<li>Stop Openfire (when using a service, stop it manually).</li>
<li>Backup the Openfire installation directory. The default is _C:\Program Files\Openfire_</li>
<li>Backup the Openfire database. Note that the embedded database is backed up in step 2.</li>
<li>Run the installer for the new version of Openfire (note that the installer MUST point to the base installation directory of the previous version).</li>
<li>Complete the installer process.</li>
<li>Start Openfire.</li>
<li>Start Openfire (when using a service, start it manually).</li>
</ol>
<h3>RPM - RedHat based unix systems (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, etc)</h3>