How to update the CipherMail Community Edition Virtual Appliance to the latest version?

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Hello everyone,

I’m running the CipherMail Community Edition Virtual Appliance and would like to update it to the latest release. What is the recommended upgrade path?

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CipherMail Gateway version 6 is a major redesign. Databases from earlier versions cannot be imported into version 6. You can export all certificates and PGP keys from your current gateway to a file and import that file into the new gateway.

If you have a paid support contract and need help upgrading to version 6, please contact our support team.

If you want to upgrade an existing version 6 appliance to a newer release, the steps depend on your edition:

  • Community edition: download the new RPM packages and install them on your existing appliance.
  • Pro edition: update automatically with dnf using our yum repository.
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Hi,

thank you for the clarification — I appreciate the detailed information.

I’m currently running CipherMail Gateway version 6.22 (Community Edition) and would like to upgrade to the latest release, 6.25. Since I’m already on version 6, I assume this is a minor update and not a major version migration.

Could you please confirm the recommended upgrade path for upgrading from 6.22 to 6.25 on the Community Edition?
As mentioned, I understand that for v6.x updates, the CE uses RPM packages — so I’d like to know:

  • Where to download the latest RPMs

  • Whether there are any pre-update steps (e.g., backup, service stop)

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Updating the VM for the enterprise edition:

From the command line:

sudo dnf update

Updating the VM for the community edition:

  1. Check changelog (CHANGELOG.md · main · CipherMail B.V. / ciphermail-community-gateway · GitLab) for any update notes

  2. Download the latest RPMs (5) from Releases · CipherMail B.V. / ciphermail-community-gateway · GitLab

  3. Copy the RPMs to the VM using scp or the Cockpit file browser (Cockpit — CipherMail Documentation)

  4. Open the command line on the VM (with ssh, or use the Cockpit terminal [Cockpit — CipherMail Documentation])

  5. Then from the command line, run:

    sudo dnf install *.rpm

  6. Restart the gateway

    sudo systemctl restart ciphermail-backend
sudo systemctl restart ciphermail-portal-backend

  7. Check backend startup logs:

    sudo journalctl -u ciphermail-backend -f
sudo journalctl -u ciphermail-portal-backend -f