Upgrading Elasticsearch

This section describes how to upgrade an Elasticsearch installation to a newer release on Ubuntu. To upgrade Elasticsearch, do the following:

  1. Unpin your Elasticsearch:

    sudo vi /etc/apt/preferences.d/elasticsearch
  2. Verify that the source list for Elasticsearch version 7.x or 8.x is up to date:

    sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list
  3. Verify that the Elasticsearch version is listed:

    apt list -a elasticsearch
  4. Upgrade the Elasticsearch Debian package:

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade elasticsearch
  5. Restart the Elasticsearch service:

    sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service

Elasticsearch is now upgraded.