# Upgrade kibana from 5.1.2 to 5.6.15

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-from-5-1-2-to-5-6-15/189866
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-from-5-1-2-to-5-6-15/189866 "2019-07-10T20:10:05Z")
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### Author: ![sandipatmca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sandipatmca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandipatmca)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-from-5-1-2-to-5-6-15/189866/1 "2019-07-10T20:10:05Z")

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We are using 5.1.2 version of Elastic/Kibana/Logstash & xpack & 0.4.0-1 version of logstash-forwarder.  
We are planning to upgrade Kibana from 5.1.2 to 5.6.15(due to some security issues).Can someone please suggest if that would require us to upgrade Elastic,xpack,logstash & logstash-forwarder as well?? Or 5.6.15 kibana is compatible with prior version of those application.  
I read somewhere that if Elastic version should be always higher or equal to kibana major/minor version.How about other application,Do i need to upgrade those as well and to what version.  
Kindly suggest

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### Author: ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-from-5-1-2-to-5-6-15/189866/2 "2019-07-10T20:15:17Z")

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You will need to updated Elasticsearch. Kibana will not start with an older minor version of elasticsearch. See [https://github.com/elastic/kibana#version-compatibility-with-elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/kibana#version-compatibility-with-elasticsearch) for details.

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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: [August 7, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-from-5-1-2-to-5-6-15/189866/3 "2019-08-07T20:15:18Z")

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