Upgrade the Sitecore Command Line Interface to version 4

Version: 10.1

Sitecore Command Line Interface (CLI) is a tool that you install in PowerShell.

Note

To install a new CLI installation, see Install Sitecore Command Line Interface.

To upgrade an existing CLI installation from version 3.0.0 to version 4.0.0:

Update the Sitecore Management Services module.
Update the CLI version to version 4.0.0:
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```
dotnet tool update sitecore.cli --version 4.0.0
```
Update the publishing and serialization plugins:

Note

If you update to version 4.1.0, you can use the new CLI command dotnet sitecore plugin init to update default plugins to version 4.1.0.
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```
dotnet sitecore plugin add -n Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Serialization --version 4.0.0
dotnet sitecore plugin add -n Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Publishing --version 4.0.0
```
If you need to install the indexing plugin, then run the following command:
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```
dotnet sitecore plugin add -n Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Indexing --version 4.0.0
```
If you need to install the Items as Resources plugin, then run the following command:
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```
dotnet sitecore plugin add -n Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.ResourcePackage --version 4.0.0
```
Check the Sitecore CLI version using the following command:
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```
dotnet sitecore --version
```
If your CLI is updated successfully, it returns 4.0.0.
To update the JSON schema, run the following command in your project folder:
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```
dotnet sitecore init
```

Check the installed plugins using the following command:

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dotnet sitecore plugin list

If your CLI plugins are updated successfully, it returns the following message:

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Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Indexing v.4.0.0
Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Publishing v.4.0.0
Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.ResourcePackage v.4.0.0
Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Serialization v.4.0.0

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