Continuous Delivery
Upgrade Paths
Continuous Delivery
Contents
Contents
DOCUMENT CHANGE HISTORY ......................................................................................................................... 3
OVERVIEW OF CONTINUOUS DELIVERY ............................................................................................................ 4
UPGRADE PATHS .............................................................................................................................................. 4
ABOUT D2L ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
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Document Change History
Document Change History
This version of the document replaces all previous versions. The following table describes the most recent changes to
this document.
Revision Date
Summary of Changes
October 6, 2016
Updated the currently supported service pack
version and upgrade version.
August 4, 2016
Updated the currently supported service pack
version and upgrade version.
June 2, 2016
Updated the currently supported service pack
version and upgrade version.
May 5, 2016
Updated the currently supported service pack
version and upgrade version.
March 3, 2016
Initial Release
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Overview of Continuous Delivery
Overview of Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a design practice used in software development to automate and improve the process of
software delivery. The Continuous Delivery model allows D2L to deliver updated technology to clients, enabling rapid,
incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. This frictionless model also makes it possible
to increase collaboration with clients and to adapt software in line with user feedback and needs, resulting in
incremental and easily integrated changes.
This more agile approach of incremental updates offers many benefits to clients, including a greater code quality, as we
remove the need to support a long list of historical releases. The Continuous Delivery model is also beneficial from a
support perspective, as our teams are able to focus on the details of the current release and do not have to address
issues that may be resolved in newer versions of our software.
The Continuous Delivery model was introduced in Brightspace Learning Environment 10.4. Since then, D2L has provided
monthly releases to clients that have adopted this model.
Upgrade Paths
Under the Continuous Delivery model, upgrades are always to the latest monthly release and there is only one
supported upgrade path from a 10.3 Service Pack (SP). If an SP is applied to your instance that does not align to the
latest monthly release, then D2L will update it to the appropriate SP during the upgrade. If your instance is at an SP that
does not have a currently supported upgrade path, D2L cannot upgrade your instance until the following month.
For example, 10.4.7 is the January 2015 release under the Continuous Delivery model and aligns to 10.3 SP 13. If SP 14
is applied to your D2L instance, it cannot be upgraded in January, as SP 14 is not the supported upgrade path in
January. The instance would have to be upgraded to 10.4.8 in February 2015, as that is the only supported upgrade
path from SP 14.
Your instance can be at a lower version or SP – those can be applied during the upgrade window. For example, you can
upgrade directly from 10.2 to 10.4 or from a lower 10.3 service pack. However, during the upgrade window, D2L applies
those changes.
The following table lists retired upgrade paths, the currently supported upgrade path, and planned upgrade paths. A
retired upgrade path is an upgrade path that is no longer available once the currently supported upgrade path becomes
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Upgrade Paths
available. A planned upgrade path corresponds to a Continuous Delivery release that is not generally available (GA) yet
and, as such, is subject to change.
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Upgrade Paths
10.3 SP version
Supported upgrade version
Upgrade status
10.3 SP 8
10.4.3 (September 2014)
Retired
10.3 SP 9
10.4.4 (October 2014)
Retired
10.3 SP 10
10.4.5 (November 2014)
Retired
10.3 SP 11
10.4.6 (December 2014)
Retired
10.3 SP 12
10.4.6 (December 2014)
Retired
10.3 SP 13
10.4.7 (January 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 14
10.4.8 (February 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 15
10.4.9 (March 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 16
10.4.10 (April 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 17
10.4.11 (May 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 18
10.4.12 (June 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 20
10.5.0 (July 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 20
10.5.1 (August 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 21
10.5.2 (September 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 22
10.5.3 (October 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 23
10.5.4 (November 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 24
10.5.5 (December 2015)
Retired
10.3 SP 25
10.5.6 (January 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 26
10.5.6 (February 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 26
10.5.7 (March 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 27
10.6.0 (April 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 27
10.6.1 (May 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 27
10.6.2 (June 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 27
10.6.3 (July 2016)
Retired
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10.3 SP 28
10.6.4 (August 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 28
10.6.5 (September 2016)
Retired
10.3 SP 28
10.6.6 (October 2016)
Currently Supported
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About D2L
About D2L
A global leader in EdTech, D2L is the creator of Brightspace, the world’s first integrated learning platform.
The company partners with thought-leading organizations to improve learning through data-driven technology that
helps deliver a personalized experience to every learner, regardless of geography or ability. D2L’s open and extensible
platform is used by more than 1,100 clients and almost 15 million individual learners in higher education, K–12,
healthcare, government, and the enterprise sector—including Fortune 1000 companies.
The company has operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore.
www.brightspace.com (http://www.brightspace.com) | www.D2L.com (http://www.d2l.com)
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