Upgrading the service

Learn how to upgrade the version of your installed service deployment.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

This information applies only to installed deployments.

Upgrade your deployment

The steps to follow to upgrade your Discovery service instance are described in the IBM Cloud Pak for Data documentation. The following in-place upgrades are supported:

From a 5.0.x release to a later 5.0 release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From a 4.7.x release or 4.8.x release to the latest 5.0 release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From one 4.8.x release to a later 4.8 release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From a 4.6.x release or 4.7.x release to the latest 4.8 release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From one 4.7.x release to a later 4.7.y release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery to a newer 4.7 refresh.
From a 4.6.x release to the latest 4.7 release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From a 4.0.x, 4.5.x, or earlier 4.6.x release to the latest 4.6 release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From a 4.0.x release or from one 4.5.x release to a later 4.5.y release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery.
From one 4.0.x release to a later 4.0.y release. For more information, see Upgrading Watson Discovery to a newer 4.0 refresh.

You cannot do an in-place upgrade from releases prior to version 4.x. For information about how to move from a 2.x deployment to IBM Watson® Discovery 4.5, see Backing up and restoring data in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.