Support lifecycle policy

Cloud Pak for Business Automation uses a continuous delivery support model to provide new functions and enhancements more frequently, along with security updates and defect fixes.

Cloud Pak for Business Automation uses a numbering scheme that helps you to identify the age of your installed version. Instead of a traditional numbering scheme that starts at 1.0 and then increases to identify the order of the releases, the version number starts with the year it is released in. The 1st digit in a version.release.modification.fix is the number of years since 2000. The 4th digit is the interim fix (IF00x) for that release or modification. For more information, see Product lifecycle.

Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1 refers to a modification (3rd digit), which does not reset the support lifecycle of the previous version (1st digit) and release (2nd digit). The support lifecycle of Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.0 is a Support Cycle-2 (SC-2) policy. For more information, see Support Lifecycle Policies.