# Gateway version downgrading **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [December 5, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482 "2024-12-05T15:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/1 "2024-12-05T15:53:53Z")
I have a project bkp which is in 8.1.35 and i need to downgrade it to 8.1.24. From most of my searches, i found common suggestions that says uninstall current ignition version 8.1.35 and install 8.1.24. I have already tried doing so and it doesn't works. so is there any way i can do this? ---
**Author:** ![danielps1818](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@danielps1818](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/danielps1818)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/2 "2024-12-05T16:19:14Z")
Did you really uninstall it or simply running the install/modify executable? Also, one of my coworkers had problems with uninstall and installing because it had it on all the users and didn't had the admin priviliges to uninstall on all, only in his one. ---
**Author:** ![Felipe\_CRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Felipe\_CRM](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Felipe_CRM)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/3 "2024-12-05T16:26:38Z")
It can break a lot of things so the only reason to do it is a major issue (which usually has a patch released quickly anyway). That said, pretty much the only way to do it is to **take a backup of your gateway** and then do a fresh install, then attempt to load the backup again: > [@Ignition Downgrade Procedure](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-downgrade-procedure/7139/2): > > The downgrade process isn’t exactly the smoothest: Make (or have on hand already) a gateway backup. Run the uninstaller. Run the installer for the version you want to downgrade to. Ideally you have a gateway backup taken from the version you want to revert to since we don’t promise forward-compatibility, but in this case I’m not sure if anything will prevent a 7.5.10 backup from being restored onto 7.5.4 if you don’t have one already. ---
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/4 "2024-12-05T16:26:45Z")
yes i uninstalled 8.1.35 and just installed 8.1.24 few minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/5 "2024-12-05T16:31:43Z")
yeh i followed this one but it doesn't worked so i come up with the new post. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/6 "2024-12-05T16:32:24Z")
Can you be more clear about what "didn't work"? Did 8.1.24 not install successfully or something? Did the Gateway not start? What's your issue? ---
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/7 "2024-12-05T16:33:59Z")
8.1.24 installed successfully. but i am still un able to restore the gateway backup ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/8 "2024-12-05T16:35:28Z")
What happens when you try? We don't maintain compatibility in that direction, so it's not entirely expected to be possible, though sometimes it is. ---
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/9 "2024-12-05T16:37:05Z")
![Screenshot 2024-12-04 120619](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/0/90173a98d9931f48b8acedfaef39701155461c7f.jpeg) This error comes up ---
**Author:** ![Felipe\_CRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Felipe\_CRM](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Felipe_CRM)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/10 "2024-12-05T16:38:25Z")
You might get farther if you modify a **copy** of the backup (if you rename it to a .zip you can open and change the files inside, then rename back when you're done) to adjust the version info and maybe remove anything that's related to the later version, but it's also likely to just break harder. If you don't have much to lose, you could experiment with it as long as the original backup is in a safe place. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/11 "2024-12-05T16:42:43Z")
A gwbk file is actually just a zip file. Inside that file there is a `backupinfo.xml` file. Inside that file you can try changing the version to something like `8.1.26.2023032308`. There's no guarantee this backup will restore properly though. ---
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/12 "2024-12-05T16:46:41Z")
Well it looks like a hard way to go, so i will have to do it in the last if there is no other way out. but thanks, that is helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nisarg\_Gujjar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nisarg_Gujjar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/13 "2024-12-05T16:47:33Z")
how can i open it? by changing the extension to .zip? ---
**Author:** ![Felipe\_CRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Felipe\_CRM](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Felipe_CRM)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/14 "2024-12-05T16:51:00Z")
Pretty much, you just change the extension and then it's a regular zip file. You may or may not need to extract the files to make changes. (There's software like 7zip that lets you edit files more or less "in-place".) After you're done, make sure everything is zipped back up like it was at the beginning and rename back to .gwbk ---
**Author:** ![govind.suthar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@govind.suthar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/govind.suthar)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/15 "2026-07-17T11:29:42Z")
Renamed the file type gwbk to zip file, opened the backupinfo.xml file in notepad and changed the version.8.1.50 to 8.1.45 After changing the version, again renamed file type from .zip to .gwbk, tried to restore the backup to the 8.1.45 version gateway, but got the same error. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/2/4201741b4e1b8e35bfd44b200648ebe278ffdc9c.png) ---
**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/16 "2026-07-17T13:33:40Z")
I'm trying to figure out why you'd ever do a downgrade. Whenever there's a regression that's significant the update is usually pulled so there's no good reason to downgrade. Many times there's buy fixes and security updates in these newer versions also. If you updated and it broke something, did you not try this on a test server first? ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-version-downgrading/99482/17 "2026-07-17T16:41:28Z")
And if you did upgrade and it broke something, where's the backup you took before the upgrade.