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> On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Since you spent a long time on a single version, you should probably upgrade 
> to a long term support version (currently 1.642.1) rather than to a weekly 
> version.  LTS versions have additional testing and tend to be supported 
> longer (though none of them are supported for 5 years).
> 
> Mark Waite
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 8:50 AM Nia Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thank you this has been most helpful and I will be sure to come back with 
>> any questions if I encounter any issues! 
>> 
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>>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 8:35 AM, Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Basically, yes, there are obviously many risks doing a fast-forward of 
>>> almost 5 years, maybe even more with a project as active as Jenkins :).
>>> 
>>> BUT, depending on your environment (how many jobs, nodes, exotic configs, 
>>> unmaintained/custom plugins...), this may not be a so big issue in the end. 
>>> The upgrade should still be pretty automatic if you're a bit lucky. 
>>> No specific patch or something should be required off the top of my head.
>>> 
>>> What you want to do is to replicate your whole current install the new 
>>> target server, and just try upgrading. You'll see how it goes. Crawl the 
>>> archive here about how to move a server onto another machine about that 
>>> (basically, rsync should almost always be sufficient from my experience).
>>> 
>>> When you have done that, and have found specific issues, don't hesitate to 
>>> come back here to ask for help/advice.
>>> 
>>> HTH
>>> 
>>> -- Cheers
>>> 
>>> 2016-01-21 17:40 GMT+01:00 Nia Hunter <[email protected]>:
>>>> Good morning, I have two basic questions. I am not sure if this is the 
>>>> correct group for these questions, if not please let me know where to pose 
>>>> these questions.
>>>> 
>>>> We are using Jenkins as a stand-alone application on our UNIX server.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Other than Java 7 and above, are there any System Requirements or 
>>>> Environmental constraints associated with upgrading from a much older 
>>>> version of Jenkins to the latest? For example, we are using Version 1.423 
>>>> and would like to go to at least Version 1.638, but preferably the latest. 
>>>> Is there a patch required when doing an upgrade from such an old version?
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Are there any general risks associated with upgrading from an older 
>>>> version to a newer version?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
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