# Elasticsearch upgrade requires Seach Guard upgrade as well?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525 "2019-01-24T04:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suryadip\_Nag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Suryadip\_Nag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suryadip_Nag)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525/1 "2019-01-24T04:39:49Z")

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We are using ES 5.5.1 and also using search-guard 5.5.1 and search-guard-ssl 5.5.1

We are upgrading ES to 6.5.4 so is it mandatory to upgrade the search-guard as well? Or we can continue with the existing search guard?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525/2 "2019-01-24T05:01:51Z")

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You will need to ask the Searchguard devs that.

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**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525/3 "2019-01-24T05:24:30Z")

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On a general level you need to upgrade every plugin when upgrading Elasticsearch. The reason being that every ES plugin needs to be built against specific ES version only and it must name this version in its descriptor file, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/6.5/plugin-authors.html#\_plugin\_descriptor\_file](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/6.5/plugin-authors.html#_plugin_descriptor_file) (check the `elasticsearch.version`). SearchGuard is no exception.

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**Author:** ![CamTheMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@CamTheMan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CamTheMan)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525/4 "2019-01-24T05:44:05Z")

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See their release page here: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/releases](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/releases) To find the version that matches your ES version.

Looks like they support upto ES 6.4.2 ONLY

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**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525/5 "2019-01-24T07:58:23Z")

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I would probably start here: [https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/search-guard-versions](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/search-guard-versions)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-upgrade-requires-seach-guard-upgrade-as-well/165525/6 "2019-02-21T07:58:38Z")

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