SAS 9.4 M5 upgrade to SAS 9.4 M6

[RupaJ]

Hello,

Could one of you provide me with relevant links to upgrade the SAS software from 9.4 M5 to M6? Woudl be very helpful. We have a 4 tier topology (meta-midtier-compute)on Linux servers and clients on windows. 

Thanks

[JuanS_OCS]

SAS^® 9.4 Guide to Software Updates and Product Changes

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=whatsdiff&docsetTarget=titlepage.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&local... 

[JackHamilton]

Just out of curiosity, why are you upgrading to M6 instead of M7?

[RupaJ]

@JackHamilton M7 released only in Aug 2020. I am not sure if I should upgrade to that right away. 

[Nigel_Pain · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure why you wouldn't. New SAS releases are pretty reliable in my experience (at least, since V7). We're upgrading from M5 to M7 at the end of the month

[JackHamilton]

Except for M0 releases.  I doubt we'll ever install another M0 release of SAS unless all the people who were here for 9.3 M0 have retired.

[SASKiwi]

9.4 M7 is a very mature maintenance release of 9.4 which is now at least six years old. I don't think you should have any concerns about its reliability. Please bear in mind that M7 contains all accumulated maintenance and bug fixes since the original 9.4 release.

[RupaJ]

Thank you all for your responses.Yes, we are upgrading to M7 as well.