[Info-vax] Updated VMS Roadmap

[IanMiller]

On 7 Jan, 19:24, Marc Van Dyck <marc.vand... at brutele.be> wrote:
> on 7/01/2010, Guy Peleg supposed :
>
>
>
> > On Jan 7, 6:33 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >> IanMiller wrote:
> >>> Note Previous vms release was V8.3-1H1 in Nov 2007
>
> >> But that was just to add support for some new IA64 boxes (blades as I
> >> recall). It didn't add new functionality to VMS per say and didn't
> >> affect Alpha VMS.
>
> > 8.3-1H1 contains many performance related changes and should be used
> > by
> > anyone using Itanium. There are also few new features hidden in the
> > release
>
> > Guy Peleg
> > Maklee Engineering
> >www.maklee.com
>
> >> And that will be the same for 8.4HW which will be 8.4 with support for
> >> new hardware.
>
> Is the migration from 8.3 to 8.3-1H1 a straightforward one, or should
> everything be re-tested again ? Can I consider migrating from 8.3
> to 8.3-1H1 like if I was just applying a set of patches ?
>
> --
> Marc Van Dyck


I the OpenVMS Version 8.3--1H1 New Features manual section 2.1 is a
statement of binary compatibility which you may draw comfort from. As
for testing, do whatever you would do after installing a bunch of
patches.