# Connection timeout after upgrading to Central v1.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** odk-central\ **Created:** [May 25, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/connection-timeout-after-upgrading-to-central-v1-2/33690 "2021-05-25T15:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Matthew\_White](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/matthew_white/32/1654_2.png) [@Matthew\_White](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Matthew_White)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/connection-timeout-after-upgrading-to-central-v1-2/33690/5 "2021-05-26T18:17:50Z")
I think the main issue is that the properties `port` and `ssl` were allowed in v1.1, but are now ignored. I actually don't see anywhere that we document `port` and `ssl`. Did you find those in the Knex.js documentation, or did you just notice that they worked? To specify the port, I think you can include that in the `host` property. We don't have a good way right now to specify named parameters, including `ssl=true`. If you must specify `ssl=true`, you could try shoving it into the database name, since that comes last in the connection string: `"database": "mydb?ssl=true"`. However, I'm not sure I recommend that, because the `database` property is intended for the database name, and this approach might not be supported in a future version. I can't tell whether there's an issue with your password. Central v1.2 does not currently encode the password for the connection string, so there can be an issue if your password contains a symbol with special meaning. In that case, you should either change your password to something without the symbol, or percent-encode the symbol. For more background on all this, check out the documentation on Postgres connection URIs: [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING) I'll also file a GitHub issue so that we can think more about encoding the password and specifying named parameters. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.getodk.org/t/connection-timeout-after-upgrading-to-central-v1-2/33690)._