# Just want to know that Is the Jenkins is free or we need to pay for it in future?

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/just-want-to-know-that-is-the-jenkins-is-free-or-we-need-to-pay-for-it-in-future/11330>\
**Category:** Using Jenkins\
**Created:** [December 18, 2023, 5:58am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/just-want-to-know-that-is-the-jenkins-is-free-or-we-need-to-pay-for-it-in-future/11330 "2023-12-18T05:58:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vinith](https://community.jenkins.io/u/vinith)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 5:58am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/just-want-to-know-that-is-the-jenkins-is-free-or-we-need-to-pay-for-it-in-future/11330/1 "2023-12-18T05:58:45Z")

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Is it okay to upgrade to the latest version of jenkins?

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**Author:** ![poddingue](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/poddingue/32/985_2.png) [@poddingue](https://community.jenkins.io/u/poddingue)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 10:18am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/just-want-to-know-that-is-the-jenkins-is-free-or-we-need-to-pay-for-it-in-future/11330/2 "2023-12-19T10:18:18Z")

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Hello @vinith and welcome to this community. 👋

What version of Jenkins are you currently using?  
What do you call “latest”?  
You could have a look at [Jenkins LTS Upgrade Guide](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/upgrade-guide/).

As for the question about the licence, Jenkins is free and will stay that way.  
You could have a look at the [Project Governance Document](https://www.jenkins.io/project/governance/) to know more.  
There is a commercial product sold by a vendor on top of Jenkins, but it’s not Jenkins, it’s some kind of “Enterprise Jenkins”.

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**Author:** ![vinith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vinith](https://community.jenkins.io/u/vinith)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/just-want-to-know-that-is-the-jenkins-is-free-or-we-need-to-pay-for-it-in-future/11330/3 "2024-01-09T00:48:39Z")

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Hello,  
Currently we are using Jenkins 2.361.2 . what I got to know is if we upgrade to latest version of Jenkins the plugins are getting deprecated and there will be issues with the deployments. Is that right or we can upgrade to latest version of Jenkins?

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**Author:** ![vinith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vinith](https://community.jenkins.io/u/vinith)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/just-want-to-know-that-is-the-jenkins-is-free-or-we-need-to-pay-for-it-in-future/11330/4 "2024-01-09T00:49:50Z")

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Enterprise Jenkins means is it from Cloudbees?