Upgrading your software and keeping it up-to-date is an important part of the software lifecycle. Yet, we see many users using very old versions of Strimzi and Apache Kafka. And often - according to their own words - they use them to run a “critical infrastructure”. This talk will try to explain why staying up to date is important for security reasons but also for example to get help. It will also show that staying up to date is not as hard as many users think by going through the various ways of upgrading Strimzi and demoing some of them.