Neo4j > Administration and Maintenance > Upgrading
Neo4j supports automatic upgrade for upgrades between patch releases and within the same minor version. However, upgrading a major release is manual. In this section, I will show how to do manual and automatic upgrade.
Automatic Upgrade
Follow the steps below:
1- Shut down the older Neo4j version. 2- Install the new version and configure it to use the same old data store directory. 3- Take a copy of the database. 4- Start Neo4j.
Manual Upgrade
Follow the steps below:
1- Shut down the older Neo4j version. 2- Install the new version and configure it to use the same old data store directory. 3- Configure the configuration parameter allow_store_upgrade=true 4- Start Neo4j. 5- Configure the configuration parameter allow_store_upgrade=false