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  • John 7 posts 73 karma points
    Mar 26, 2021 @ 00:48
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    Has anyone gone through an upgrade process from 4.8 to current?

    Using Umbraco And Getting Started
    Umbraco 4

    I'm looking into the options on upgrading a legacy umbraco instance to something more current (ideally 8.x) and I was wondering if anyone has faced this before and maybe have a little advice on the best path to take?

    My production web.config has the target framework as 4.0 but the azure app service running it is set to 4.8

    Mainly, with such a substantial upgrade, should I go through incremental upgrades following the version specific upgrades document?, to go from 4.8 all the way up to an 8.x version, or would it make more sense to setup a fresh 8.x install and somehow migrate content, templates, scripts, etc. into the new install? Most of the development done has been through user controls. I am building and releasing

    I would be doing the upgrade in a completely separate staging setup where I could hopefully perform adequate testing.

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  • Alex Skrypnyk 6133 posts 23952 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Mar 26, 2021 @ 19:50
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    Hi John

    There is no way to upgrade from 4 to 8.

    You can try to upgrade to 6, then to 7.

    Then migrate content from 7 to 8.

    But you can't upgrade from any version to 8. You have to rewrite the site and migrate the content and schema.

    Thanks,

    Alex

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  • John 7 posts 73 karma points
    Mar 26, 2021 @ 21:11
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    Thank you Alex. I will look at the upgrade path to 6! Take care.

    John

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