Upgrading Renku
We release new minor versions of Renku roughly every month. Bug fixes and patch releases may happen at a higher frequency. Nevertheless, we recommend for administrators who deploy and operate Renku to keep their deployments up to date and to check the Renku releases page on our Github repository at least every 2 weeks.
Regardless of the type of the release (major, minor or patch) administrators should read the release notes to understand what will be changed with the release. We have a section in the release notes dedicated administrators which is useful and we encourage administrators to not skip this.
Patch
Patch or bug fix releases can usually be applied without any downtime or impact to users. These can also contain security fixes and as such should be applied as soon as possible.
Major or Minor
Major or minor releases can contain more extensive, potentially breaking changes. And planing and potentially downtime may be required in order for the upgrade to be applied.
When you are behind more than one minor version on your upgrades, we recommend upgrading to each minor version one-by-one rather than skipping over several minor versions at once.