Title: Update process from old version Last modified: February 6, 2022 --- # Update process from old version * Resolved [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * (@gerdski) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/) * Hello, * I have to update the Plugin from Version 3.7.4.2 On your Support Forum you write( to another user): * — Hello, Versions that old can no longer be easily updated to 5.x. Either a custom install script needs to be made or updates have to be done via intermediate versions. — * Can you tell me which intermediate versions have to be used and what has to be done/taken care of? (I can handle PHP and MySQL) * Thanks 🙂 Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Thread Starter [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * (@gerdski) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15333724) * I just found another thread, actually started by myself 🙂 some time ago: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-no-ad-id-set-check-your-syntax-after-update/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-no-ad-id-set-check-your-syntax-after-update/) Here you explain how to do it. But I cannot find the intermediate version 4.18.2 for download. Is there another version that would work? * Thanks! * Plugin Author [Arnan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adegans/) * (@adegans) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15338574) * Same place as where you got it last time – [https://wordpress.org/plugins/adrotate/advanced/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/adrotate/advanced/) * Thread Starter [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * (@gerdski) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15345780) * Last time I made the mistake of upgrading without intermediate versions. This time i tried to avoid it. Sorry but I cannot find 4.18.2. on this site 🙁 * Thread Starter [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * (@gerdski) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15357777) * No idea where to get 4.1.18? Maybe a different Version will do? * Thread Starter [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * (@gerdski) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15362254) * There seems to be a misunderstanding here. I need to update from 3.7.4.2 to the newest version. You told me that it has to be done not directly but by intermediate Versions: * — Versions of AdRotate that old can no longer be updated without doing some ‘ in-between’ updates. For example to version 4.0, 4.18.2, 5.0 and then to the latest version. — * But 4.18.2 does not exist, so I cannot work with your solution 🙁 * Plugin Author [Arnan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adegans/) * (@adegans) * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15497664) * Hi, somehow I lost track of this and another topic… so stupid late reply. And yes, there is no version 4.18.2 for AdRotate, that’s a pro version. * So that’s confusing for your solution 😞 Anyway the idea is that you grab an early and last version of each major version as intermediate versions. So for example – 4.0 then 4.15.x then 5.0 and so on. * The early version isn’t really required, but I find it helps with the major version bump to eliminate the one in a million chance of that being an issue. One or 2 extra in-between updates is always faster than fixing a borked database because of old data or poor maintenance/old code or whatever quirks may lurk on your website/server. * Thread Starter [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * (@gerdski) * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15497804) * That would have been the answer we were looking for a month ago. But, since we could not reach you, we had no chance but do a complete reinstall of the current version. That worked, because there were not many active ads. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Update process from old version’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/adrotate/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3117289) * [AdRotate Banner Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/adrotate/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/adrotate/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adrotate/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adrotate/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adrotate/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adrotate/reviews/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Gerdski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerdski/) * Last activity: [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-process-from-old-version/#post-15497804) * Status: resolved