How do I upgrade from Bitbucket 2.13.6 to 4.8.1?

Question

Environment: AWS EC2 Linux (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)

Current git version 2.13.6

Upgrade to 4.8.1

Reason is security

Why not 5.0? Potential POF and Bitbucket service is used a lot.

Ana Retamal · Accepted Answer

Hi Lucas, welcome to the Community! Then, you can find all steps to upgrade Stash to the latest Bitbucket version at Bitbucket Server upgrade guide. If you made any changes to /conf/server.xml (for instance to secure your server with SSL): * In the directory, make a new directory called shared. * Then, copy your modified server.xml file into /shared/. Ensure the copied file is readable by the user account that runs Bitbucket Server. For more info, please read Install Bitbucket Server from an archive file. Don’t forget to have a look into the Supported Platform Documentation before you follow to the upgrading process to avoid any incompatibility. We also recommend you to try to upgrade your system in a staging environment first to avoid outages. Make sure you have a backup from your Stash and the database. Keep in mind that upgrading from Stash to Bitbucket Server will disable all user-installed add-ons, whether they are 3rd-party add-ons from Atlassian Marketplace, or your own custom add-ons. User-installed add-ons will need to be checked, upgraded and enabled again once you've finished the upgrade process. You can check the marketplace listing for 3rd-party add-ons to determine if there is a release that is compatible with the newest Bitbucket Server. If they haven't been updated, they won't work. Same goes for custom add-ons. See the documentation on how to update your add-on for details. Hope that helps! Ana