Which version are you running today?

Hopefully, most of you reading this book are already running IBM Lotus Quickr and not still running the older IBM Lotus QuickPlace versions. With this in mind, we should start with the most recent versions of IBM Lotus Quickr and work our way back to IBM Lotus QuickPlace.

The following diagram represents the paths for upgrading:

Version 8.1 or 8.2

This following line is from the preliminary Quickr 8.5 documentation:

Customers currently running the English language version of QuickPlace 7.0 or an earlier release must upgrade to Lotus Quickr 8.0, or later, before installing Quickr 8.5.

If you are on version 8.2 or 8.1 of IBM Lotus Quickr, you can perform an in-place upgrade to 8.5, providing you first upgrade Lotus Domino to 8.5. This should mean that you could shut Domino down, run the Quickr 8.5 installation files and then start your server. This is of course, not entirely true, as there are many more steps to be taken.