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5.20.4 Upgrade Notes5.20.4 Upgrade Notes
Please follow the general Upgrading Pure documentation as well as the 5.20.4 (4.39.4) specific instructions below.
In order to keep your Pure installation secure and stable please make sure to keep the components involved in serving requests to Pure up-to-date. Please refer to the Supported platforms page for details on supported and recommended versions.
See the End of Support Announcements for Pure page for all end of support announcements.
We strongly recommend that you do not attempt to skip any more than three major releases when upgrading as to do so increases the risk of migration errors.
Content validation
You are generally encouraged to check all content in the re-validation workflow step prior to upgrade, as changes to the underlying data model may not be reflected in the re-validation overview screen (see example)
You are also encouraged to check if all content can validate prior to an upgrade of Pure. This check is done by running the Check content and files job and resolving any data validation issues that are flagged by the job
Tomcat Async stream processing
Tomcat async stream processing
As some customers have encountered problems with the asynchronous processing functionality that we use to stream binary data efficiently, we have introduced a start-up parameter option that will force Pure to serve files synchronously. If you have experienced widespread issues with file downloads, please add the following Tomcat JVM parameter:
-Dfile.servlet.disableASync=true |
Pure Portals
Backwards compatibility for Pure Portals
As previously communicated, we provide support for only the three most recent major releases of the Pure Portal. This means that as of the launch of Pure 5.20.0, versions 5.17.0 and earlier will not be officially supported by the Pure team.
If you continue to run an earlier version, new features and bug-fixes will not be available. We are also unable to make any commitment as to the performance and stability of your Portal. We therefore strongly recommend you regularly upgrade Pure to ensure Pure Portal compatibility.
NOTE: This issue is only relevant for customers who have the Pure Portal AND are responsible for managing their own upgrades.
Web services
Web services
With Pure 5.20.0, the 5.16 API web service endpoint will be removed. If you are currently using the 5.16 endpoint, you will need to update your queries to use one of the supported web service endpoints. For this 5.20.0 version these are:
- 5.17 API
- 5.18 API
- 5.19 API
- newly introduced 5.20 API
You can find more information about the web service delivery module in the Pure 5.9.0 release notes.
Supported platforms
End of support for PostgreSQL 9.5
From version 5.21 we will no longer support PostgreSQL 9.5 as it is no longer supported by the vendor.
End of support for SQL Server 2014
From version 5.21 we will no longer support SQL Server 2014 as it is no longer supported by the vendor.
Published at December 04, 2023