FYI You are rather probably going to want to upgrade when the security releases come out later this week. (And you have applied the short-term fix to the 0-day already haven't you?)
On Friday 6 November 2015, James Nord <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/11/2015 18:49, jks3 wrote: > > Hi, > > While not a newbie to Jenkins, I am certainly a newbie to Jenkins admin > and I've been handed the task of upgrading our Jenkins server from its > current version of *1.564* to the latest, which, as of today, is *1.636*. > > Now, when someone else here attempted this some time ago, they had issues > (the details of which I don't currently have) but, suffice it to say that > they felt the need to roll back to our current version. I believe they > tried to jump to a version multiple versions up (possibly to 1.600) but not > the latest at the time. So, I am looking for advise as to the best approach > to this. > > I don't want to have to upgrade a version at a time (84 upgrades) so, > besides perhaps using the 'major enhancement' marker in the *Changelog* > <https://jenkins-ci.org/changelog>, what would be the recommended > intermediate versions to which I should upgrade? > > *Any other words of advice?* > > > 1) backup your JENKINS_HOME (accidents happen) > 2) don't go to 1.636 unless you have to - use an LTS > <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/LTS+Release+Line>if you want > stability which it appears you do as you have not upgraded in a long time! > 3) make sure any JNLP slaves have their slave.jar updated > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jenkinsci-users%[email protected]');> > . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/563D27A9.5000502%40teilo.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/563D27A9.5000502%40teilo.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my phone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CA%2BnPnMw0FYF3nJxdPnZ0raQ2UFr0ELeZVs_-7whV_DruosFScg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
