Future migration path

[skttl]

In v11 the migrations from 8 to 9 was removed, as "the only migration path expected to work is to update one major at a time".

How is this going to work going forward, if I want to be in LTS versions only, and upgrade from 10 to 13? Do I have to go through 11 and 12 first?

I think there should be migrations in place for going straight from one LTS to another at leat.

[ronaldbarendse]

It probably all depends on how many migrations there will be and how complex they are: you can currently still upgrade from 9.4 to the latest version (11.0.0 as of this writing).

The major reason for removing/obsoleting the migrations mentioned in that announcement was because there were a lot of migrations required to go from v7 to v8 (related to content variations) and there wasn't a supported way to migrate v7 directly to v10 anyway. It also massively simplified the migration plan (compare 9.4.3 against 11.0.0), so it was mainly done to clean the codebase up and make the migration plan more maintainable (i.e. reduce bugs in the migration path).