Upgrading
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
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Upgrades between minor versions of the agent, like from 3.1 to 3.2 are always backwards compatible. Upgrades that involve a major version bump often come with some backwards incompatible changes.
Before upgrading the agent, be sure to review the:
The following upgrade guides are also available:
- Upgrade to version 5.x - Follow this guide to upgrade from version
4.xto version5.xof the Elastic APM RUM JS Agent.
We love all our products, but sometimes we must say goodbye to a release so that we can continue moving forward on future development and innovation. Our End of life policy defines how long a given release is considered supported, as well as how long a release is considered still in active development or maintenance. The table below is a simplified description of this policy.
| Agent version | EOL Date | Maintained until |
|---|---|---|
| 4.8.x | 2021-08-13 | 4.9.0 |
| 4.7.x | 2021-07-15 | 4.8.0 |
| 4.6.x | 2021-05-19 | 4.7.0 |
| 4.5.x | 2021-03-30 | 4.6.0 |
| 4.4.x | 2021-02-05 | 4.5.0 |
| 4.3.x | 2021-01-11 | 4.4.0 |
| 4.2.x | 2021-01-08 | 4.3.0 |
| 4.1.x | 2020-12-12 | 4.2.0 |
| 4.0.x | 2020-09-11 | 4.1.0 |
| 3.0.x | 2020-07-29 | 5.0.0 |
| 2.3.x | 2020-06-18 | 4.0.0 |
| 2.2.x | 2020-06-05 | 2.3.0 |
| 2.1.x | 2020-06-03 | 2.2.0 |
| 2.0.x | 2020-05-14 | 2.1.0 |
| 1.0.x | 2020-02-23 | 3.0.0 |