Release calendar

What?
Product fixes and minor improvements. Release notes are available two days before the pre-production deployments.

How often?
Every month, except for months with a feature release and December.

When?
Sundays between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC.

Which environments?
First your pre-production environments, three weeks later your production environments.

Requires your attention?
No, but during the upgrade, there will be 20 minutes of downtime interrupting running processes such as workflow tasks, synchronizing data sources and backup and restore.

Example timeline

			Pre-production deployment
			Production deployment
			In-app notification
			Release notes publication

What?
New and enhanced product functionality and capabilities, as well as product fixes. Release notes are available two weeks before the pre-production deployment.

How often?
Every 4 months.

When?
Sundays between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC.

Which environments?
First your pre-production environments, three weeks later your production environments.

Requires your attention?
You may be required to update Jobservers or Edge sites. During the upgrade, there will be 20 minutes of downtime interrupting running processes such as workflow tasks, synchronizing data sources and backup and restore.

Example timeline

			Pre-production deployment
			Production deployment
			In-app notification
			Release notes publication

What?
Urgent fixes only. Release notes are available at least one business day before the update. You will receive an in-app notification at the latest at 12:00 UTC of the business day before the deployment.

How often?
Only when required.

When?
Sundays between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC. If there is a severe security issue, a hotfix may be deployed in different window.

Which environments?
All affected environments at the same time.

Requires your attention?
Only if peripheral products such as Jobserver or Edge sites are affected.
If you update Edge automatically, you don't need to do anything. If you use Edge manual upgrades, the update is available as soon as it is ready for you to download and deploy.
During the upgrade, there will be 20 minutes of downtime interrupting running processes such as workflow tasks, synchronizing data sources and backup and restore.

Example timeline

			Critical problem discovered
			Pre-production deployment
			Production deployment
			In-app notification
			Release notes publication

What?
Infrastructure updates that do not affect Collibra functionality, but that keep Collibra up to date with the latest security and compliance measures.

How often?
Every month, except for December.

When?
Sundays between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC.

Which environments?
All environments at the same time.

Requires your attention?
No, because these releases do not affect Collibra software or its functionalities directly.

Example timeline

			Infrastructure update
			In-app notification

What?
Feature enhancements and fixes to Edge site infrastructure and capabilities. Release notes are available two days before the deployments.

How often?
Updates can occur weekly if there are fixes or improvements ready to roll out. However, there may be weeks without Edge updates.

When?
Sundays between 12:00 (noon) - 17:00 UTC.

Which environments?
Pre-production and production environments.

Requires your attention?

If you use Edge manual upgrades, the update is available as soon as it is ready for you to download and deploy. If you update Edge automatically, you don't need to do anything. However, during the upgrade, there will be 20 minutes of downtime interrupting running processes such as running Edge jobs.

What?
Feature enhancements and fixes to the Collibra Data Lineage service instances. Release notes are available two days before the deployments.

How often?
Weekly

When?
Mondays between 07:00 - 12:00 (noon) CET.

Which environments?
Not applicable.

Requires your attention?
No, but during the maintenance window, you might experience an interruption of service.

What?
Feature enhancements and fixes for self-hosted Collibra Data Quality & Observability. Release notes are available at least three weeks before deployments.

How often?
Monthly

When?
Either the first or last Monday of the month, depending on the month.

Which environments?
Any environments you intend to upgrade.

Requires your attention?
Yes, if you choose to upgrade, you are required to complete the upgrade process.