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Comment: DOCU-1786

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  1. Update to your latest minor release version first before upgrade to recent major release. For example as of May 2017, a customer would like to upgrade from 5.4.1 to 5.5.4 (latest release at that time), then the correct sequence would be 5.4.8 --> 5.4.12 --> 5.5.4 instead of  5.4.8 --> 5.5 --> 5.5.34.
  2. Carefully look for "change" sections such as [Release notes Changes for Magnolia CORE 5.4.12#Changefor5.4.x users] whereas that changes is necessary in this specific case when you are updating from 5.4.1 solely.
  3. Because upgrading process takes time and vulnerable to incidents, please minimize the risk by clean up your system, remove unused data, reindex everything and do a full backup first.

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