# How to upgrade to the latest version

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/how-to-upgrade-to-the-latest-version/4976>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** developer-experience\
**Created:** [October 12, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/how-to-upgrade-to-the-latest-version/4976 "2024-10-12T09:30:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jyong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@Jyong](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Jyong)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/how-to-upgrade-to-the-latest-version/4976/1 "2024-10-12T09:30:10Z")

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hi team , my local docker image is 0.19.0, may I know how to upgrade the version to the latest tag , are there any breaking changes ? thanks in advance ~

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/how-to-upgrade-to-the-latest-version/4976/2 "2024-10-13T01:48:15Z")

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hi @Jyong !!

There is a lot of changes from that version.

You can go the route of upgrading. That will require you to migrate to latest of 0.20.X, then 0.21.X and so on.

However, for such a huge gap, I believe it would be better to copy your data over to a new cluster.

Check this migration guide on help to do it:

> **[Migrate data | Weaviate](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/manage-data/migrate)**
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**Author:** ![Dirk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dirk/32/46_2.png) [@Dirk](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Dirk)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/how-to-upgrade-to-the-latest-version/4976/3 "2024-10-13T07:47:03Z")

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> [@Jyong](#):
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> 0.19.0

That would be incredibly old - are you sure that this is the version of the weaviate image?
