The update ran for 5 min, which may be relevant for admins who set a time out for running php scripts.

Wow, five minutes! In my testing instance, a copy of my forum for testing my theme with only nearly 100 postings, the upgrade ran within around a second. That the running time will be longer with more than a half million entries sounds reasonable, but five minutes!

@Joe: What's your experience with running time of the script?

Do we need mentions, perhaps? 🤔

Unfortunately, I did not time the upgrade process when I did either a single or double upgrade. My biggest takeaway was that it didn't crash due to a web or SQL timeout, so to me that was fine.

No harm to mention that it could take an extended time for bigger forums, but I'm not sure even 5 minutes is a huge issue at the moment.

Joe