# Percona upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6

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**Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.6\
**Created:** [November 5, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-upgrade-from-5-5-to-5-6/3057 "2013-11-05T01:11:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![roni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/roni/32/890_2.png) [@roni](https://forums.percona.com/u/roni)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-upgrade-from-5-5-to-5-6/3057/1 "2013-11-05T01:11:32Z")

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I am using Percona 5.5 as our production server. I need to upgrade this server into 5.6.If anybody did this upgrade please help me to upgrade my server

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-upgrade-from-5-5-to-5-6/3057/2 "2013-11-05T05:08:54Z")

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Roni, you can follow the official documentation from [Percona.com](http://Percona.com) website - [URL][Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 - Documentation — Percona Server 8.0 Documentation](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/upgrading_guide_55_56.html%5B/URL%5D)  
Mind you that this upgrade will incur downtime, and since you are dealing with production it would be wise do make a replica of the production server then point your application to the replica while you update your production servers.