Migration from 4.0.7 to 4.5.3

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: 4.0.7
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 18
  • Database: Mysql
  • Node Version: v16.14.0
  • NPM Version: 8.4.1
  • Yarn Version:

I have trouble understanding how to migrate from 4.0.7 to 4.5.3.
The documentation says that I should be doing each migration for each version.

The migration guides are sequential, meaning if there is more than 1 migration guide between your current version and the latest release, follow each guide in order.
Migration guide from 4.0.0+ to 4.0.6
Migration guide from 4.0.6+ to 4.1.8
Migration guide from 4.1.8+ to 4.1.10
Migration guide from 4.2.x to 4.3.x
Migration guide from 4.3.6 to 4.3.8
Migration guide from 4.4.3 to 4.4.5
Migration guide from 4.4.5 to 4.5.1

If I understand correctly I have to go through each of the above migration one by one.
Now from 4.1.10 to 4.2.x I will have to do a regular migration, just by updating the package.json
And after that migration I would have to continue here at 4.2.x to 4.3.x etc…
Correct?

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Alright I will answer my own question with what seems to have worked well.
I went through the migration guides:

Migration guide from 4.0.6+ to 4.1.8
Migration guide from 4.1.8+ to 4.1.10
Migration guide from 4.2.x to 4.3.x
Migration guide from 4.3.6 to 4.3.8
Migration guide from 4.4.3 to 4.4.5
Migration guide from 4.4.5 to 4.5.1

Then I only looked for the breaking changes section or database migration, and applied all those changes at once.

The I upgraded the package.json with 4.5.4
Then npm Install and npm run build.
Restart the server, everything was upgraded and working.

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Hey, quick question
how did you proceed upgrading from 4.3.8 to 4.4.x?
did you straight upgrade 4.3.8 to 4.4.3?

we are currently considering upgrading from 4.3.6 but i can’t seem to find a guide for 4.3.x migrations to 4.4.x

TIA

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I’m trying to upgrade like you do and can’t manage to get from 4.3.8 to 4.4.x, did you succeed ? I can’t seem to figure what’s wrong

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i just did a striaght upgrade from 4.3.8 to 4.4.3
spun up the server, checked if everything works or if any problems were present and then proceeded upgrading