The Upgrade Path Is a Product Decision

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Atelier CMS makes one promise that shapes almost every other decision in it:

Any version upgrades to the latest. Fully automated. No hiccups.

Not “supported upgrade path.” Not “see UPGRADING.md.” The operator pulls a new image, the appliance converges itself, and their site keeps working — whether they last upgraded last week or six releases ago.

That sentence reads like an ops feature. It isn’t. It’s a veto, and it sits on the part of the process where the fun happens: choosing what goes in.

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The Upgrade Path Is a Product Decision