Activepieces Upgrade Broke Flows
Quick answer
After self-hosted upgrades some users see empty flow lists or failing flows. Read the breaking-changes page, back up first and roll back by restoring the dump.
Most likely fix: Check the breaking changes
How to fix it
Try these in order — the most common fix is first.
1. Check the breaking changes
- Read the breaking-changes page for every version you skipped
- Compare your compose file with the official one
Did this fix it?2. Roll back
- Restore the pre-upgrade dump with pg_restore into a fresh database
- Switch docker-compose.yml back to the previous image
- Start Activepieces
Did this fix it?3. Upgrade safely next time
- Dump the database
- Run docker compose pull and up -d
- Open a few existing flows to verify
Did this fix it?
Symptoms
Flows list empty after upgrade, flows fail, or templates break.
Why it happens
- Skipped release notes
- Changed Postgres image
- Breaking changes in a version
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- activepieces upgrade broke flows
- activepieces flows missing after upgrade
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