# Licence from 7.8 to 7.9?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/licence-from-7-8-to-7-9/71839>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** license, ignition79\
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/licence-from-7-8-to-7-9/71839 "2023-03-30T15:55:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/licence-from-7-8-to-7-9/71839/4 "2023-03-30T18:03:48Z")

</div>

Other than the license, some other considerations;

> [@Upgrading from 7.8.5](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/upgrading-from-7-8-5/54276/7):
>
> Concur with Phil. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”. For 7.8…x to 7.9.x you’re looking at a minimum of one 15 minute outage. Prior to the day planned as per attached PDF, I took a GWBK and ran in a sandbox with 10X testing for a month (10X means, if normally 3K tags, use a script to generate another 27K, if normally 10 clients open, run 100, etc). Contact your IA sales rep and they should assist with a 30-day temp licence for this, or if you are an Integrator, avail of your R&D license. A 7.…

7.9.4 has some potential bugs, and a known security vulnerability. If you do bring this 7.8 to 7.9, you should really bring both of these 79's then to 7.9.21

7.9 in general is **out of support** since end of June **2022**. Consider plans for an 81 migration

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/licence-from-7-8-to-7-9/71839)._