topic Re: Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2 in Alfresco Forum

Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2

lalithad — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:10:21 GMT

I am part of a team wanting to upgrade from alfresco enterprise 3.3 to alfresco enterprise 5.2. The upgrade path for 3.3 to 5.2 says that we need to first upgrade to 4.2 and then to 5.1 before going to 5.2. Is the step from 4.2 to 5.1 required as somewhere else I read that you can go directly from 4

Re: Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2

cesarista — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:56:47 GMT

Yes, the recommended path in the documentation is 3.4.x < 4.2.x < 5.1.x < 5.2.x. The 5.1.x step may be ommited when starting from 4.1.x

Alfresco Content Services upgrade paths | Alfresco Documentation

Regards.

--C.

Re: Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2

lalithad — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:13:28 GMT

Thanks for that Cesar. So I need to download 4.2 and 5.1 versions of alfresco and go from 3.3 to 4.2 and then 4.2 to 5.2 ( even though now 4.2 is > 4.1)?

Re: Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2

cesarista — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:58:34 GMT

Yes, that is.

Regards.

--C.

Re: Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2

lalithad — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:21:59 GMT

Have you ever done a successful migration from an older than 4.2 version? Any idea why the extra step from 5.1 is required? It is just going to add a level of complexity to our migration here.

Re: Upgrade path from alfresco 3.3 to 5.2

cesarista — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:03:02 GMT

Yes I did.

Each step introduces different changes in the database schema and it applies several patches. The complexity may depend on your starting version. I would say it is not an extra step, just the recommended step.

Regards.

--C.