Upgrade

To benefit from Redpanda's new features and enhancements, upgrade to the latest version.

To benefit from Redpanda's new features and enhancements, upgrade to the latest version.

Upgrading the Redpanda Operator ensures your deployment benefits from the latest features, fixes, and improvements.

A compatibility matrix for versions of Redpanda, Redpanda Helm chart, and Redpanda Operator.

Migrate Redpanda brokers to a new Kubernetes node pool using the NodePool CRD for automated blue/green operations with zero downtime.

Manually migrate your Redpanda cluster to a new Kubernetes node pool by decommissioning brokers one at a time.

See a list of deprecated features in Redpanda releases and plan necessary upgrades or modifications.

Information about breaking schema changes for Iceberg topics in Redpanda v25.3, and actions to take when upgrading.