Hi, I was writing an upgradeable contract using openzeppelin's upgrades contract. Is it possible to change the storage of the upgrade implementation ? I was thinking of adding new variables to the end. Will it work? For example if my contract is something like this contract TestContract is Initi…

yes, you should be fine if you only add new variables after the last variable of the old version, as described here https://docs.openzeppelin.com/upgrades-plugins/1.x/proxies#storage-collisions-between-implementation-versions and here https://docs.openzeppelin.com/upgrades-plugins/1.x/writing-upgrad…

[image] Arun_Sunny: I was thinking of adding new variables to the end. Will it work? Yes, this is the way to go.

How to change storage safely of upgradeable contract

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minh_trng June 22, 2022, 7:31pm 3

some patterns you might also want to look into are the gap variable and diamond storage: The better way to define the variable __gap in the proxy contract

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How to change storage safely of upgradeable contract

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