I have just upgraded howforge.com to Drupal 4.7.0 beta 5. It works just well with a little patch. Actually, I follow my previous steps to upgrade Drupal 4.7.0 beta 3 to beta 4 with slightly modification.

1. Make a copy of all files
2. Extract Drupal 4.7.0 beta 4
3. Find differences between the original beta 4 and the copy
4. Extract Drupal 4.7.0 beta 5
5. Copy .htaccess, sites, additional modules and themes from the copy to beta 5
6. Find differences between beta 4 and beta 5
7. Look for conflict
8. Apply manual customized to beta 5
9. Make a patch of the copy and beta 5
10. Apply the patch to the running code
11. Run update.php in Internet Explorer

Caution: You may wait forever if you run update.php in Firefox. Anyway, the actual upgrade seems to run very fast so you may ignore that wait. To prevent this problem, I recommend to run update.php in Internet Explorer instead.

In this version, I have to apply my patches to make it work with Post2Blog perfectly like before. They are the same ones applied to beta 4.

1. blogapi.module
2. ping.module
3. taxonomy.module

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