# Installing update 5.2.3

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/installing-update-5-2-3/35250>\
**Category:** Mautic 5 Install/Upgrade Support\
**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/installing-update-5-2-3/35250 "2025-03-12T00:32:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ddease2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ddease2/32/13484_2.png) [@ddease2](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ddease2)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/installing-update-5-2-3/35250/1 "2025-03-12T00:32:10Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 5.2.2  
My PHP version is: 8.2  
My Database type and version is: MariaDB

**Your problem**  
My problem is: asking about upgrade best practice

These errors are showing in the log:

Steps I have tried to fix the problem:

What is the recommended way to update Mautic 5.2.2 to 5.2.3. I assume its NOT through the GUI on the front end?

VM backed up and ready for the next adventure…

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**Author:** ![buggersee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/buggersee/32/13477_2.png) [@buggersee](https://forum.mautic.org/u/buggersee)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/installing-update-5-2-3/35250/2 "2025-03-17T12:51:29Z")

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I did the update via composer but ran into some issues.  
Here you can read how to update via composer in the official docs:

> **[How to update Mautic — Mautic Documentation 0.1 documentation](https://docs.mautic.org/en/5.x/getting_started/how_to_update_mautic.html#updating-mautic-composer-based-installs)**

The issues were resolved by running some of the commands in this useful thread:

> [@4.4.10 → 5.0.1 fails because Symfony Path is not fount in ParameterLoader.php](https://forum.mautic.org/t/4-4-10-5-0-1-fails-because-symfony-path-is-not-fount-in-parameterloader-php/30475/9):
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> My error when Upgrade: `composer update Do not run Composer as root/super user! See [How do I install untrusted packages safely? Is it safe to run Composer as superuser or root? - Composer](https://getcomposer.org/root) for details Continue as root/super user [yes]? y Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages. Problem 1 - Root composer.json requires mautic/core-lib 4.3.1 → satisfiable by mautic/core-lib[4.3.1]. …

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**Author:** ![ddease2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ddease2/32/13484_2.png) [@ddease2](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ddease2)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/installing-update-5-2-3/35250/3 "2025-05-04T02:03:52Z")

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trying to update from 5.2.3 to 5.2.5. Not working at all. After spending two hours trying to work around “doctrine schema & is\_published” errors, I’m about to give up. Is it worth it to upgrade to 5.2.5, with 6.0 out? Should I just try and upgrade to that, or is it better to just reinstall?

While I am very appreciative of the Mautic developers and community, I am not a developer. So spending hours trying to upgrade is making me question using the platform. It seems like there are so many moving parts and places for the system to get hung up, that any update puts the entire install in jeopardy. Of course I back up the entire server before I attempt updates. But I fail multiple times with every update.

Am I alone on this one, or is this common across the “non-dev” community? Any suggestions, aside from the “see the upgrade documentation” (which has been the source of my upgrade efforts).

Any help would be appreciated.