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Content Change Notification - Visual Studio 2019 Lifecycle and Preview Version/Edition changes

bcurran1
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Flexera Alumni

Flexera is planning to update the End of Life and End of Support/Obsolete dates in Technopedia for Visual Studio 2019 to follow the Microsoft Product Lifecycle and Servicing Policy

 

 

 

Change Title

Visual Studio 2019 Lifecycle and Preview Version/Edition changes

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Customers should be aware and be prepared

Change Summary

Flexera is planning to update the End of Life and End of Support/Obsolete dates in Technopedia for Visual Studio 2019 to follow the Microsoft Product Lifecycle and Servicing Policy as defined here.  For some Versions, the EOL/EOS dates will be changed to a date in the past indicating that Microsoft no longer provides support for that version.   

In addition, the current Preview Versions of Visual Studio 2019 will be deleted and Professional, Enterprise and Community Preview Editions will be created instead. This will involve remapping of existing evidence rules to new Releases.

Impact

Customers need to be aware that Technopedia Lifecycle dates for End of Life and End of Support will be changing and some Versions of Visual Studio 2019 are no longer supported by Microsoft. The details are as follows:  

  • Servicing baselines: - Versions 16.0, 16.4 and 16.7 will receive servicing fixes for 12 months after the next servicing baseline is declared. The specific EOS dates are show here

 

  • Standard Minor Versions: - For Versions 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.5, 16.6 and 16.8, Microsoft offer servicing fixes only until the next minor update is released. Therefore, the EOS dates for these minor versions are determined by the GA of next minor versions. Note: the EOL/EOS dates for these versions except 16.8 will be changing to a date in the past.  The GA dates for Visual Studio 2019 are shown here

 

  • Professional Preview Editions:  Versions 16.7, 16.8, and 16.9 will be considered EOS when the next GA version is released. For example, Visual Studio Professional 16.8 Preview will be EOS when 16.9 is GA.

 

  • Preview Versions and Editions: - The current Preview Versions 16.6, 16.7, 16.8 and 16.9 will be marked as ‘to-be-deleted’.  Releases with Preview Editions which include Professional Preview, Enterprise Preview and Community Preview will be created as the replacements for Preview Versions.

 

The full list of changes are in the attachment below. 

Note that Releases tagged To Be Deleted will be removed from Technopedia in 6 months
‎Dec 11, 2020 03:33 AM
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