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Upgrading Installations

Upgrade Servoy 7.x Installations to Servoy 8.x

For smart and web clients 7 or 8 is for the most part the same, 8 could have a few fixes more (and will be fixed faster/more, not everything will be backported)

For using the NGClient see: NGClient Compatibility 

Upgrading Servoy Application Server

Installations running an older version of Servoy can't be upgraded, thus a new installation is required. See Installing the Application Server for more information.

Upgrading Servoy Developer

Mac users need to do a clean installation because of the underlying change that eclipse made for OSX.

Existing Window users Servoy 7.x installations can be upgraded to Servoy 8.x. In order to do so, open the Available Update Sites preferences and edit the URL of the Servoy update site entry:

• Open Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites
• Find the entry named Servoy update site and select the row
• Click Edit 
• Change the Location field from https://www.servoy.com/developer/70x_updates to https://www.servoy.com/developer/8xx_updates
• Close all dialogs
• Go to Help > Check for updates to trigger the update
• After the update has completed, restart Servoy Developer
• when Servoy Developer is launched again, it will prompt for an update of the underlying Servoy Application Server.

Servoy Developer installations of older Servoy version cannot be upgraded, so a new installation with the Servoy 7 installer is required. See Installing Developer for more information.

Upgrading Existing Solutions

Upgrading existing Solutions to Servoy 8 is as easy as opening Servoy Developer 8 and getting the Solutions into the workspace or opening an existing workspace in Servoy 8. Note that once solutions are edited using Servoy 8, they cannot be used in earlier versions of Servoy anymore.