You may need to make changes to your database tables (in your Chart of Accounts) and some IDs (like fiscal year), apart from some AUTO_INCREMENT presets.
The patch code for the file differences between the versions 2.3.16 and v2.3.24+ in sql/en_US-new.sql are:
diff --git "a/sql/en_US-new.sql" "b/sql/en_US-new.sql"
--- a/sql/en_US-new.sql
+++ b/sql/en_US-new.sql
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net
--
-- Host: localhost
--- Generation Time: May 11, 2010 at 11:37 PM
+-- Generation Time: Sep 26, 2014 at 11:37 AM
-- Server version: 5.0.51
-- PHP Version: 5.2.6-1+lenny2
@@ -653,7 +653,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `0_debtor_trans` (
`payment_terms` int(11) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`type`,`trans_no`),
KEY `debtor_no` (`debtor_no`,`branch_code`),
- KEY `tran_date` (`tran_date`)
+ KEY `tran_date` (`tran_date`),
+ KEY `order_` (`order_`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;
--
@@ -755,18 +756,14 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `0_fiscal_year` (
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `begin` (`begin`),
UNIQUE KEY `end` (`end`)
-) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;
+) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;
--
-- Dumping data for table `0_fiscal_year`
--
-INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(1, '2008-01-01', '2008-12-31', 0);
-INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(2, '2009-01-01', '2009-12-31', 0);
-INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(3, '2010-01-01', '2010-12-31', 0);
-INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(4, '2011-01-01', '2011-12-31', 0);
-INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(5, '2012-01-01', '2012-12-31', 0);
-INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(6, '2013-01-01', '2013-12-31', 0);
+INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(1, '2013-01-01', '2013-12-31', 0);
+INSERT INTO `0_fiscal_year` VALUES(2, '2014-01-01', '2014-12-31', 0);
--
-- Table structure for table `0_gl_trans`
@@ -955,7 +952,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `0_item_units` (
-- Dumping data for table `0_item_units`
--
-INSERT INTO `0_item_units` VALUES('ea.', 'Each', 0, 0);
+INSERT INTO `0_item_units` VALUES('each', 'Each', 0, 0);
+INSERT INTO `0_item_units` VALUES('hr', 'Hours', 0, 0);
-- --------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1559,7 +1557,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `0_stock_category` (
INSERT INTO `0_stock_category` VALUES(1, 'Components', 1, 'each', 'B', '4010', '5010', '1510', '5040', '1530', 0, 0, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `0_stock_category` VALUES(2, 'Charges', 1, 'each', 'D', '4010', '5010', '1510', '5040', '1530', 0, 0, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `0_stock_category` VALUES(3, 'Systems', 1, 'each', 'M', '4010', '5010', '1510', '5040', '1530', 0, 0, 0, 0);
-INSERT INTO `0_stock_category` VALUES(4, 'Services', 1, 'hrs', 'D', '4010', '5010', '1510', '5040', '1530', 0, 0, 0, 0);
+INSERT INTO `0_stock_category` VALUES(4, 'Services', 1, 'hr', 'D', '4010', '5010', '1510', '5040', '1530', 0, 0, 0, 0);
-- --------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1790,7 +1788,7 @@ INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('coy_logo', 'setup.company', 'varchar', 100, ''
INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('domicile', 'setup.company', 'varchar', 55, '');
INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('curr_default', 'setup.company', 'char', 3, 'USD');
INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('use_dimension', 'setup.company', 'tinyint', 1, '1');
-INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('f_year', 'setup.company', 'int', 11, '6');
+INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('f_year', 'setup.company', 'int', 11, '2');
INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('no_item_list', 'setup.company', 'tinyint', 1, '0');
INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('no_customer_list', 'setup.company', 'tinyint', 1, '0');
INSERT INTO `0_sys_prefs` VALUES('no_supplier_list', 'setup.company', 'tinyint', 1, '0');
@@ -2058,10 +2056,10 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `0_users` (
`show_codes` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`show_hints` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`last_visit_date` datetime default NULL,
- `query_size` tinyint(1) default '10',
+ `query_size` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '10',
`graphic_links` tinyint(1) default '1',
`pos` smallint(6) default '1',
- `print_profile` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '1',
+ `print_profile` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
`rep_popup` tinyint(1) default '1',
`sticky_doc_date` tinyint(1) default '0',
`startup_tab` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
