# How to create Plugin for Kibana 5.6.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-plugin-for-kibana-5-6-3/107331>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-plugin-for-kibana-5-6-3/107331 "2017-11-13T06:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![RajeshAJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RajeshAJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RajeshAJ)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-plugin-for-kibana-5-6-3/107331/1 "2017-11-13T06:07:35Z")

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I want to create a plugin for kibana version 5.6.3, due to this I follow the link "[https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-code](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-code)", the GitHub provider the source code of the latest version kibana 7.0.0 [https://github.com/elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana) .but I need the kibana version 5.6.3 to create a plugin, where I get the source code

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-plugin-for-kibana-5-6-3/107331/2 "2017-11-13T15:15:31Z")

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Hey @RajeshAJ if you're already cloned the github repo, you can run `git checkout 5.6` to switch to the 5.6 branch.

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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:** [December 11, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-plugin-for-kibana-5-6-3/107331/3 "2017-12-11T15:15:31Z")

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