There are many benefits to maintaining your Pricefx solution at the most current release, or one release behind (iei.e. N-1). These benefits span more than just incorporating our latest advancements and . They will also reflect Improvements improvements in our core product and allow our , allowing the support team to respond quickly to our customer's needs. Therefore, to provide a high-quality product and support, starting in June 2023 Pricefx will enforce an N-1 upgrade compliance policy for our customersclients.

Defining N-1 Compliance

Essentially, our customers will need to be no more than 1 release behind our most current major release. So, when Paper Plane 11.0 is was released in 2023, then our support will cover Bees Bee's Knees 10.x and Paper Plane 11.0.

Compliance in Shared Environment

Customers that who are hosted in our Shared environment, are upgraded regularly and automatically to the latest release, once it is made available. You will receive notifications from the The Product Marketing team will send out notifications on the timeline for automatic upgrades to your environment.

The Shared environment option has the capability to use the Pricefx Shared Staging cluster for their QA partition. As such, and the shared cluster is updated about approximately one month prior to a Major release and 1 week before a Minor release.

Compliance in the Private Environment

For those The customers that who are using Private hosting environment , they are NOT upgraded regularly and automatically to the latest release. You They will receive notifications from the Product Marketing team on the timeline for automatic upgrades to your their environment.

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Maintaining N-1 Compliance

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Maintaining good standing with the Pricefx N-1 policy will mean that your PROD release is either at the current release, or, at most, one release behind. To ensure compliance, be prepared to migrate to a new release during every release cycle and perform your release acceptance testing within the time period provided.

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Failure to Comply

If your PROD release does not meet the N-1 compliance policy, then your environment will be automatically scheduled for upgrade to the nearest release that will maintain your compliance. All non-compliant environments are accorded and given an automatic 30 day Grace Period to allow them to migrate to a compliant state.