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# Upgrade instructions

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We update all the time, often multiple times per day.
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Make sure you're following our canny:

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It's not necessarily a great idea to force updates on everyone (think about Windows 10 here), but you should periodically do manual updates to the latest version, or you'll be missing lots of stuff.
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I just updated a customer today who was so out of date they didn't even have themes 🤯 😱&#x20;

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**Upgrading to the latest version of the ESP platform has now been automated**

Just log into your server and use the new ./upgrade.sh tool
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Here's how to get started:&#x20;

`cd edcom-install`

To see the command line options for the upgrade tool, run this command:

.`/upgrade.sh -h`

```
Usage: ./upgrade.sh [--check-only] | [--no-prompt]
   
--check-only: Check for latest version and exit 

--no-prompt: Do not prompt for confirmation before upgrading
```

You can see if your version is out of date by just running a version check:

`./upgrade.sh --check-only`

```
Your platform version is NOT the latest version

Your platform version: 1.20231023.0211 Latest version: 1.20231024.0316
```

To upgrade, run the tool by itself without any extra options:

`./upgrade.sh`

```
Your platform version is NOT the latest version

Your platform version: 1.20231023.0211 Latest version: 1.20231024.0316

Do you want to proceed with upgrading your platform? [y/n]: y
```

If there's a newer version out, you'll be prompted to upgrade now, or you can wait until a better time.&#x20;

If you choose to be upgraded, you'll see output similar to the following:

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```
Downloading upgrade script...

Running upgrade script...

Downloading upgrade package...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1493 0 1493 0 0 3164 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3163 100 907M 100 907M 0 0 80.2M 0 

Extracting...
```

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The new version will be downloaded and installed while preserving your data and settings, and then your platform will be automatically restarted.
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When you see this, it means you're done and ready to log back in on your web browser:&#x20;
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