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Please ensure you read these sections carefully before updating your Geo nodes! Not following version-specific update steps may result in unexpected downtime. Please [contact support](https://about.gitlab.com/support/#contact-support) if you have any specific questions.
These general update steps are not intended for [high-availability deployments](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/README.html#multi-node--ha-deployment), and will cause downtime. If you want to avoid downtime, consider using [zero downtime updates](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/README.html#zero-downtime-updates).
In GitLab 13.2 and later versions, promoting a secondary node to a primary while the secondary is paused fails. We are [investigating the issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/225173). Do not pause replication before promoting a secondary. If the node is paused, please resume before promoting.