topic Re: SAS VIYA 4 : Any experience on how to move from Stable version to LTS version? in Administration and Deployment

SAS VIYA 4 : Any experience on how to move from Stable version to LTS version?

MO91 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:25:40 GMT

Hello fellow SAS-Admins,

my company is planning to move from SAS VIYA 4 Stable Release 2025.03 to LTS Release 2025.03.

Since I coudn't find any helpful information about constraints and/or conditions that must be met etc. I was wondering if there are any experiences in moving from Stable to LTS.

I'm grateful for any valid information.

Thanks

Re: SAS VIYA 4 : Any experience on how to move from Stable version to LTS version?

gwootton — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:55:12 GMT

LTS 2025.03 is not yet available, but generally speaking you would apply it as a patch update if you were within the same version (e.g. 2025.03 > LTS 2025.03).

Documentation on switching cadences can be found here:
Update Paths When Switching Cadences
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_063/itopsup/p1lam22gz8zj8gn1b51yczorenun.htm#p1hagvntwc2c57n1l459yj43xnqy

The note for the entry for stable to LTS of the same version reads (in this case the example is moving from Stable 2024.09 to LTS 2024.09):

1 The update process is to apply a patch update to 2024.09 using the deployment assets for LTS 2024.09.

Documentation on applying a patch update can be found here:

Apply a Patch Update:
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_063/k8sag/p0954mgxmsddrmn1klrphsbnqasm.htm

Re: SAS VIYA 4 : Any experience on how to move from Stable version to LTS version?

MO91 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:29:29 GMT

@gwootton Great, that's exactly the information that what I was looking for. Thank you!