Scope
- Ongoing development means that Feature Life Cycle Management includes that released features may eventually be replaced by alternative new functions - , i.e. they become deprecated. are subject to a Deprecation Cycle:
- the Deprecation Cycle is performed for features that previously have been subject to a Development Cycle.
- This article describes our describes
- the policy for handling
- of deprecation and minimizing the
Lifecycle
Deprecated features will pass through three states:
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- impact on users.
- the mapping to the respective status in the Change Management System.
- Further resources for life cycle management
- for the overall Product Life Cycle see Release Policy - Product Life Cycle Management
- for information about release availability and maintenance see Release Policy - Platform availability and support
Life Cycle
Deprecated Features will pass through the following status:
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- Deprecation announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- Deprecated features will continue to be supported after the deprecation announcement , for the lifetime of the current release.
- The resolution is set to
deprecated
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- End of support announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- With the following current release a previously deprecated feature becomes an unsupported feature, i.e. should problems occur then they will not be fixed.
- The functionality is still usable.
- The resolution is set to
deprecated
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- Feature removal announcements will be included with each release if applicable.Unsupported features may be completely removed from future releases
- Prevously unsupported features are removed from the current release.
- The resolution is set to
deprecated
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Example
- Lifecycle
- A feature is announced as being deprecated with release 1.8:
- This feature will still be included in all maintenance releases1.8.1, 1.8.2 etc.
- This feature will then be announced as being unsupported from release 1.9:
- This feature will still be included in all maintenance releases1releases 1.9.1, 1.9.2 etc.
- Support will not be provided if an unsupported feature should break in a release 1.9 or later
- This feature may be removed in a subsequent release such as 1.10 or later.
- A feature is announced as being deprecated with release 1.8:
- Please note:
- The period between releases will usually be around three months.
- This means that you will have about six months time to modify your configuration and to upgrade to replacement features.
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