Upgrade cautions

This page lists important information to know about when upgrading Bolt to versions with breaking changes. For an exhaustive list of changes, see the Release notes.

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Upgrading to Bolt 5.0.0

Bolt is now in a protected repository

To download and install Bolt 5.0.0, which is stored in a protected repository, you must download authenticated packages using either Puppet Core or Puppet Enterprise (PE) credentials.

Puppet Core: The username is the string literal forge-key and the password is the Puppet Core Forge API key associated with your Puppet Core free or paid user account. For more information about the API key, see Purchasing Puppet Core and Accessing Puppet Core for limited use for testing or development.
PE: The username is the string literal license-id and the password is your PE License ID. You can find your PE License ID in your PE license file or in the PE console by clicking License in the navigation pane.

Upgrading to Bolt 3.0

If you need to upgrade from a version earlier than Bolt 3.0 to the current version of Bolt, read the documentation on Upgrading to Bolt 3.0 for important upgrade information.