With that age of a system, I'd either leave it alone or replace it with a new Jenkins version. I wouldn't attempt to upgrade it "in place".
If you decide to not leave it alone, refer to the https://jenkins.io/doc/upgrade-guide/ and realize that you're moving across a 2 year gap and a major version number change, with significant new functionality added in that two year period. Jenkins 2 is really great, and has real, very serious advantages over 1.609.3. Some of those advantages include: - Blue Ocean user experience is intensely focused on developers - Pipeline expresses job definitions in a domain specific language tuned to continuous delivery - Multi-branch Pipeline will create and destroy jobs automatically based on discovered branches - Java 8 is required (placing you on a currently supported JDK) - Many security advisories have been resolved - Performance and scale improvements - Reliability improvements - Significant enhancements in many plugins Mark Waite On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:44 PM louwho <louels...@comcast.net> wrote: > Off and on, I have touched upon Jenkins. My expertise is InstallShield > development, with some Release engineering. Anyway, new project, taking > over the Jenkins build system also. Current Jenkins version is 1.609.3, > the Jenkins LTS is now 2.6.03. Putting aside (for now), the old adage of > 'if it an't broken, don't fix it', are there any real advantages to > upgrading to the latest version, or should I just leave it alone? The > product builds are building PowerBuilder and Java products..and then > InstallShield, copies to AWS S3, etc. We are also considering using some > third party tools that will allow us to move the Powerbuilder stuff from > the CVS repository to GIT. As an aside, does anyone know if you can have > two versions of PowerBuilder on the same build system? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/70caafe3-ec9a-4730-ada5-e598b401973a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/70caafe3-ec9a-4730-ada5-e598b401973a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFDVK28Tz_FYuGG7J1vqbZx5-14ePOkOJNK3wG64voM5w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
