Easy Way to upgrade your PDI to Vancouver release version

[John Zhang1]

Upgrading and patching your company instance requires planning, testing, and validation. you need to create upgrade plans, and test your upgrade on non-production instances before upgrading your production instance. For Washington Release, please see How to upgrade your PDI to Washington DC.

However for your Personal Development Instance (PDI) you can easily follow the following steps:

1. Login in developer.servicenow.com site
2. Click down allow near your name on top right 
3. My instance information menu is displayed
4. Click "Upgrade Instance" and then a list of instance versions are displayed
5. Select "Vancouver" and then click "Upgrade Instance" button
6. Upgrade is in Progress

The upgrade will take around 2-3 hours to be completed.  You shall received the confirmation email -

Reference 

How to upgrade your PDI to Washington DC

[Community Alums]

Will upgrading my PDI from San Diego to Tokyo allow me to utilize AI Search in my pdi?

[ElinaG]

Is there a way to upgrade from Washington to Vancouver? I am not seeing that option. 

[Simon Hendery]

Hi @ElinaG - Do you mean upgrade from Washington to Xanadu? If so, follow the same process as outlined above.

[ElinaG]

Hello @Simon Hendery! Thank you for your response. I need to get access to the Vancouver developer instance. Is there a way to do so?

[Simon Hendery]

Hi @ElinaG - I haven't checked this, but I'm pretty sure that currently, when you request a PDI, you have the option of choosing Vancouver, Washington DC, or Xanadu. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!)

If that's the case. You should be able to release your current instance and then request a new Vancouver version.