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Hello,

I've made some custom changes to Mantis in different files. The problem I have is that when I update to a new version, the custom changes get overridden. So is there a easy way to keep the custom changes and safely go to the newest version?

Most of the time there is no need to change any of the existing Mantis files for customization, as quite a lot of customization can be done by setting configuration options, writing custom functions are writing plugins.

I recommend to use a source code control system like Git if you really need to change existing Mantis source code.
It's quite easy with Git to maintain your own code in a separate branch and to refresh your code from time to time with latest changes from Mantis.

I used to have quite a few local changes which I tracked with a local git branch that I merged releases into. But after dealing with some merge conflicts during the 2.x series, I moved a lot of the changes I had into plugins, leaving just my config, extra css and some changes to strings in the translation files.