Upgrading Wings

Upgrading Wings is a painless process and should take less than a minute to complete.

Move Old Settings

WARNING

As of wings@1.0.0-beta.5 we have moved the default location for the configuration to be in /etc/pterodactyl. Please take note of this when performing the upgrade!

This process only needs to be executed if upgrading from wings@1.0.0-beta.4 or before. You can skip to the download process below if you're already on at least beta.5.

# Create the new pterodactyl data directory.
mkdir -p /etc/pterodactyl

# Update the service configuration file to point to the new directory.
sed -i 's;/srv/wings;/etc/pterodactyl;g' /etc/systemd/system/wings.service

#Reload the Systemd daemon service to update the changed service file
systemctl daemon-reload

You may optionally move the configuration file over into /etc/pterodactyl at this time, or allow the daemon to move it automatically for you. I recommend moving it now, and then deleting the /srv/wings directory as it is no longer needed.

Download Updated Binary

First, download the updated wings binary into /usr/local/bin.

curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/wings https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/download/v1.0.0-beta.7/wings_linux_amd64
chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/wings

WARNING

Previously this guide recommended to place the wings binary in /etc/pterodactyl, which is against best practices. You should delete /etc/pterodactyl/wings after downloading the latest binary to /usr/local/bin.

Restart Process

Finally, restart the wings process. Your running servers will not be affected and any open connections to the instance will re-connect automatically.

systemctl restart wings