Upgrading both the VM software and virtual hardware requires some downtime for your instance, so be sure to plan the upgrade in advance. You can schedule a maintenance window to notify your users.

Upgrading GitHub Enterprise

Upgrade GitHub Enterprise to get the latest features and security updates.

What's new in this release?

Use this guide to learn about the new features, improvements, and changes in this GitHub Enterprise release.

Enabling automatic update checks

By enabling automatic update checks, your instance will determine if it's running the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. If it isn't, GitHub Enterprise will download the latest release for you. An administrator can then perform the upgrade.

Increasing storage capacity

You can increase or change the amount of storage available for Git repositories, databases, search indexes, and other persistent application data.

Increasing CPU or memory resources

To add CPU or memory resources to an existing GitHub Enterprise instance, shut down the instance and use the underlying virtual platform's tools to allocate the resources to the virtual machine. The newly allocated resources are automatically recognized on boot and no additional configuration is necessary.

Migrating from GitHub Enterprise 11.10.x to 2.1.23

Migrating from GitHub Enterprise 11.10.x requires setting up a new appliance instance and migrating data from the previous instance using the GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities.