Hi all just no getting around to upgrading xwiki.. This is my first attempt at an xwiki upgrade.. Not a pretty outcome :-( stack below I've copied over my xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties, and hibernate.cfg.xml from my 2.7.1 xwiki instance. I verified xwiki.store.migration=1 is set is there any other hibernate things I need to uncomment? I cant see anything in the release notes that I should have done different.. INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor ROOT.xml Apr 15, 2011 3:46:33 PM org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager doLoad SEVERE: IOException while loading persisted sessions: java.io.InvalidClassException: com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 7375085244707397057, local class serialVersionUID = 8286109986904027210 java.io.InvalidClassException: com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 7375085244707397057, local class serialVersionUID = 8286109986904027210 at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:562) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1731) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.readObject(StandardSession.java:1475) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.readObjectData(StandardSession.java:977) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.doLoad(StandardManager.java:394) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.load(StandardManager.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:648) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.setManager(ContainerBase.java:446) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4597) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:701) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:585) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) Apr 15, 2011 3:46:33 PM org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager start SEVERE: Exception loading sessions from persistent storage java.io.InvalidClassException: com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 7375085244707397057, local class serialVersionUID = 8286109986904027210 at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:562) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1731) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.readObject(StandardSession.java:1475) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.readObjectData(StandardSession.java:977) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.doLoad(StandardManager.java:394) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.load(StandardManager.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:648) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.setManager(ContainerBase.java:446) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4597) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:701) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:585) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) Apr 15, 2011 3:46:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart Apr 15, 2011 3:46:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [] startup failed due to previous errors ------ thanks kevin.foote