Re: [go-cd] Where can I find the end-of-support documentation for GoCD releases?

[Satya Elipe]

Thank you Sriram and Chad.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 2:30 PM Chad Wilson  wrote:

> Other than Ram's (accurate) comments about non-use of semantic versioning,
> please see https://github.com/gocd/gocd/blob/master/SECURITY.md
>
> Upgrading from 22.3.0 through to 23.3.0 or 23.4.0 is likely to be very low
> risk/impact given the slow rate of change in GoCD over the last year.
>
> -Chad
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, 00:50 Satya Elipe,  wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> We are currently on GoCD version 22.3.0 and wonder when is the right time
>> to upgrade, so the documentation for end-of-support dates would be a help
>> here, many thanks.
>>
>> Regards
>> Satya
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Re: [go-cd] Where can I find the end-of-support documentation for GoCD releases?

[Chad Wilson]

Other than Ram's (accurate) comments about non-use of semantic versioning,
please see https://github.com/gocd/gocd/blob/master/SECURITY.md

Upgrading from 22.3.0 through to 23.3.0 or 23.4.0 is likely to be very low
risk/impact given the slow rate of change in GoCD over the last year.

-Chad

On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, 00:50 Satya Elipe,  wrote:

> Hi All
>
> We are currently on GoCD version 22.3.0 and wonder when is the right time
> to upgrade, so the documentation for end-of-support dates would be a help
> here, many thanks.
>
> Regards
> Satya
>
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Re: [go-cd] Where can I find the end-of-support documentation for GoCD releases?

[Sriram Narayanan]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 7:50 PM Satya Elipe  wrote:

> Hi All
>
> We are currently on GoCD version 22.3.0 and wonder when is the right time
> to upgrade, so the documentation for end-of-support dates would be a help
> here, many thanks.
>

Note: I am not a developer of GoCD, I'm just a consultant who helps
customers with GoCD.

GoCD does not follow semantic versioning. See:
https://github.com/gocd/gocd/issues/2509
Also, given the nature of fixes and changes - especially security fixes and
defects, there can be important changes due to which you would want to
upgrade.

In general the upgrades work between nearby releases, though there isn't
much of release testing across a year. You end up needing to upgrade
between an annual release at least (i.e. 16.x to 17.x, 17.x to 18.x, 18.x
to 19.x, 19.x to 20.5, 20.6 to 21.x, etc).

Currently, I'm helping a client upgrade from 16.x through 23.3.0 (likely to
be bumped to 23.4.0).

For my current client, we're moving them from self-managed PostgreSQL to
RDS, and moving the artifacts from on-disk to EFS. Our upgrades are via
Ansible playbooks. This gives us the ability to use a safe DB snapshot
(turn off GoCD to quiesce everything) for testing an upgrade. This would
give our client the ability to upgrade regularly within a few weeks of a
GoCD release.



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[go-cd] Where can I find the end-of-support documentation for GoCD releases?

[Satya Elipe]

Hi All

We are currently on GoCD version 22.3.0 and wonder when is the right time
to upgrade, so the documentation for end-of-support dates would be a help
here, many thanks.

Regards
Satya

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