Upgrading Magento
From time to time, as Magento improves its platform features, or to address bugs and security issues, you will receive a notice that your system needs to be upgraded. With Magento 2, this upgrade process is made infinitely easier and better than in Magento 1.x.
Note
If you are versioning your Magento installation, you should not upgrade your production installation using our instructions here. Rather, upgrade your development environment, test, and then promote your code to your production server.
In order to keep your Magento installation upgraded, you must take certain steps:
Obtain Magento Marketplace keys
Run the System Upgrade routine in your Magento 2 backend
Obtaining Magento Marketplace keys
In order for your store to communicate to Magento for upgrade verifications, you or a developer has to obtain developer keys. While this suggests that keys are only for developers, anyone can create an account at Magento and obtain keys.
If you don't already have an account at Magento...
