Sugar Community Edition Release Notes Version 5.0d

Requirements for 5.0

Requirements for 5.0 are as follows:

•	Increase the value of the memory_limit parameter in the php.ini file as follows:

•	MySQL Server: 40M or higher

•	MS SQL Server: 40M or higher

•	To install Sugar 5.0 successfully, ensure that the MB String module is installed in your PHP libraries.

•	If you are using MySQL, you must install version 4.1.2 or higher to use with Sugar 5.0.

•	For Microsoft Exchange, Sugar supports only versions 2000 and higher.

•	Before upgrading to 5.0, navigate to the php.ini file on your system and change the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize settings to more than 20MB. Restart Apache and then begin the upgrade process.

•	The process of upgrading to 5.0 can take up to an hour. If you are using the IIS Web server, you need to ensure that the CGI application does not time out. To do this, on IIS, set the CGI script timeout to more than 300 seconds, which is the default value.

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In order to better support multi-byte character storage with Microsoft SQL Server, You can configure Sugar to use FreeTDS driver. For more information, see Installation Prerequisites and Guidelines in the Installation Guide. The supporting files are in a zip file, sugarcrm-MB-mssql.zip at http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/?group_id=6.