Best upgrade path from 3.4.5 to 5.4.2

[Jonas Petersson]

Hi!

We are currently on Confluence 3.4.5 and want to upgrade to 5.4.2. As stated in the upgrade guide we should skip the incremental step of upgrading to major version 4 in between and go directly to version 5.x.x. According to this we are supposed to upgrade manually because we are on a version pre-3.5.x but to what version should we update manually to? Be reading various threads like this it seems like we should manually update from 3.4.5 -> 3.5.17 first.

Have I understood this correctly?

3.4.5 Manually -> 3.5.17 -> 5.0.3 -> 5.4.2

Any other suggestions?

Thank you very much!

[Jonas Petersson]

Ok great. Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not sure what you mean by "manually", but yes, it's very strongly recommended that you go 3.5 before you attempt the jump to a later release. A lot changes between 3.4 and 3.5, and it's a nightmare to go from 3.4 to 4.0, let alone higher!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Oh, I see. The older upgrade method was renamed as "upgrading manually".

Yes, you need to do it this way to get on to Confluence 3.5

[Jonas Petersson]

Hi, thank you for your reply.

It is stated like this in the manual:

• Are upgrading from a version earlier than Confluence 3.5 you will need to upgrade manually.

So there is a "manually upgrade" process to use for versions earlier than 3.4.x > 3.5 if I understand it correctly.