Good day everyone,
I'm planning a yearly upgrade from 2025.1 to the January 2026 release, and this is my first time handling this process.
Is it recommended to upgrade incrementally (2025.1 → 2025.2, etc.), or is it safe to jump directly to the latest version?
#Tableau Server
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do you mean from 2025.1 to 2025.3 ? Then there is nothing is between. That's the only jump you can do for major release. Version 2025.2 being for Tableau Cloud only.
Tableau Server has a 3 major version every two years release cycle while Tableau Cloud has 6.
If you are new to this, do a lot of reading. The upgrade documentation is fine:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/upgrade.htmIf you have to do an in-place software upgrade, then rehearse and test first on a dev/qa environment. And have backup/restore strategy for you prod.
If you can, I would recommend a blue-green deployment approach where you provision another server in advance, similar to prod, so you can validate quietly and rollback if needed:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/server-upgrade-blue-green.htm
