Upgrading Confluence 5.5 Recommendations

[mfarrell]

We need to upgrade Confluence 5.5 to the latest stable version of Confluence. We are looking for suggestions on the best way to do this. Should we just:

1. Stop Confluence
2. Take a backup of the database
3. Download the Confluence 6 executable
4. Run the upgrade
5. Restart Confluence

What about plugins? What other gotcha's should we be watching out for?

Thanks,

Mike Farrell

[Thomas Buchhorn]

As Boris said, always do a test upgrade on a staging server.

You can check if compatible upgrades to your plugins are available for the new confluence version in the add-on manager.

Check if you need to buy a licence. Sometimes plugins change from a free version to a non-free version.

Check your system environment: Do you need java upgrades, database upgrades, etc? Check the End of support announcements / upgrade guides of each confluence version you skip.

The configuration of the connector parameters might have changed. Check if the parameters are still valid.

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

Test it in staging. You can even do it on your computer. Doing this live in prod without testing is a huge risk.