Cumulative Updates & Hotfixes

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Cumulative Updates & Hotfixes

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736172 More actions · Answer 1

I'll say this is one reason I think we need those yearly service packs. A more stable, tested version of patches that gets us to a level that can be used for applying future updates.

Note the CUs are cumulative, meaning that if you apply CU 8, the fixes from previous ones are a part of the codebase, so you need to be sure that you are testing for all fixes since the last service pack.

mbricker-600840 SSCertifiable Points: 5468 More actions · Answer 2

We are pretty much the same. We will only look at a CU if it fixes a specific issue we are having. We also lag on SPs until we see some feedback in the forums.

Mike

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004318 More actions · Answer 3

Steve Jones - Editor (8/23/2010)
I'll say this is one reason I think we need those yearly service packs. A more stable, tested version of patches that gets us to a level that can be used for applying future updates.

I absolutely agree with that. If they'd get it down to a particular month of each year, then some reasonable FTE and /or PTE scheduling could be planned for on the regression testing.

--Jeff Moden

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