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One way that appears to allow the upgrade to be done without the menu option is to browse directly to: http://example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_joomlaupdate substituting of course the example.com part of the URL for your site URL.

One way that appears to allow the upgrade to be done without the menu option is to browse directly to URL /administrator/index.php?option=com_joomlaupdate within your site. If I understand correctly, this allows minor version updates, and for version 2.5.14 will allow updating to version 2.5.28 (at the current point in time).

I now also see that a major version update is available to me at the site URL /administrator/index.php?option=com_cmsupdate

This is on my Components menu as option "Akeeba CMS Update" and on my Control Panel as button "Joomla 3.5.1 is available".

Possibly these options require non-standard extension(s) though, as I appear to have a Component called "Cmsupdate" by author Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos and a Plugin called "Quick Icon - Akeeba CMS Update notification for Joomla! updates" by author "Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos / AkeebaBackup.com".

One way that appears to allow the upgrade to be done without the menu option is to browse directly to: http://example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_cmsupdate substituting of course the example.com part of the URL for your site URL.

One way that appears to allow the upgrade to be done without the menu option is to browse directly to: http://example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_joomlaupdate substituting of course the example.com part of the URL for your site URL.

One way that appears to allow the upgrade to be done without the menu option is to browse directly to: http://example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_joomlaupdate substituting of course the example.com part of the URL for your site URL.

One way that appears to allow the upgrade to be done without the menu option is to browse directly to: http://example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_cmsupdate substituting of course the example.com part of the URL for your site URL.