How to upgrade Magento from 2.4.1 to 2.4.6

Question

I'm actually on Magento CE version 2.4.1

I need to update it to 2.4.6 (latest version)

I'm in live (I don't have a staging enviroment)

Is there someone who can guide me step to step in upgrading?

Really really thanks

Answer 1

Please Try below steps for update existing project First you need to check magento system requirements as per the version which link is given below and update first if required Like :- (php, composer, mysql, elastic search) version etc then start work on it.

You can upgrade magento version using command line follow below steps

1. First Enable maintenance mode using a command.
   php bin/magento maintenance:enable

2. Take backup of you composer.json file using command.
   cp composer.json composer.json.bk

3. Update composer.json file
   composer require-commerce magento/product-community-edition 2.4.6 --no-update

4. Composer update
   composer update

5. Please run below commands one by one.
   php bin/magento cache:clean
   rm -rf var/cache/*
   rm -rf var/page_cache/*
   rm -rf generated/code/*
   php bin/magento setup:upgrade
   php bin/magento setup:di:compile
   php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
   

6. Disable Maintainance Mode.
   php bin/magento maintenance:disable