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Hello,
absolute beginner with MantisBT ...
If I get this correctly, a good approach is to make a copy of a running MantisBT instance
(e.g. I made a new virtual server, get all files over, import the db)
and, after assuring all works fine and as expected,
perform an upgrade.

What do you recommend:
A ...

Thank you very much, atrol, for your reply and links.
I am planning to do some upgrade testing, starting from a new installation.
Will study the documentation first, though.

Thanks a lot and vielen Dank, Igor

I guess, at this point, it could be a good idea to plan a migration.
First install the latest version, try it out, test it ... and then migrate data from the older version to this new installation.
To get things up to date and to start putting hands on from the base ...

Hello atrol,
thank you very much for your effort and reply.
I am afraid, from what I see following your questions, that this is a very old installation.

Server:
SLES12SP5
5.5.62 SUSE MySQL package
mantisbt-1.2.16.tar.gz
php5-mysql-5.5.14-109.82.1.x86_64
apache2-mod_php5-5.5.14-109.82.1.x86_64 ...

Hello,
I am new to Mantis as for trying to fix things, using it for a while - but I did not set it up, though.

TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'label')
this is an error the browser shows most of the time after e.g. inserting a new issue, updating an issue (inserting a note ...