# Upgrade Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 11, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828 "2016-08-11T14:26:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Campos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jose_campos/32/11259_2.png) [@Jose\_Campos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jose_Campos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/1 "2016-08-11T14:26:01Z")

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Hi there

Can you tell me how to upgrade elasticsearch?, if a have to install again or there are some repositories.

Thanks for all!

Greetings

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/2 "2016-08-11T14:30:06Z")

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How did you initially install ES?

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Campos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jose_campos/32/11259_2.png) [@Jose\_Campos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jose_Campos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/3 "2016-08-11T16:17:27Z")

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Downloading the .zip and configuring elasticsearch.yml

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/4 "2016-08-11T16:29:53Z")

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Read the release notes for all versions between the versions in question, unpack the new zip file, migrate the configuration file, move the data directory into place (unless the data directory is elsewhere). If you're upgrading from 1.x to 2.x you should use the migration plugin prior to the upgrade.

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Campos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jose_campos/32/11259_2.png) [@Jose\_Campos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jose_Campos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/5 "2016-08-11T16:44:57Z")

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Thanks for all

I am using ES 2.0.0 but I need upgrade it to latest version that is 2.3.5 to install Shield. Is the plugin only for the versions 1.x to 2.x?.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/6 "2016-08-11T16:56:42Z")

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See [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-migration](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-migration).

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch/57828/7 "2017-07-05T22:28:18Z")

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