You definitely should test the upgrade first. You can do it either on your local PC using something like WampServer, or you can copy your current site to a new location on your current server, and then test the update there. Make sure that you also copy the database to something new, and update the links in your test installation. The key is that you don't touch/change your existing installation/database!

Regarding the modules:

There are new versions for these modules, or will be soon:

- Sistem admin 1.02 (that's part of XOOPS)
- Mastop go 1
- News 1.56
- Smartsection 2.13 ---> Publisher (it will import the data from SmartSections)
- Xcgallery 2.03
- Xoopstube 1.01 (it was done by McDonald, not by me, I only updated it ).
- Polls 1
- Links 1.12 (I guess, MyLinks or WF-Links should be OK)
- Wf downloads 3.1
- Liaise 1.26 --> xForms
- Backpack 0.93 ---> Backup
- Protector 3.13 (part of XOOPS installation)


These modules don't have official updates, so it would be better to look for other modules:

- Mastop publish 1.1
- Spotlight 1.3 (never made it work)
- Blocks admin 0.34
- Xt- temas 1

You might also need to update your theme.

Ok Mamba, thank you for the informations!

Xoopstube is wonderful, McDonald and you are to be congratulated.

May you point me towards a tutorial about upgrading xoops 2.0.18.2 to 2.5.7? I used xoops a long time ago and I'm not good at coding.

I intend to transfer my website to a new (and hopefully more stable) host and use my old host as a mirror, closed, in order to avoid being offline if errors occur in my new host.

I'm researching about this wampserver, to have an offline copy of my site would be wonderful.

Thank you again,

Nivea.