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Kiuwan CoreKiuwan On-Premises itself. This is the image version of your Kiuwan containers (front, analyzer and scheduler nodes).
Kiuwan ClientsKiuwan On-Premises clients. These are the clients provided along with your current Kiuwan On-Premises installation. Sometimes clients may be updated without the need of a full Kiuwan On-Premises upgrade that includes Kiuwan Core. See Upgrading Kiuwan On-Premises (only clients) Upgrade: clients only mode section for more information.
Installed versionThis column shows the version name of the current installed versions (both for Kiuwan core and clients).
Last available versionThis column shows the latest available version of Kiuwan core and clients.
StatusWhen a new version is detected this column will indicate that an upgrade is available.
Minimum Kiuwan On-Premises version needed to upgrade clientsIf your current Kiuwan Core version is less than this version, new versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients will not be available for your installation anymore. If you want to upgrade, it is mandatory to perform a full upgrade. See Upgrading Kiuwan On-Premises (full) Upgrade: full mode section for more information.

Upgrade modes

You can choose either to upgrade only Kiuwan On-Premises clients or perform a full upgrade to your Kiuwan On-Premises installation.

Clients only mode

You can choose to upgrade only Kiuwan On-Premises clients as long as their latest versions are compatible with your currently installed Kiuwan core.

Kiuwan On-Premises clients are those Kiuwan products that your Kiuwan On-Premises servers will provide to your users:

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Sometimes new versions of Kiuwan clients are published to fix bugs or include new features. If new versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients are available and you want to upgrade your installation to make your Kiuwan On-Premises servers provide the latest available versions of each client , please follow this guidebut keep your Kiuwan services untouched, choose this upgrade mode.

Note

Do not mix up what a Kiuwan On-Premises client version is. These are different concepts:

  • Client versions stored in your Kiuwan On-Premises servers: these are the versions that your Kiuwan On-Premises server provides to be downloaded and installed on your CI systems, development computers, etc. This versions are those shown in the System Administration Console.
  • Client versions installed in your company's laptops, CI systems, etc.: these are the versions that were installed after your first Kiuwan On-Premises installation or subsequent upgrades. Once you upgrade your installation client versions, your company's computers may have old versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients. The following steps address how to upgrade these as well.

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Full mode

You can choose to upgrade only The full mode upgrade will upgrade both Kiuwan On-Premises clients as long as their latest versions are compatible with your currently installed and Kiuwan core services.

Full mode

You can choose to upgrade only Kiuwan On-Premises clients as long as their latest versions are compatible with your currently installed Kiuwan coreKeep in mind that when choosing this mode you should always download a new kiuwan-cluster version. The latest version is always available here: https://static.kiuwan.com/download/onpremise/kiuwan-cluster.tar.gz.

Upgrade: common steps

Either you are upgrading only clients or performing a full upgrade, your must follow this steps before continuing.

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