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 9.4M8 shipped in January 2023. This is a maintenance release
that addresses reported issues in the software. The documentation
includes minor updates and editorial corrections.
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.
-
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.
-
Based on your SAS release, review the information to understand
what changes were made in the maintenance release.
-
Issues Addressed in SAS 9.4 (TS1M8)
The Issues Addressed Web site for a SAS maintenance release is
compiled by SAS Technical Support and lists the SAS Notes that
were addressed in a specific maintenance release.
-
What's New in SAS 9.4
The What's New document provides a high-level overview of the
new features and enhancements for each product or solution
updated in the SAS 9.4 era. This document links to the "What's
New" topics in the product documentation for more specific
details about each new feature and enhancement.
-
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 or physical 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. Use the
self-service application for maintenance
to identify orders at your site for which maintenance is available. A
SAS Installation Representative from your site can request
maintenance.
If you have not yet deployed SAS 9.4, then contact your SAS account
executive. If you need help identifying your account executive and
would like to start the request process now, call SAS at
1-800-727-0025, menu option 2. All of the latest maintenance updates
are included with an initial delivery of SAS 9.4.
Maintenance Release Announcement for SAS 9.3
Note: If your site is applying a maintenance release to a SAS
9.2 deployment, see the Maintenance Release Announcement for SAS
9.2.
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.
The second maintenance release for SAS 9.3 (TS1M2) shipped in August
2012. This maintenance release is to address some issues in SAS 9.3
and to support future releases of SAS products.
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.
-
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.
-
Based on your SAS release, review the information to understand
what changes were made in the maintenance release.
-
Issues Addressed in SAS 9.3 (TS1M2)
The Issues Addressed Web site for a SAS maintenance release is
compiled by SAS Technical Support and lists the SAS Notes that
were addressed in a specific maintenance release.
-
What's New in SAS 9.3 and SAS Analytical Products 12.1
[PDF]
The What's New document combines the What's New topics for
each product that was updated in SAS 9.3 or in a subsequent
maintenance release. In general, the What's New topic for each
product contains all of the features and enhancements for SAS
9.3. Features and enhancements that were part of a maintenance
release are labeled.
-
Deprecated Functionality
in the SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates
Before applying a maintenance release, determine whether any
products at your site have been deprecated. For example, SAS
Web OLAP Viewer for Java will have no new releases. It has
been replaced by functionality that is available in SAS Web
Report Studio 4.3.
-
Review the
SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates
[PDF] 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 or physical media.
You must have installed SAS 9.3 in order to apply a maintenance
release to SAS 9.3. You can add maintenance updates to an existing SAS
software depot, or you can create a new depot with a full software
release. Use the
self-service application for maintenance
to identify orders at your site for which maintenance is available. A
SAS Installation Representative from your site can request
maintenance.
If you have not yet deployed SAS 9.3, then contact your SAS account
executive. If you need help identifying your account executive and
would like to start the request process now, call SAS at
1-800-727-0025, menu option 2. All of the latest maintenance updates
are included with an initial delivery of SAS 9.3.
Maintenance Release Announcement for SAS 9.2
Overview
The third maintenance release for SAS 9.2 shipped in May 2010. All
of the features and enhancements from previous maintenance releases
for SAS 9.2 and several product hot fixes are included in this
latest update. Highlights from the third maintenance release include
the ability to change the host names (including network domains) or
server machines in your deployment, performance improvements in
SAS/ACCESS software, the availability of SAS Scoring Accelerator for
Netezza and the SAS/GRAPH ODS Graphics Designer.
In addition, new releases of SAS/ETS, SAS/OR, and SAS/STAT are
shipping in conjunction with the third maintenance release for SAS
9.2. When you apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, these
products are updated to SAS/ETS 9.22, SAS/OR 9.22, and SAS/STAT
9.22. For more information, see
SAS 9.22 Analytical Products.
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.
-
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.
-
Review the following information to understand what changes were
made in the maintenance release.
-
Issues Addressed
The Issues Addressed Web site for SAS 9.2 maintenance releases
is compiled by SAS Technical Support and lists the SAS Notes
that were addressed in the third maintenance release for SAS
9.2.
-
What's New in SAS 9.2
The What's New document combines the What's New topics for
each product that was updated in SAS 9.2 or that was in a
maintenance release after SAS 9.2. In general, the What's New
topic for each product contains all of the features and
enhancements in the SAS 9.2 release. Features and enhancements
that were part of a maintenance release are labeled.
-
Future Plans to Deprecate Functionality
in
Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades in
SAS 9.2
Before applying a maintenance release, determine whether any
products at your site have been deprecated. For example, SAS
Web OLAP Viewer for Java will have no new releases. It has
been replaced by functionality that is available in SAS Web
Report Studio 4.3. To help you plan for future upgrades, this
document also notes plans to deprecate or significantly change
functionality. For example, SAS Visual Data Explorer is
deprecated in SAS 9.3.
-
Review the
Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades in SAS
9.2
[PDF] documentation and determine what preparation, installation, and
configuration steps need to be completed to apply the third
maintenance release for SAS 9.2 at your site.
Note: Customers are encouraged to apply the third
maintenance release for SAS 9.2 at their site. For more
information, see "Request a Maintenance Release." If your
Software Order E-mail lists SAS 9.2 TS2M3 in the
Product field, then you have received the third
maintenance release.
However, if you requested a maintenance release before the third
maintenance release for SAS 9.2 shipped, then your site might be
applying the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2. The
Technical Support Number for this release is TS2M2. To apply the
second maintenance release at your site, see
Maintenance Planning for SAS 9.2 (TS2M2) [PDF].