Any plans to Upgrade Odoo 16?

Hi all,

just to give some context from a recent discussion we had with Innovyou. The current Odoo 16 community app should be considered a one-off release and there is no plan for an automatic upgrade path on that base. This is mainly due to the well-known complexity of Odoo upgrades when addons and customizations are involved, where a blind in-place update would very likely break existing installations.

Innovyou confirmed their interest in continuing the project on NS8 and the focus is now on a new app based on Odoo 18, with the intention of keeping it maintained for the whole lifecycle of that major version. The goal is to make it again available through NethForge.

As for existing Odoo 16 installations, the discussion is around a possible manual and documented upgrade procedure, if it turns out to be technically feasible and reliable. In any case, automatic upgrades from 16 will be explicitly blocked to avoid unexpected disruptions.

Although Odoo 16 is end-of-life and its use is discouraged :warning:, it is still technically possible to install it on a specific cluster node from the command line. The node ID (for example, 2) can be found in the Nodes page. To install Odoo 16 on cluster node NODE_ID, you can run:

add-module ghcr.io/innovyou/odoo:1.0.2 NODE_ID

Innovyou is aware of the open questions in this thread. They should be able to provide more details and timelines as soon as their development plans are clearer.

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