Before performing any updates/upgrades
- Carefully read other release notes that may apply to your planned update/upgrade action.
- Release information for earlier releases:
- Release notes 8.0
- Release notes 7.8
- Release notes 7.7
- Release notes 7.6
- See Section – Updates for general information about the available update processes.
- You may also check Techzone for available product updates and the List of known issues.
Minor release updates:
Updates from any predecessor minor release (X.Y.* and X.Y-1.*) to the latest follow-up minor release (X.Y+1.*) are possible.
Major release updates:
Updates from any predecessor major release (X.Y.*) are only supported to the follow-up major release version (X+1.Y and X+1.Y.*).
Note that in some cases, updates from lower release numbers to higher release numbers may be restricted to specific release versions – therefore, always check the release information of the target release, you want to update to.