I have a Helm hosted site, and there is nothing I can do effectively to get from 4.7 to 4.8. I have tried everything from deleting all the 4.7 files to rolling back and whenever there is in error for about 15 minutes every user that visits my site gets that page showing it is upgrading. I get the notification the files are 4.7, the db is 4.8 and it is doing horrible caching where if you use any browser but IE you see when I update a page immediately, but in IE, nothing changes for about 10 minutes. I have even deleted all the files and restarted the browser.

The documentation is so convoluted there is little way to make heads or tails of it. The path to upgrade information is really really really bad. If you contribute to DNN it may make sense, but you have effectively screwed the users that are not that familiar.

I was actually developing a site on DNN 4.3 for a Hollywood movie studio until 4.8 came out, it was really painful to upgrade to 4.7, and to 4.8, it was impossible. Way to go gang, I can't even effectively roll back to 4.7 for them or my own site so I have to run a fresh installation on Helm with 4.3 since Helm does not have any package newer than that.