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

[Sriram Narayanan]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 7:50 PM Satya Elipe <satya...@gmail.com> 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.

 

Regards

Satya

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[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

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[Satya Elipe]

Thank you Sriram and Chad.

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