Ignition Builds for Pharma

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ICC 2025 covered versioning changes that are coming where there will be long term stable builds that are considered safe and good for use in change regulated industries like Pharma (IQ/OQ/PQ). The slide showed that happening at 8.3.8.

Was that an actual target of when you expect to start rolling out the long term stable builds or was it just an example to illustrate the idea?

Do we have a relative ETA of when this is expected to go live?

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Take this with a grain of salt because I don't actually know what slide or information you're referring to, but my understanding of the versioning strategy going forward is:

  • 8.3 is the current "LTS" version, and will continue to receive bug fixes / security updates for the next 5 years.
  • In approximately February of each year, we'll release a new major version, e.g. 2027.2.0. This will receive regular updates over the course of the year.
  • The next LTS release, Ignition 2028-LTS.0, will be launched in roughly March 2029, based on a version of Ignition 2028 that will have already been in circulation for a full year, ensuring it is highly stable, polished, and secure.

I suspect you might be thinking of this new definition of LTS...

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I am. Thank you for the clarification.

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See this blog post:

The detail you cite is in the animated release train graphic.

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Thanks Phil