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Major Upgrades

In this article we show how you can upgrade your Umbraco Cloud project to latest major version of Umbraco CMS.
Are you using any custom packages or code on your Umbraco Cloud project?
You need to ensure that any packages you use are available in the latest version of Umbraco. You also need to ensure that your custom code is valid with the new .NET Framework version.
Breaking Changes
Make sure you know the Breaking changes in the latest version of Umbraco CMS.

Prerequisites

  • Follow the requirements for local development.
  • A Umbraco Cloud project running the latest version of Umbraco
  • The latest .NET version is installed locally.
  • At least 2 environments on your Cloud project.
  • A backup of your project database.
    • Directly from your environment. See the Database backups article,
    • Or clone down, restore the project, and backup the local database.

Video Tutorial

This video guide you through the steps involved with upgrading your Cloud project to the next major CMS version.

Step 1: Enable .NET

  • Go to the project in the Umbraco Cloud portal.
  • Navigate to Settings -> Advanced.
  • Scroll down to the Runtime Settings section.
  • Ensure that the latest version of .NET is enabled for each environment on your Cloud project.
Runtime settings

Step 2: Clone down your environment

  • Clone down the Development environment.
  • Build and run the project locally.
  • Log in to the backoffice.
  • Restore content from your Cloud environment.

Step 3: Upgrade the project locally using Visual Studio

  • Open your project in Visual Studio - use the csproj file in the /src/UmbracoProject folder.
  • Right-click your project solution in Solution Explorer.
  • Select Properties.
  • Select the same .Net Target Framework drop-down in the General section of the Application tab as on your Cloud project.
Target Framework
  • Go to Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage NuGet Packages for Solution....
  • Navigate to the Updates tab.
  • Checkmark all packages made by Umbraco:
    • Umbraco.Cms
    • Umbraco.Deploy.Cloud
    • Umbraco.Deploy.Contrib
    • Umbraco.Forms
    • Umbraco.Deploy.Forms
    • Umbraco.Cloud.Identity.Cms
  • Checkmark the Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions package if it appears in the list.
  • Select Update.
All packages checked in the Visual Studio Package manager and ready for update
If you have more projects in your solution or other packages, make sure that these are also updated to support the latest .NET framework.

Step 4: Finishing the Upgrade

  • Enable the Unattended Upgrades feature.
  • Run the project locally.
  • Log in to the Umbraco backoffice to verify the upgrade has happened.
  • Disable the Unattended Upgrades feature.
  • Build and run the project to verify everything works as expected.
Target Framework
Once the Umbraco project runs locally without any errors, the next step is to deploy and test on the Cloud Development environment.
We highly recommend that you go through everything in your Development environment. This can help you identify any potential errors after the upgrade, and ensure that you are not deploying any issues onto your Live environment.

Step 5: Going live

Once everything works as expected in the development environment, you can push the upgrade to the live environment.
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