Keeping your FusionReactor updated
Note: This blog post is from 2018. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.If you are using FusionReactor (the monitor for CF/Lucee/Tomcat and other Java servers), are you on the latest release, or at least a relatively recent one? You really should be, as new features are added all the time. (I especially love the new "archived metrics" that had been added in 7.2.) I've written in the past about various FusionReactor updates, and would hope to do so in the future. (Here's my category of posts on FR.)
In this post, I want to encourage you to update as well as show you how to do it, whether you have implemented FR using the automated installer, the manual install process (drop in the jar), or are running it within Commandbox. (I also address a mistake you could make when using the automated installer that would leave you NOT completely updated because you missed a step.) But notice that most of the bullet points are about OTHER than actually DOING the update. If that's your focus, jump to that section.
Update: Just a few months after I offered this post, version 8.1 was released (in Jan 2019), and it offers now a notification in the top banner when there is an update, which is nice (but obviates only a couple of points I make below. The rest should apply well into future FR releases.)
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