Installing an Update using the Patch

Updated by Cheryl Wallace

The patch zip is a simple alternative to using the installer to update an existing ToolHound 6 installation as using the installer requires you know the SQL connection string and site URL details and can overwrite certain details in the appsettings.json configuration file.

Before getting started, download toolhound6-6.2026.0904.2.zip from our download link. The file name now carries the version. Earlier releases were distributed as TH6 Patch.Net8.zip. If you are working from an older instruction sheet, that is the same file under its previous name.

ToolHound updates are cumulative. When skipping multiple update releases however, confirm with Support to ensure a smooth update.

On Premise installations updating from versions prior to 6.2024.520 can require a change to the appsettings.json depending on your SQL Server configuration. This is due to a breaking change from Microsoft. If this is not addressed, an error message will be displayed and users will not be able to log in.

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This release requires the .NET 10 Web Hosting Bundle on every On Premise installation, whatever version you are updating from. That includes a site updated in the last few months: version 6.2026.617.0 and the 0723 hotfix were both built on .NET 8. Installing the update without the .NET 10 Web Hosting Bundle will cause the site to fail to load.

Either install the .NET 10 Web Hosting Bundle (dotnet-hosting-10.0.9-win.exe) before applying the update, or use the installer, which includes the file and installs it for you. IIS must be restarted after the Web Hosting Bundle is updated.

Earlier runtime requirements, for reference: the update to version 6.2024.314.0 required a move from .NET 6 to the .NET 8 Web Hosting Bundle. If you are updating from a version before 6.2024.314.0 you are moving two runtime generations at once. You need only the .NET 10 bundle. .NET 8 is not an intermediate step.

The patch does not include the Web Hosting Bundle. Install it separately before extracting the patch, or use the installer instead.

To use TH6 Patch,

  1. Stop the ToolHound 6 site in IIS.
  2. Extract the files from the zip and copy them into your installation path (overwriting the existing files).
  3. Restart the site in IIS.
The database update runs by itself. Since version 6.2026.0904.2 the application updates any database that is behind shortly after the site restarts, including databases nobody has logged into. There is no separate script to run. This can take a few minutes on a large database. Sign-ins are refused briefly while a database is being updated, and signing in to a database that is behind requests its update immediately.
  1. Update mobile devices from the appropriate app store if applicable for this release.

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