Release Policy for Automic SaaS

Automic SaaS and Automic Automation follow slightly different release cadences. As a result, certain features described in the product documentation may not yet be available in your environment yet. This discrepancy occurs only briefly.

This topic describes Broadcom's release policy for Automic SaaS:

Release Cadence

Automic SaaS has releases with the following periodicity:

Major versions are released every 21 to 24 months.
Within a major version, every three months either a minor version or a service pack is released. This guarantees that security vulnerability fixes are delivered on a quarterly basis.
Hotfixes are released when necessary.

Software Version Information

The numbers in the software version information identify the corresponding major/minor version, service pack and hotfix. For example:

24.0.1+hf2

24 indicates the major version
0 indicates the minor version
1 indicates the service pack
hf2 indicates the hotfix

Release Content

Major Versions

Major versions can include the following:

Major architectural changes
Significant new functionality
In certain situations, they can require a migration from the previous version.

Minor Versions

Minor versions are upgrades from the previous release on the same major version; this means that they are compatible with the previous release on the same major version. They can include the following:

New functionality without major backend changes

Service Packs

Service packs DO NOT include new functions. They can contain the following:

Bug fixes
Performance optimizations
Compatibility updates
Security updates

Hotfixes

Hotfixes remove malfunctions and defects.