The SAS documentation provides a "What's New" section. This will tell you about new functionality and features within the SAS software. You will see this in the doc for a Stable or Long-Term Support release when it comes out.
Being able to know what the future holds can be an advantage. For SAS Viya there is now a way to see upcoming critical changes. Having this information will allow for better planning when you think about your next SAS Viya release upgrade. This article will give you some more details on the provided information.
Upcoming Critical Changes
You can find the information about critical changes in the SAS® Viya® Platform Operations documentation.
Let's ask some questions about it:
- Since when is this information available?
Since Stable 2025.09
- When you read the Overview page, it says "This is a living document that will be updated immediately when plans change."?
In general, it is updated on a monthly basis. However, when sands shift significantly, there will be an immediate update.
As of writing this post, several critical changes are documented:
- 2025.12 (December 2025)
- Support for BIGINT for Certain Actions
- Updates to SAS Workload Orchestrator
- 2026.02 (February 2026)
- Files Service Customer Data Moving to Persistent Volumes
- Support for Kubernetes 1.34
- Device Management
Please consult the documentation for more detailed information on these critical changes.
Please note, the overview page states: "This is a living document that will be updated immediately when plans change." So check this documentation on a regular base, as there might be new changes being added or the date when a change happens is moved.
Get prepared and be ready for the future.
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