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The table below also includes information on any special upgrade instructions that you should be aware of when planning to migrate to a new version. Please check for all special instructions between your current version and the new version. While the upgrade process for PhixFlow itself is fastquick, please use the table below to determine if you need to plan, with your IT department, upgrades to upgrade any other software.

Warning

The following database versions will not be supported by major releases after 31st March 2018. If you are on one of these versions we recommend that you upgrade to a later version.

Oracle  11g

SQL Server 2012

MariaDB 10.0

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We will support SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2014 until the end of 2018.

At this point support for these databases will be ended.


PhixFlow Major Version


Databases Supported

Tomcat

Java Runtime

Browsers

Special upgrade instructions

Oracle

MS SQL Server

Maria DB

IE1Chrome2

Firefox2

7.6

12c (12.1

Firefox1

7.4

12c)

2017

2016

2014

2008

10.1

8.5


8116659

Mandatory: Upgrade to Oracle 12c

Mandatory: Upgrade to MariaDB 10.1

We will support SQL Server 2008 until the end of 2018. At this point support for this database will be ended.

7.5

12c (12.1)

11g

2016

2014

2012

2008

10.1

10.0

8.5


81162635658

Advisory: If using Oracle upgrade to version 12c.

7.4

12c (12.1)

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5


8116256

If using Oracle 12c, update the phixflow-datasource.xml file to resolve an issue that can affect configuration imports; see Oracle 12c - edit phixflow-datasource.xml for details.

Excel File Collectors must quote worksheet names if they contain spaces and/or single quotes. This is not handled automatically by the upgrade process. See special notes for Excel file collectors at 7.4.0 for details.

7.3

12c (12.1)

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5


8116055Mandatory: Upgrade to Tomcat 8.5
7.2

12c (12.1)

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5

8

7

8115550

If using SQL Server, you need to update the SQLServer dialect specified in the phixflow-datasource.xml file. See: Release 7.2.0

7.1

12c (12.1)

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5

8

7

8

11

10

55

50

Advisory: Upgrade to Tomcat 8.5

Advisory: If using Oracle upgrade to version 12c.

7.0

12c (12.1)

11g

2016

2014

2012

10.1

10.0

8.5

8

7

8

11

10

53

47

Mandatory:  Install Java 8.

Advisory: Upgrade to Tomcat 8.5

Advisory: If using Oracle upgrade to version 12c.

6.0

12c (12.1)

11g

2008 R2

10.1

10.0

8

7

7

8.053

47


5.9

12c (12.1)

11g

2008 R2

-

8

7

7

8.0-

-

Please see additional special upgrade instructions for this release at Upgrade 5.9.0

5.8

11g

2008 R2

-

7

7

8.0-

-



1 We support the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. However, because both Chrome and Firefox continually upgrade, the The use of IE with PhixFlow version 7.0 onwards (i.e. with the Javascript GUI) is not recommended. The GUI has full functionality in this browser, but does not perform as well as in Chrome and Firefox.

2 We support all versions of Chrome and Firefox released in the 2 years prior to the release date. The versions tested at the time this page was published of each release are listed here. Should you have any problems with the latest version of these browsersan earlier version than that listed, but within 2 years of the release date, or a later version than that listed, please contact the PhixFlow support desk.