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+# Upgrading from v12 to v13.0
+
+!!! warning "THIS RECIPE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS"
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+The steps listed in this article require an existing local installation of InvenioRDM v12.
+
+!!! warning "Backup"
+
+    Always backup your database and files before you try to perform an upgrade.
+
+!!! info "Older Versions"
+
+    In case you have an InvenioRDM installation older than v12, you can gradually upgrade
+    to v12 and afterwards continue from here.
+
+## Upgrade Steps
+
+Make sure you have the latest `invenio-cli` installed. For InvenioRDM v13, it
+should be v1.5.0+
+
+```bash
+$ invenio-cli --version
+invenio-cli, version 1.5.0
+```
+
+!!! info "Virtual environments"
+
+    In case you are not inside a virtual environment, make sure that you prefix each `invenio`
+    command with `pipenv run`.
+
+**Local development**
+
+Changing the Python version in your development environment highly
+depends on your setup, so we won't cover it here.
+One way would be to use [PyEnv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv).
+
+!!! warning "Risk of losing data"
+
+    Your virtual environment folder a.k.a., `venv` folder, may contain uploaded files. If you kept the default
+    location, it is in `<venv folder>/var/instance/data`. If you need to keep those files,
+    make sure you copy them over to the new `venv` folder in the same location.
+    The command `invenio files location list` shows the file upload location.
+
+If you upgraded your python version, you should recreate your virtual environment before
+running `invenio-cli` or `pipenv` commands below.
+
+
+### Upgrade InvenioRDM
+
+Python 3.9 or 3.11 or 3.12 is required to run InvenioRDM v12.
+
+There are two options to upgrade your system:
+
+#### Upgrade option 1: In-place
+
+This approach upgrades the dependencies in place. Your virtual environment for the
+v11 version will be gone afterwards.
+
+```bash
+cd <my-site>
+
+# Upgrade to InvenioRDM v12
+invenio-cli packages update 13.0.0
+
+# Re-build assets
+invenio-cli assets build
+```
+
+#### Upgrade option 2: New virtual environment
+
+This approach will create a new virtual environment and leaves the v11 one as-is.
+If you are using a docker image on your production instance this will be the
+option you choose.
+
+##### Step 1
+- create a new virtual environment
+- activate your new virtual environment
+- install `invenio-cli` by `pip install invenio-cli`
+
+##### Step 2
+Update the file `<my-site>/Pipfile`.
+
+```diff
+[packages]
+---invenio-app-rdm = {extras = [...], version = "~=12.0.0"}
++++invenio-app-rdm = {extras = [...], version = "~=13.0.0"}
+```
+
+##### Step 3
+Update the `Pipfile.lock` file:
+
+```bash
+invenio-cli packages lock
+```
+
+##### Step 4
+Install InvenioRDM v13:
+
+```bash
+invenio-cli install
+```
+
+### Database migration
+
+Execute the database migration:
+
+```bash
+invenio alembic upgrade
+```
+
+### Data migration
+
+
+Execute the data migration:
+
+### TODO
+
+
+### Rebuild search indices
+
+```bash
+invenio index destroy --yes-i-know
+invenio index init
+invenio rdm rebuild-all-indices
+```
+
+From v12 onwards, record statistics will be stored in search indices rather than the
+database. These indices are created through some *index templates* machinery
+rather than having indices registered directly in `Invenio-Search`. As such, the
+search indices for statistics are not affected by `invenio index destroy
+--yes-i-know` and are totally functional after the rebuild step.
+
+### New roles
+
+### TODO
+
+### New configuration variables
+
+```bash
+from invenio_app_rdm import __version__
+ADMINISTRATION_DISPLAY_VERSIONS = [
+    ("invenio-app-rdm", f"v{__version__}"),
+    ("{{ cookiecutter.project_shortname }}", "v1.0.0"),
+]
+```
+
+## Big Changes
+
+- feature: invenio jobs module, periodic tasks administration panel
+- feature: invenio vocabularies entries deprecation
+- improvement: search mappings and analyzers to improve performance
+
+### TODO
+
+## OPEN PROBLEMS
+
+
+### TODO
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+# InvenioRDM v13.0
+
+Draft