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When a new version of TeamCity is detected, the server displays the corresponding health item for system administrators.
Since TeamCity 2017.2, the health The item points to the server's Administration | Updates page, where all the versions available for the update are listed. The page contains notes about licenses compatibility, the new version description and controls to perform the automatic upgrade if you want to use that instead of performing the manual updating procedure.
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- Create a backup. When upgrading from TeamCity 6.0+ you will also have a chance to create a backup with the "basic" profile on the TeamCity Maintenance Mode page on the updated TeamCity start.
- Note the username used to run the TeamCity server. You will need it during the new version installation.
- If you have any of the Windows service settings customized, store them to repeat the customizations later.
- Note if you are using 64 bit Java to run the service (e.g. check for "64" in "Java VM info" on the server's Administration | Diagnostics or in a thread dump), consider backing up
<TeamCity home>\jredirectory. - (optional as these will not be overwritten by the upgrade) If you have any customizations of the bundled Tomcat server (like port, https protocol, etc.), JRE, etc. Backup those to repeat the customizations later.
- Note if you have local agent installed (though, it is not recommended to have a local agent) so that you can select the same option in the installer.
Run the new installer and point it to the same place TeamCity is installed into ( the location used for installation is remembered automatically). Confirm uninstalling the previous installation. The TeamCity uninstaller ensures proper uninstallation, but you might want to make sure the TeamCity server installation directory does not contain any non-customized files after uninstallation finishes. If there are any, backup/remove them before proceeding with the installation.
Info The main server configuration file
<TeamCity Home Directory>/conf/server.xmlis updated automatically when there were no changes to it since the last installation. If modification were made, the installer will detect them and backup the oldserver.xmlfile displaying a warning about the overwrite and the backup file location. Other files underconfcan be overwitten to their default content as well, so if you have made manual modifications in those, check them after the upgrade.- If prompted, specify the
<TeamCity data directory>used by the previous installation. - (Optional as these will not be overwritten by the upgrade) Make sure you have the external database driver installed (this applies only if you use an external database).
- Check and restore any customizations of Windows services and Tomcat configuration that you need. When upgrading from versions 7.1 and earlier, make sure to transfer the server memory setting to the environment variables.
- If you were using 64 bit Java to run the server restore the
<TeamCity home>\jredirectory previously backed up or repeat the 64 bit Java installation steps. - If you use a customized Log4j configuration in the
conf\teamcity-server-log4j.xmlfile and want to preserve it (note, however, that customizing the file is actually not recommended, use logging presets instead), compare and mergeconf\teamcity-server-log4j.xml.backupcreated by the installer from the existing copy with the default file saved with the default name. Since TeamCity 2017.1 compare Compare theconf\teamcity-*-log4j.xml.distfile with the correspondingconf\teamcity-*-log4j.xmlfile and make sure that.xmlfile contains all the.distfile defaults. It is recommended to copy the.distfile over to the corresponding.xmlfile until you really need the changed logging configuration. - Start up the TeamCity server (and agent, if it was installed together with the installer).
- Review the TeamCity Maintenance Mode page to make sure there are no problems encountered, and confirm the upgrade by clicking the corresponding button. Only after that all data will be converted to the newer format.
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