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Maintenance Release Announcement

Maintenance Release Announcement for SAS 9.4

Overview

A maintenance release is a collection of updates to SAS products or components that corrects customer-reported issues and adapts the product to a changed environment. A maintenance release can also include new software functionality.

SAS 9.4M9 (TS1M9) shipped in June 2025. This is a maintenance release that addresses reported issues in the software and adds some new features. The documentation includes new content, minor updates, and editorial corrections.

SAS strongly recommends that you verify the latest SAS/ACCESS data source requirements and the lists of operating systems that are supported. In addition, you should check the relevant Configuration Guides for changes that were introduced with your maintenance release. These documents are available here: SAS 9.4 Foundation System Requirements and Configuration Guides.

Assess Your Current SAS Deployment

Before you apply any maintenance release, complete these steps to assess your current SAS deployment, and review the maintenance documentation to determine how this upgrade impacts your site.

1. Determine what product releases are currently installed at your site. You can obtain this information by running the ViewRegistry tool. For more information, see SAS Note 35968.
2. Based on your SAS release, review the information to understand what changes were made in the maintenance release. The What's New in SAS 9.4 document provides a high-level overview of the new features and enhancements for products and solutions that run on SAS 9.4. This document also provides links to the "What's New" topics in the product documentation for details about each new feature and enhancement.
3. Review the SAS 9.4 Guide to Software Updates to determine what preparation, installation, and configuration steps need to be completed to apply the maintenance release at your site.

Request a Maintenance Release

Maintenance releases are available via electronic media. You must have installed SAS 9.4 in order to apply a maintenance release to SAS 9.4. You can add maintenance updates to an existing SAS software depot, or you can create a new depot with a full software release. Your designated on-site SAS support personnel can request the maintenance release by contacting Licensing Operations: Contact Licensing Support

If you have not yet deployed SAS 9.4, contact your SAS account executive. If you need help identifying your account executive or designated on-site SAS support personnel, log in to your SAS account at https://my.sas.com and click Support Personnel. All the latest maintenance updates are included with an initial delivery of SAS 9.4.