How safe is a large upgrade? (3.120 straight to 3.223)

I've inherited a self-hosted retool installation on version 3.120 (helm 6.2.x) and I'm aware we're quite far behind. I want to upgrade to the latest version but I'm wary of large jumps.

Besides backing up data and thoroughly reviewing the installation after upgrades, is there anything about the Retool release increments or contents, that I should be aware of before I try either one big or several small upgrades?

I assume you're using the Edge release? I would at least upgrade in steps of the major (stable) release, 3.148 and 3.196.

The chart here: Self-hosted Retool Stable releases | Retool Docs used to show an upgrade path, but I don't see it anymore.

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Hello @Dave_Cranwell!

I would echo @mbruijnpff's recommendation to break up the move into smaller moves to the stale releases.

Here is one of our docs with more details on incremental upgrades. You will be able to view the changes, which will help you understand if there are any components or features that are depreciated that will be either missing or not supported as the apps change.

Also @Dave_Cranwell,

It seems we have two apps for comparing versions, one for stable to stable releases. this app will show you which versions to upgrade to on that path!

Another one for moving from edge release to other edge releases here. I would say move to the closest stable first, then use the stable-to-stable app to get up to most recent as needed.