Upgrade to Bloomreach Experience Manager 15

This section contains documentation to guide you in upgrading your project from Bloomreach Experience Manager 14 to Bloomreach Experience Manager 15.

Bloomreach Experience Manager applies Semantic Versioning for its releases, which implies that backwards incompatible changes can be made between major versions. Such changes force you to apply a number of changes to your Bloomreach Experience Manager project, which are described in this section of the documentation.

For all Bloomreach Experience Manager major upgrades, you must first read the general introduction to Bloomreach Experience Manager upgrades, and follow the described general upgrade process precisely. Please do not try to skip or shortcut any of these steps!

Next, please study the page listing the relevant changes between version 14 and 15, providing information on the rationale behind the changes. We expect that understanding this background will help you comprehend and apply the necessary changes successfully. Then, you should be ready to actually start upgrading your project, following the described steps needed for upgrading to v15.

Also note that the step Prepare Bloomreach Experience Manager v14 Project for Upgrade to v15, can (and best should) be done as prerequisite before following the general instructions and process.