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Lesson: Explaining the Revision Strategy of SAP HANA

Revisions and support packages have their own release cycle, and can be installed or
upgraded separately.

SAP HANA Maintenance Strategy

The SAP HANA maintenance strategy is based on incremental, non-disruptive innovation
updates.
New functions are introduced once a year, every time a new SAP HANA support package
stack (SPS) is released. This happens at the beginning of April.
As of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS02, SAP is providing bug fixes and security patches for every SPS for
two years after RTC. The last SPS of a major product version is in maintenance for five years
after RTC.

Figure 148: SAP HANA 2.0 Maintenance Strategy

SAP provides bug fixes and security patches for every SPS until the next SPS is released.

Note:
Adjust maintenance time lines and project go-live dates to this release schedule.
See SAP Note 2378962 - SAP HANA 2.0 Revision and Maintenance Strategy for
further details.

Because updates shipped for the SAP HANA platform are strictly downward compatible,
earlier revisions can be removed from SAP Support Portal when a newer SAP HANA revision
of the same SPS becomes available. Incompatible changes are considered for legal or
security reasons, but are subject to a strict exception approval process.
The SAP HANA platform product remains in maintenance as long as any SAP business
application releases built on top of SAP HANA are in mainstream maintenance, extended
maintenance, or priority-one support.

Upgrade to SAP HANA 2.0

You can upgrade to SAP HANA 2.0 for systems running SAP HANA on SPS10 or newer.
Systems running on SAP HANA SPS09 or lower first need to upgrade to an SAP HANA
release after SPS10.

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