# Unwanted Upgrade ElasticSearch version

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unwanted-upgrade-elasticsearch-version/191841>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [July 23, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unwanted-upgrade-elasticsearch-version/191841 "2019-07-23T14:35:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unwanted-upgrade-elasticsearch-version/191841/7 "2019-07-24T10:02:19Z")

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> [@Denis\_Lamanov](#):
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> You can't downgrade, it is forbidden from 6.8

To be clear, all downgrades are forbidden. Sometimes a downgrade will appear to work (possibly silently losing data) and sometimes they'll fail as reported here, but downgrading to any earlier version is unsupported. This is even true for patch releases like trying to downgrade from 7.1.1 to 7.1.0.

> [@Denis\_Lamanov](#):
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> Actually according to docs you can upgrade ONLY from 6.8 to 7.x

This is not completely true. You can upgrade directly from _any_ 6.y version to any 7.x version (for x ≥ 1) via a [full cluster restart](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/restart-upgrade.html). If you want to perform a [rolling upgrade](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rolling-upgrades.html) you can only do this from 6.8.y to 7.x (for x ≥ 1).

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