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title: Upgrade to Xperience by Kentico - development and execution
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Getting ready to execute an upgrade from **Kentico Xperience 13 (KX13)** to **Xperience by Kentico (XbyK)**? This learning path covers the whole technical implementation, from planning the upgrade through a step-by-step walkthrough to advanced scenarios like content model restructuring and widget migration.

## You'll learn how to...

- Plan your upgrade approach and assess what each feature will take to migrate
- Upgrade a sample project hands-on, from environment setup to a migrated page in XbyK
- Customize the Kentico Migration Tool for remodeled page types and page hierarchies in the Content hub
- Migrate widgets, their properties, and the custom code around them to XbyK's architecture

Start with the overview module, which walks through the four phases of an upgrade to Xperience by Kentico:

- **Plan your approach** – Review the changes from KX13 and decide how to approach the upgrade.
- **Set up your environment** – Prepare the source and target projects and configure the migration tooling.
- **Migrate your data** – Move your data and content, gradually addressing more complex migration scenarios.
- **Adjust your code** – Update custom code, components, and integrations for Xperience by Kentico.

Then continue with the walkthrough and dive into the advanced scenarios.