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File Extension of the Patch File

• The patch file has to be a zip file.
• Only files with the extension zip will be picked up by the patch-executor.
  • Applications to create a zip file are available for most Operating Systems
  • Files with file extension tgz and tar.gz are available only for linux Operating Systems and are rarely available on Microsoft Operating Systems

Naming of the Patch File

• We have only ONE patch file for all patches of per release. The naming structure of the patch file has to look like this:
  

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•                                      patch-<date-of-release>-<releaseVersion>.zip
  where the date has the format YYYYMMdd
• Example: patch-20200402-1.13.3.zip

Structure of the Patch File

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