Need to downgrade your Ghost version?

Have you ever been stuck after an update and hardly wished to downgrade...
Well here is a workaround. The thing is to trick the system to allow you to "update" to an older version.

We need to edit the update.js file on the GhostCLI directly:

But first, you need to stop the service: ghost stop then;

$ sudo nano /usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/commands/update.js

and add the latest known working version for ie.

actionVersion: "4.24.1"

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);
        }

        const {force, zip, v1} = argv;
        const version = argv.version ? `${argv.version}` : null;

        const context = {
            instance,
            force,
            activeVersion: instance.version,    <<<
            version,
            zip,
            v1
        };

        if (argv.rollback) {
            if (!instance.previousVersion) {
                throw new Error('No previous version found');
            }
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You should now be able to use the ghost start command without any problem.😁
We hope we have been of some help!