diff --git a/src/infra_version.js b/src/infra_version.js
index 3c6613a23..9bc72a4cb 100644
--- a/src/infra_version.js
+++ b/src/infra_version.js
@@ -5,14 +5,12 @@
 // Do not require anything here!
 
 exports = module.exports = {
-    // a major version makes all apps restore from backup. #451 must be fixed before we do this.
-    // a minor version makes all apps re-configure themselves
+    // a version change recreates all containers with latest docker config
     'version': '48.12.0',
 
     'baseImages': [ 'cloudron/base:1.0.0@sha256:147a648a068a2e746644746bbfb42eb7a50d682437cead3c67c933c546357617' ],
 
-    // Note that if any of the databases include an upgrade, bump the infra version above
-    // This is because we upgrade using dumps instead of mysql_upgrade, pg_upgrade etc
+    // a major version bump in the db containers will trigger the restore logic that uses the db dumps
     // docker inspect --format='{{index .RepoDigests 0}}' $IMAGE to get the sha256
     'images': {
         'mysql': { repo: 'cloudron/mysql', tag: 'cloudron/mysql:2.0.0@sha256:1c177c3fa079695aea13cec6daf52b772f400022131f31e8da237f55d683d9f4' },
diff --git a/src/platform.js b/src/platform.js
index 2a9c5c53d..bb1c7dc0f 100644
--- a/src/platform.js
+++ b/src/platform.js
@@ -360,21 +360,16 @@ function startAddons(existingInfra, callback) {
 }
 
 function startApps(existingInfra, callback) {
-    // Infra version change strategy:
-    // * no existing version - restore apps
-    // * major versions - restore apps
-    // * minor versions - reconfigure apps
-
-    if (existingInfra.version === infra.version) {
-        debug('startApp: apps are already uptodate');
-        callback();
-    } else if (existingInfra.version === 'none' || !semver.valid(existingInfra.version) || semver.major(existingInfra.version) !== semver.major(infra.version)) {
+    if (existingInfra.version === 'none') {
         debug('startApps: restoring installed apps');
         apps.restoreInstalledApps(callback);
-    } else {
+    } else if (existingInfra.version !== infra.version) {
         debug('startApps: reconfiguring installed apps');
         reverseProxy.removeAppConfigs(); // should we change the cert location, nginx will not start
         apps.configureInstalledApps(callback);
+    } else {
+        debug('startApps: apps are already uptodate');
+        callback();
     }
 }