Product Release Life Cycle
4D Product Release Cycle
Release Line | Feature Release1 | 4D 20 LTS | 4D 19 LTS | 4D 18 LTS | 4D 17 | 4D 16 |
Status | Current | Current | Ended | Obsolete | Obsolete | Obsolete |
Original release | N/A | 10 JUL 23 | 12 JUL 21 | 16 JAN 20 | 10 JUL 18 | 10 JAN 17 |
Latest Release | 20 R6 (24 OCT 24) |
20.5 (14 OCT 24) |
19.8 (11 JUL 24) |
18.6 (13 JUN 22) |
17.5 (3 DEC 20) |
16.6 (24 JUL 19) |
End of Sales | JUL 26 | 12 JUL 24 | 17 JUN 22 | 13 DEC 20 | 26 JUL 19 | |
End of Support | JUL 26 | 12 JUL 24 | 17 JUN 22 | 13 DEC 20 | 26 JUL 19 | |
Latest Hotfix1 | 25 NOV 24 | 18 NOV 24 | 23 APR 24 | 10 FEB 22 | 31 AUG 20 | 21 MAY 19 |
End of Upgrades2 | DEC 25 | 15 DEC 23 | 14 JUN 22 | 18 DEC 20 |
1 Hotfixes and final Feature Releases are available to 4D Partners and to customers with Maintenance contract.
2 Upgrade period for a product is the time in which an owner of said release may migrate to the latest release version at reduced upgrade pricing. After this period, full license must be purchased.
Current
- Maintained under development, with fixes and improvements performed. Intermediary Hotfixes are provided to Partners and to customers with Maintenance contract.
- New license sales and upgrades are available for sale.
- Eligible to Technical support for Partners.
- Bug fixes:
- Feature Releases: Delivered every 3 months with the next Feature Release, and every month with the Hotfixes for blocking deployment issues of the current Feature Release.
- LTS: Delivered in regular minor versions, Hotfixes and Nightly builds.
Ended
- Development ended.
- New licenses sales ended. Upgrades scheduled to be phased out(see table above).
- Technical support no longer available, no new bug fixes will be issued.
Obsolete
- Development ended.
- All sales ended. Upgrades no longer sold.
- No technical support available.