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Upgrading a Prior XTF Installation

If you have previously installed XTF and want to retain your existing stylesheets and configuration files, this section provides instructions for upgrading to a new release of XTF.

Upgrading usually consists of these steps:

• Shut down the servlet container.
• Make a backup of your existing XTF directory, in case something goes wrong during the upgrade.
• Download the latest XTF-Core package (xtf-core-2.x.x.zip) from SourceForge. The core package contains the Java source code and libraries for XTF, but omits stylesheets and configuration files.
• Unzip the contents of the package into your XTF directory.
• Optional: Review changes to the default stylesheets and apply them to your own. You can do this by downloading xtf-example-2.x.x.zip and diffing the stylesheets and config files against the previous version or against your current files.
• Restart the servlet container and test to ensure that XTF is operating correctly.