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Lasso Professional Server 8.6
Release Notes

Version: 8.6.0
Release: Apr 4, 2011
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- Lasso Professional 8.6.0
- Welcome
- Serial Numbers
- Package Contents
- Documentation
- Installation Notes

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Lasso Professional 8.6.0
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Lasso Professional 8.6 is a paid upgrade to Lasso Professional 8.5. The purpose of this upgrade is to officially support more modern versions of the OS X and CentOS operating systems.



Installing the Upgrade
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Please see the Installation Notes below for full details about installing Lasso Professional 8.6.

- It is recommended that you perform a backup of your Lasso Professional 8 folder before performing this update.

- The installer will perform either an update or a full installation of Lasso Professional 8.6.0.

- On Mac OS X the installer will update your installation of Lasso Professional 8.5. No uninstall is required. Your settings and databases will not be affected by this procedure.

- The Mac OS X installer includes support for the built-in Apache 2.2 by default.

- The installer on each platform will stop and restart your Web server automatically.

Throughout the remainder of this document the product will be referred to as Lasso Professional 8.6.


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Welcome
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Welcome to Lasso Professional Server 8.6.

This document contains important information about installing and using Lasso Professional 8.6. You should read this document completely before installing Lasso Professional 8.6.

Additional installation and configuration steps are documented in the Lasso 8.6 Setup Guide PDF file which is installed in the Lasso Professional 8/Documentation folder.


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Serial Numbers
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Older Lasso Professional serial numbers will not work with Lasso Professional 8.6. 


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Ordering the Lasso Professional 8.6 Upgrade
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To order the upgrade from all previous versions of Lasso Professional Server please visit http://www.lassosoft.com/myaccount/
- Log into your LassoSoft Store account
- On the MyAccount page, click on the "Serials" tab
- Click on the "update" link for the license you wish to upgrade and choose the upgrade option to add it to your cart.

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Package Contents
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The installation package includes the following components.

- Read Me - This folder contains this document, the license agreement and the change notes from all previous version of Lasso Professional 8.6. The Getting Started guide includes instructions for installing and getting started with Lasso quickly. Additionally, you will find the Setup Guide which contains detailed information about installing and configuring Lasso Professional 8.6, as well as what you need to do to upgrade from previous versions of Lasso Professional.

- Lasso Settings Migrator - This folder contains the files necessary to export your previous Lasso Professional configuration for use with Lasso Professional 8.6. Please consult the Setup Guide for more information.

- Uninstaller (Mac OS X only) - The uninstaller is included as "Uninstall Lasso Pro 8.6.0.mpkg". This separate installer can be used to remove Lasso Professional 8.6 leaving only databases and other files that have been created or modified since installation. See the Lasso 8.6 Setup Guide for additional details and for uninstall procedures for other platforms.


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Documentation
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The Lasso 8.6 Setup Guide includes installation and configuration instructions for Mac OS X. The Lasso 8.6 Setup Guide is provided as a PDF file in the Lasso Professional 8/Documentation folder.

The Lasso 8.6 Setup Guide also includes a documentation road map which describes all of the documentation resources for Lasso Professional 8.6. Please consult our site for a full list of PDF-based manuals and online resources.
See the LassoSoft website for details <http://www.lassosoft.com/Lasso_Products>.

Late Breaking Updates - Lasso Professional 8.6 is a middleware product that relies on the behavior of third-party software (Web servers, data sources) for smooth operation. For late breaking updates to the documentation please consult LassoSoft Support Central.

<http://www.lassosoft.com/Errata>



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Installation Notes
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Mac OS X
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- If you have modified your lasso8.conf file, you will want to make sure that you have backed up this file before you install or uninstall Lasso Pro 8.6. Otherwise, the changes you made to the lasso8.conf file will be removed.

- For greater compatibility with existing solutions, an Apache alias is created for the /Lasso folder so that LassoApps such as LassoStudio.LassoApp and RPC.LassoApp will continue to work after upgrading from previous versions of Lasso Professional. This alias will effectively make any existing /Lasso folder unreachable. If you need to access the old /Lasso folder, either rename it, or remove the alias. The alias is stored in the /etc/apache2/users/lasso86.conf file.

- Lasso Professional 8.6 is installed in a specific location on your startup drive in the Applications folder. It is imperative that you do not move the Lasso Professional 8.6 folder after it has been installed. Doing so will cause your Lasso Professional 8.6 installation to stop functioning.

- If you are upgrading from Lasso Professional 7 or earlier, your settings will NOT be automatically copied into the new installation. Please consult the Lasso 8.6 Setup Guide for information about how to migrate your settings to the new installation.


Linux
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- If you have Lasso Professional 8.5 installed on CentOS 5.5
	- Uninstall Lasso Professional 8.5.
	- Install Lasso Professional 8.6.

- To download Lasso Professional 8.6 using yum:
	- The lines between "--" pairs are the pieces that you should type/paste into a command line.
	- As ROOT, type/paste the text between "--" pairs into the command line.
		-- 
		cat>  /etc/yum.repos.d/LassoSoft.repo<<  EOF
		[lassosoft]
		name=LassoSoft
		baseurl=http://centosyum.lassosoft.com/
		enabled=1
		gpgcheck=0
		EOF
		-- 
	- If you are on a 32 bit CentOS, run: yum install Lasso-Professional-Apache2
	- If you are on a 64 bit CentOS, run: yum install Lasso-Professional-Apache2.x86_64 

- To install Lasso Professional 8.6 from rpms, run the following commands:
	- For 32 bit
		- rpm -ivh Lasso-Professional-8.6-5.i386.rpm
		- rpm -ivh Lasso-Professional-Apache2-8.6-5.i386.rpm
	- For 64 bit		
		- rpm -ivh Lasso-Professional-8.6-5.x86_64.rpm
		- rpm -ivh Lasso-Professional-Apache2-8.6-5.x86_64.rpm


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Support
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If you require further assistance, please contact us at support@lassosoft.com or visit our support page at http://www.lassosoft.com/support .




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