In April 2020, IBM announced end of support for UrbanCode Deploy 6.2.x versions. Support for 6.2.x will end on 30th April 2021. All versions older than 6.2.0 are already out of support and have been for more than 18 months.
Have you begun planning for your upgrade to V7.1.x ?
Keeping your UCD server up-to-date is important to get the most out of your investment, to improve the reliability and capability to deploy mission-critical applications in your organization accurately and quickly, in an ever faster changing world.
Staying on an older version means you are missing out on fixes, security patches and a ton of cool new features that can help increase the value of your investment, speed your time to market and improve the resilience of your DevOps process. If you are on the most recent v6.x release, you are still missing out on all these new features.
Some of the many improvements after 6.2.x
- Approval notification updates and deployment warnings.
- Agent Relay improvements
- User interface updates
- Environment property process updates
- Generic Process Request History
- Security improvements
- Command line interface (CLI) improvements
- Software updates for Tomcat
- Deployment Triggers
- External approvals process
- Deployment Wizard
- Server management enhancement
- Improved resource tree
- User experience improvements
- Enhancements for deploying to IBM z, like support for Artifactory, Nexus and ability to deploy only the delta
- UrbanCode Deploy server, agent and relay available as containers and certified to run on OpenShift
- New permission to assign users for setting version status
- Plug-in upgrade improvements
- User authentication token restrictions
- Maintenance Mode
- Distributed Front End
- Agent Logs available in the UI
- Agent Pool Algorithm
- Safe Edit for processes
- Java 11 support
- Mixed Mode Licensing
- New Server/Agent Communication
- CyberArk Support
The product release notes indicate which UCD release these features appeared in first: https://ibm.biz/Bdqt9a
Check the UrbanCode Deploy Knowledge Center to learn more about these features: https://ibm.biz/Bdqt9f
Plan Your Upgrade
When you plan the upgrade of a mission-critical tool like UrbanCode Deploy it may be difficult to find a time slot that doesn’t negatively impact business as usual activities. Good planning will minimize any potential negative impact on the organization.
If you would like assistance in the planning and execution of a UCD Server upgrade, contact your local IBM Services seller who will be able to put you in contact with a UCD subject matter expert that can help you go through the process of successfully upgrading your UCD server.
If you wish to do look into upgrading on your own, open a proactive support case with IBM. The UCD support team can help you with your own planning. https://ibm.biz/BdYa9V
Here is the latest upgrade documentation as well
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/devops-deploy/8.0.1?topic=upgrading-migrating
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