Hi all, I updated the MWL#55 (Windows installer) with the upgrade information. Now, people will be able to upgrade between prior MariaDB (or prior MySQL) versions using upgrade wizard, which is by default launched at the end of installation, if upgradable instances are found . Users will also be able to use Upgrade Wizard after the installation, at any the time convenient for them. Upgrade wizard will also be included into ZIP distribution. Besides GUI Wizard, there is a command line utility mysql_upgrade_service.exe to perform all operations necessary to upgrade an existing database instance registered as service (in fact GUI wizard uses this mysql_upgrade_service.exe as "backend"). Wizard is an MFC application. I'm sorry for that, but my Windows C/C++ GUI programming experience is not only rusty (prior to this WL last time I used it was more than a decade ago), it is also restricted to MFC only. Being MFC application, it will require at least VS Professional to build. There is no MFC in free Visual Studio Express edition, nor in free Windows SDK. Build and packaging process will handle missing MFC gracefully (build won't try to compile upgrade wizard, package won't include it , and installer won't start it at the end of installation). The repository that includes the final windows installer is lp:~maria-captains/maria/5.2-windows-packaging-upgrade Building installer is described in http://askmonty.org/worklog/Server-Sprint/?tid=55 (Section "Building installer", at the very start of the WL). Monty or Sergei (or volunteers if any): Can you please have a look the above repo and do a review . I tried to split the big patch into parts, but I did not find the result to be too satisfactory Philip: would you be able to test the upgrade wizard? You need a service running under some older mysqld.exe binary (e.g. install MySQL 5.1), you'll should get upgrade wizard launched at the end of install. You should also get Wizard at the end of installation any time you have an older version of Maria running as service. Thanks and best regards, Wlad