# MySQL 5.7.30 to MySQL 8

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215>\
**Category:** MySQL & MariaDB\
**Tags:** percona\
**Created:** [May 20, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215 "2023-05-20T19:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![santhosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@santhosh](https://forums.percona.com/u/santhosh)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215/1 "2023-05-20T19:21:20Z")

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Hi Team ,

Right now our MySQL version is 5.7.30, if we want to upgrade to MySQL 8.0.XX, which is the stable version that we can upgrade to ?

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215/2 "2023-05-20T23:40:04Z")

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Hello @santhosh,  
I would recommend 8.0.28 or 8.0.32.

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**Author:** ![santhosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@santhosh](https://forums.percona.com/u/santhosh)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215/3 "2023-05-22T16:02:34Z")

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We have couple of questions please.

If we want to upgrade MySQL from 5.7.30 to 8.0.28 or 8.0.32. do we have to first upgrade latest MySQL 5.7.41-44 or can we jump to directly 8.0.28 or 8.0.32.

2)For suppose if we upgrade from 5.7.30 to 5.7.41-44, can we downgrade to 5.7.30 if we want too?

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215/4 "2023-05-22T20:01:53Z")

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> [@santhosh](#):
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> do we have to first upgrade latest MySQL 5.7.41-44

No you do not.

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> 2)For suppose if we upgrade from 5.7.30 to 5.7.41-44, can we downgrade to 5.7.30 if we want too?

Yes. In 5.7 it is easy to rollback to previous patch versions. In MySQL 8, you cannot do this.

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**Author:** ![pbirch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/pbirch/32/2865_2.png) [@pbirch](https://forums.percona.com/u/pbirch)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-5-7-30-to-mysql-8/22215/5 "2023-05-24T12:21:26Z")

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[Downgrade in the documentation](https://docs.percona.com/percona-server/8.0/downgrade.html)