Looking for recommendations on upgrading from 4.1.4 to a newer version should we go to the newest or are there steps in between that we should take like go from 4 to 5 to 6 … or can we jump strait to 13. Please advise thnaks
You should be able to jump right to 13 in theory. That being said, you should take a look at the Backward Compatibility
section of all the release notes between your two version as there will probably be things to do after the automatic migrations, especially if you customized standard pages.