After about a year of hell getting a couple products released, along with the regular grind, I had a day to catch up on house-keeping. This included updating our FreePBX server. That went like this:
Man, it has been a long time since I did this. That's strange. There are no updates to apply. That doesn't seem right. I wonder if I have to do a major update... Well, look at that. I missed the entire version 16 release. They are well onto 17 now.
In looking into this a bit, it seems like it is going to be a fun move. I get it. Backup. Set up FreePBX on a new server. Restore. But we are running FreePBX on a Vultr instance, which sort of makes me choose between keeping the IP address and blowing away my existing server, or creating a server with a new IP address and dealing with the consequences of restoring a backup to a server with a different IP address that my SIP provider knows nothing about.
Honestly, I'm not sure what the right way to go on this.
Looking at some of the comments about version 17 shortly after its release, at least it looks like I will have avoided its early release growing pains.