SAP: Upgrading Hybris from version 5.1.1 to 6.2

Question

We have SAP Hybris Commerce version 5.1.1 with custom extensions installed. Now we need to upgrade it to newest version 6.2.

My question is: Can we upgrade it to 6.2 and skip all versions between 5.1 and 6.2? Or must it be done by upgrading to 5.2, then to 5.3 and so on?

Answer 1

Yep - 5.1.1 to 6.2 ought to work (I've been working on a project that's done exactly this).

You will probably have to make some changes - watch out for any customisations you've made - it might be worth reading through the release docs to have an idea of what's changed - off the top of my head the structure of add ons is one area that's a bit different between 5.1 and 6.2, but otherwise things should work OK in theory.

Answer 2

Yes you can directly update to 6.2.

It's important to regulary update your hybris version. You should not have so much gap with current version. Indeed it become tougher to migrate your custom code.

Upgrading each minor version in a row is totally useless most of the time. Only do this if you have issues you can't solve while migrating to the target version.

You should take a look at this migration documentation and this guide (it can be used even if it doesn't match your version).

Note that some stuff like promotion are totally different in hybris 6 so you can expect some trouble to migrate everything. Take care of your extensions generated with old template also.