You use Sitefinity CLI to upgrade your project running on Sitefinity CMS version 10.0 or higher. We recommend that you always upgrade to the latest version. For information about the supported Sitefinity CMS versions, see Sitefinity Life Cycle Policy Guide.
This upgrade approach has the following main advantages:
Install Sitefinity CLI from Sitefinity GitHub repository » Sitefinity CLI.
IMPORTANT: When you run Sitefinity CLI, we recommend that you keep the project under source control, because there is no rollback mechanism in case something goes wrong. You must not close the Visual Studio that is opened by Sitefinity CLI, because this will cancel the upgrade.
Run Sitefinity CLI and enter an upgrade command with the following syntax:
sf upgrade "{{path to the solution you want to upgrade}}" "{{version you are upgrading to}}"
Note that entering a specific Sitefinity CMS version is optional. In case you do not provide a version option, the latest version available will be used for the upgrade.
EXAMPLE: Run Sitefinity CLI and enter the following command: sf upgrade "D:\TestProject\SitefinityWebApp.sln" "13.3.7600"
The upgrade command has the following optional parameters:
-nc
--nugetConfigPath
http://nuget.sitefinity.com
https://nuget.org/api/v3/index.json
NuGet.Config
EXAMPLE: Run Sitefinity CLI and enter the following command: sf upgrade "D:\TestProject\SitefinityWebApp.sln" "13.3.7600" --nugetConfigPath "D:\TestProject\NuGet.Config"
--acceptLicense
EXAMPLE: Run Sitefinity CLI and enter the following command: sf upgrade "D:\TestProject\SitefinityWebApp.sln" "13.3.7600" --acceptLicense
If you use this parameter, you automatically accept Sitefinity CMS license agreement and do not have to explicitly accept it. You can find the license after the upgrade in the Licenses folder in the Sitefinity package. For example, ~\packages\Progress.Sitefinity.MobileFormats.13.3.7600\LicenseAgreements.
~\packages\Progress.Sitefinity.MobileFormats.13.3.7600\LicenseAgreements
IMPORTANT: Using this parameter means that you automatically accept the license agreement and any changes included in it. If you do not agree to the new license, you must uninstall the product.
--skipPrompts
When you run the upgrade command, the specified version of NuGet packages is downloaded in the folder of the solution. You are prompted to accept the license agreement. A new Visual Studio instance is launched and a NuGet command to install the NuGet packages is started. The upgrade command modifies the references in the .csproj project and binding redirects, if needed. The upgrade command modifies references for Sitefinity projects only.
upgrade
.csproj
Once Sitefinity CLI has completed the upgrade process, make sure to rebuild your project.
NOTE: When you upgrade monolingual projects, make sure to reindex all frontend indices. If the indices are not reindexed, they might return two records for the same item - one with culture and one without.
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