# Upgrade percona mysql 5.6 to 5.7

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**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x\
**Tags:** mysql, percona\
**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-percona-mysql-5-6-to-5-7/16943 "2022-08-08T16:38:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daljit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a698b9/32.png) [@Daljit1](https://forums.percona.com/u/Daljit1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-percona-mysql-5-6-to-5-7/16943/1 "2022-08-08T16:38:54Z")

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Hi Connection,

Please someone can share the document for the upgradation from percona mysql 5.6 to 5.7.

Below are the details of my database version.

# mysql --version

mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.34-79.1, for debian-linux-gnu (x86\_64) using readline 6.3

#cat /etc/os-release  
NAME=“Ubuntu”  
VERSION=“14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr”  
ID=ubuntu  
ID\_LIKE=debian  
PRETTY\_NAME=“Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS”  
VERSION\_ID=“14.04”

Highly thankfully in advance.

Daljit Singh

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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Groenewold](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ivan_groenewold/32/6299_2.png) [@Ivan\_Groenewold](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ivan_Groenewold)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-percona-mysql-5-6-to-5-7/16943/2 "2022-08-09T12:49:02Z")

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Hello, see [Percona Server In-Place Upgrading Guide: From 5.6 to 5.7 — Percona Server 5.7 Documentation](https://docs.percona.com/percona-server/5.7/upgrading_guide_56_57.html)

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**Author:** ![CTutte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ctutte/32/1341_2.png) [@CTutte](https://forums.percona.com/u/CTutte)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-percona-mysql-5-6-to-5-7/16943/3 "2022-08-15T12:59:03Z")

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Do also note that latest 5.7 is NOT available for Ubuntu 14.04.  
You need to either do multiple upgrades to latest 5.6 on Ubuntu 18.04 and then to 5.7 on Ubuntu 18.04, or compile yourself for 14.04 which might require extra dependencies that can be hard to satisfy.

Regards