What changed from m6 to m6a? Should you bother upgrading if you're on m6 already?

We have M5a running. Is is better to keep up to date with the milestones, if we want to install the Rational Team Concert 1.0 release when available?

What changed from m6 to m6a? Should you bother upgrading if you're on m6 already?

m6 is a milestone build. We deploy the milestone build for our own self hosting. If we find critical fixes during the first week of self hosting we have started to produce a stabilization build of the milestone build. This build is m6a and includes a small number of critical fixes (see below). After approval by the team, the stabilized milestone build is promoted to be the default/recommended download on jazz.net.

Here are the fixes that went into m6a:
(this list was created by comparing the snapshots corresponding to m6 and m6a)

--erich
Jazz PMC

RelEng
46494: Adopt changes in WaitForTeamBuildTask
Build
50857: Maven home text field doesn't validate correctly - Validate when maven home text is changed
AgilePlanning
46244: Linux-Text can barely be seen in certain places of the RTC UI. (i.e. text for tasks shown in Iteration Plans.)
49989: Test Failure (I20080403-2011): com.ibm.team.apt.internal.ide.ui.tests.personal.MyWorkWorkflowTest.testReopenWorkItem
50188: NPE in GFiledAgainst
50395: Use quickinformation instead of linkssummary in migrated story editor - Enable for Beta 3
Reports
50455: Reports verification error during migration from M5a to M6
UA-Server
50366: WAS setup instructions have incorrect information regarding JVM arguments
50321: The bundle com.ibm.team.repository.web.admin.doc is missing its localization file
Interop
50214: Latest version of Jazz CQ Connector OOTB schema missing from M6 - change for M6a
RelEngBuilder
49949: Binary Prereqs should not reload for server packaging
Process
49980: Unable to create team area without JazzAdmins permission
50672: Process permission restriction fails in a customized team area
WorkItem
50648: IWorkItemCommon.findWorkflowInfo() shouldn't return null
50509: ItemNotFoundException when creating new user - Applied Darin's change as patch for M6a
46369: No way to "undirty" a work item in the web ui
49956: work item history on new work item thinks creation is in the future
50086: Attachments are missing in the quick information section
50193: Subscribe to query feed not working
50206: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception when creating new Story
50416: Web UI - Error running query: unset attribute
50446: WorkItemProcessMigrationHelper corrupts specification XML
ClearCase Connector
50680: Provide workaround for handling a UCM component that is a single Eclipse project - M6-PATCH
50066: False failure results in Sync view after importing project without .project file (also after simple sync of an existing setup)
50664: Patch M6 to work around undocumented cleartool (or Windows command-line?) argv length limit - Merge back
50230: initArgs are not getting set in InteropTestCase - reapply changes on ClearCase Connector Self-Host stream

We have M5a running. Is is better to keep up to date with the milestones, if we want to install the Rational Team Concert 1.0 release when available?

The build we recommend is shown in on the jazz.net home page in the top right corner. This is currently m6a which is a stabilized m6 milestone build (see my previous post).

As a development team we prefer feedback/bugs against the recommended build. For you as a user we hope that you get benefits from using a more recent build. Please see the new&noteworthy for M6a: https://jazz.net/downloads/DownloadDocument.jsp?href=milestones/data/0.6M6a/jazz-news-0.6M6a.html

--erich
Jazz PMC

In upgrading from M6 to M6a:

1) Does the repository db need to be upgraded?
2) Will M6 client work against M6a?

Thanks.

shawnlauzon wrote:

In upgrading from M6 to M6a:

1) Does the repository db need to be upgraded?
2) Will M6 client work against M6a?

Thanks.

Re 1) No repository migration is required.

Re 2) The recommendation is to upgrade both. The team
has tested and approved M6a with M6a on both the client and server.

--erich
Jazz PMC

FYI, the M6a download page is missing the usually "How to migrate Jazz repository to ..." link.