Adding note on how to upgrade from Gerrit v3.9.0 Change-Id: Iac967fe1dadced6fe4643077561764926aa3d7b6
diff --git a/pages/site/releases/3.9.md b/pages/site/releases/3.9.md index b393fdf..6c519d4 100644 --- a/pages/site/releases/3.9.md +++ b/pages/site/releases/3.9.md
@@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ ## Important notes +### Upgrade from Gerrit v3.9.0 (defective release) + +The release of Gerrit v3.9.0 has been impacted by the bad merge of +[Change 394445](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/394445) +due to the ["implicit merge on moved changes issue"](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40009784) +that has pulled 64 unwanted commits from the master branch. +As a consequence, the version has been declared defective and withdrawn. + +The upgrade from 3.9.0 to the following 3.9.\* patch-releases needs to +follow the instructions of the _"Offline upgrade"_ because it contains an +incompatible Lucene Engine that won't be able to read the legacy index data. + ### Schema and index changes This release doesn't contain schema changes.