jaeger-all-in-one image) has been removed in favor of an OpenTelemetry Collector DaemonSet + Deployment configuration. See Configure a tracing backend
Exporting traces to an external observability backend is now available. Read the documentation to configure.
The bundled Jaeger instance is now disabled by default. It can be enabled if you do not wish to utilise your own external tracing backend.

3.43

Notes:

Target the tag v3.43.2 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.42

Notes:

Target the tag v3.42.2 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.41

Notes:

Target the tag v3.41.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
caddy is upgraded to version 2.5.1 and contains a breaking change from version 2.5.0. Incoming X-Forwarded-* headers will no longer be trusted automatically. In order to preserve existing product functionality, the Caddyfile was updated to trust all incoming X-Forwarded-* headers. #828
The Postgres DBs frontend and codeintel-db are now given 1 hour to begin accepting connections before Kubernetes restarts the containers. #4136

3.40

Notes:

Target the tag v3.40.2 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
cadvisor now defaults to run in privileged mode. This allows cadvisor to collect out of memory events happening to containers which can be used to discover underprovisoned resources. #804

3.39

Notes:

Target the tag v3.39.1 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
v3.39.1

Notes:

We made a number of changes to our built-in postgres databases (the pgsql, codeintel-db, and codeinsights-db container)
- CAUTION: Added the ability to customize postgres server configuration by mounting external configuration files. If you have customized the config in any way, you should copy your changes to the added postgresql.conf files sourcegraph/deploy-sourcegraph-docker#792.
- Increased the minimal memory requirement of pgsql and codeintel-db from 2GB to 4GB. -codeinsights-db container no longer uses TimescaleDB and is now based on the standard Postgres image sourcegraph/deploy-sourcegraph-docker#780. Metrics scraping is also enabled.

3.38

Notes:

Target the tag v3.38.1 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
v3.38.1

Notes:

Minimum version of 1.29 for docker compose is required for this update
This release adds the requirement that the environment variables SRC_GIT_SERVERS, SEARCHER_URL, SYMBOLS_URL, and INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS are set for the worker process.

3.37

Notes:

Target the tag v3.37.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
This release adds a new container that runs database migrations (migrator) independently of the frontend container. Confirm the environment variables on this new container match your database settings.
If performing a multiversion upgrade from an instance prior to this version see our upgrading early versions documentation

3.36

Notes:

Target the tag v3.36.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.35

Notes:

Target the tag v3.35.1 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
The query-runner service has been decommissioned in the 3.35 release and will be removed during the upgrade. To delete the query-runner service, specify --remove-orphans to your docker-compose command.
There is a known issue with the Code Insights out-of-band settings migration not reaching 100% complete when encountering deleted users or organizations.

3.34

Notes:

Target the tag v3.34.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.33

Notes:

Target the tag v3.33.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.32

Notes:

Target the tag v3.32.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.31

WARNING: This upgrade must originate from v3.30.3.

Notes:

Target the tag v3.31.2 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
The built-in main Postgres (pgsql) and codeintel (codeintel-db) databases have switched to an alpine-based Docker image. Upon upgrading, Sourcegraph will need to re-index the entire database.

3.30

WARNING: If you have already upgraded to 3.30.0, 3.30.1, or 3.30.2 please see the rebuild corrupt postgres indexes guide for recovery steps.

Notes:

Target the tag v3.30.3 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.29

Notes:

Target the tag v3.29.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
This upgrade adds a new worker service that runs a number of background jobs that were previously run in the frontend service. See notes on deploying workers for additional details. Good initial values for CPU and memory resources allocated to this new service should match the frontend service.

3.28

Notes:

Target the tag v3.28.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
The memory requirements for redis-cache and redis-store have been increased by 1GB. See https://github.com/sourcegraph/deploy-sourcegraph-docker/pull/373 for more context.

3.27

WARNING: Sourcegraph 3.27 now requires Postgres 12+.

Notes:

Target the tag v3.27.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
If you are using an external database, upgrade your database to Postgres 12 or above prior to upgrading Sourcegraph. No action is required if you are using the supplied supplied database images.
If performing a multiversion upgrade from an instance prior to this version see our upgrading early versions documentation

3.26

Notes:

Target the tag v3.26.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.25

Notes:

Target the tag v3.25.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
Go 1.15 introduced changes to SSL/TLS connection validation which requires certificates to include a SAN. This field was not included in older certificates and clients relied on the CN field. You might see an error like x509: certificate relies on legacy Common Name field. We recommend that customers using Sourcegraph with an external database and and connecting to it using SSL/TLS check whether the certificate is up to date.
- AWS RDS customers please reference AWS' documentation on updating the SSL/TLS certificate for steps to rotate your certificate.

3.24

Notes:

Target the tag v3.24.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.23

Notes:

Target the tag v3.23.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.

3.22

Notes:

Target the tag v3.22.0 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
This upgrade removes the code intel bundle manager. This service has been deprecated and all references to it have been removed.
This upgrade also adds a MinIO container that doesn't require any custom configuration. You can find more detailed documentation here.

3.21

Notes:

Target the tag v3.21.1 when fetching upstream from deploy-sourcegraph-docker.
This release introduces a second database instance, codeintel-db. If you have configured Sourcegraph with an external database, then update the CODEINTEL_PG* environment variables to point to a new external database as described in the external database documentation. Again, these must not point to the same database or the Sourcegraph instance will refuse to start.