Summary
This article will help you to adopt the best practices in the area of upgrading your server and terminal network with minimum down time and the other risks that might be involved.
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Our product comes with major releases and minor releases. Minor releases are also called patch releases.
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Naming convention: yyyymmdd.pp example 20231012.20. Where 20231012 is a major version and .20 is a patch level. |
Major releases contain predominantly new functionality, database, architectural, and security improvements and may contain changes that introduce bugs.
Minor releases contain just bug fixes and are designed to be safe and easy for the operators to install. Patch releases are numbered in incremental order.
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GENERAL BYTES typically publishes, on average, a new major release every month. Between these major releases, GB will publish patches whenever bugs are discovered. These are called minor, point, or patch releases.
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Stay on a supported version
GENERAL BYTES maintains only last two major releases actively maintains the current release and previous release, meaning that only last these latest two major releases ever receive patch releases. Unsupported major releases are The previous major release is then marked as EOL(End Of Life) on the patch releases page and becomes unsupported.
It is highly recommended to always have your production running on supported release. Risks involving not staying on supported version include but are not limited to sudden downtime due to 3rd party wallet provider API change or 0-day vulnerability discovery. GENERAL BYTES is able to provide fix for such situations via new patch release but only on supported releases.
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