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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Oct 1, 2024 |
Apr 30, 2025 |
Business value
With extended periods for major releases and optional minor updates, administrators get more flexibility to update environments in a way that suits their needs. Businesses get more time to prepare for updates and plan them for less busy periods.
Feature details
Previously, the update policies for major and minor updates were relatively rigid. This release introduces the following changes that give you more flexibility:
Five-month update periods for major updates: This change gives you more time for thorough testing and preparation before implementing the update. Resellers can spread the workload of updating all customer environments over the entire calendar year to avoid peak periods for major updates. Developers have more time to make sure all apps work with the update. Customers with specific testing and preparation requirements have more time to meet those requirements.
Optional minor updates: This change lets administrators choose when to implement minor updates. Administrators can choose whether to implement minor updates. The default behavior of environments receiving updates every month doesn't change. Instead, administrators can pick any later version as the target version to schedule an update for. This choice skips intermediate versions.
As part of these changes, the grace period after the update period for the next major update is one month. As before, the update runs and you can't postpone it to a later date during this grace period. The update is forced by uninstalling incompatible extensions when the grace period ends.
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Additional resources
Update period (docs)