I’ve updated the blog from 2.7.1 to 2.8.3 and it will likely become 2.8.4 since it’s a security update.
The change wasn’t all bad.
Because I’m running with Debian, some of the configuration details were moved to the /etc directory. It took me several minutes to figure out what stuff had to be moved over there from the config file in the blog directory. After that, I logged in and then the software performed some kind of database update- which caused some funny characters to appear in all the posts. It was too unacceptable for me to leave alone, so I went through the posts and corrected that. Now everything is back to normal.