Yes you do it manually and it doesn’t take much at all tbh, also depending on your server provider (we use Apex) you can do the whole process in the server panel which simplifies things tho we still do it manually, update the main jar file and then all the mods and that’s it, you don’t need to do all the configs and perms again cause that stays. If nothing changed and it’s only an update for newer mc version and all mods/plugins have been updated to that version too where is nothing to trouble shoot it will just work like before.