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- nitassEmployee
Since all the servers are in production so they are hesitant to upgrade it to higher version(i.e. to 11.6). Could you please provide us a PATCH instead of going for an upgrade to help us deploying in all the servers and thus fixing the issue?
as you have been informed, product development team is working on it but there is no eta yet. it will be included in hf9.
- vishnu_agrawal_Nimbostratus
Thanks for your prompt response.
Is it not that first the patch is developed?
Anyone who go for the upgrade once, will not need the patch further.
Kindly suggest if we should wait for you to provide the patch or go with an upgrade(which is not so easy since they are in production).
Depends on complexity of your setup.
We had issues in the past going from 10.2 to 11.0, but had no issues going from 11.2 to 11.5.0 (although that wasn't as much of a direct upgrade as it was migration to vCMP by moving config manually).
If you can spin up a virtual F5 to your active version (not allowing network access for anything except management, and changing the management address), then do the upgrade to 11.6 HF1 and see how it goes.
But as nitass said, they have patches for the latest versions, but older versions should be patched, but are likely to have a lower priority as it's old code.
- vishnu_agrawal_Nimbostratus
Thanks Andrew. I got a mail from f5 customer support as below: "Hi Vishnu,
Hot fix for 10.2.4 (HF9) with security patches is expected to be released in next few days.
I will update you once it is available.
Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions or require any assistance."
So, please confirm if it is expected in next few days and we should still wait for it?
Kind Regards, Vishnu Agrawal
- nitassEmployee
i am not in development team but i understand the hotfix is in testing phase and would be available soon.
- vishnu_agrawal_Nimbostratus
Hi I have downloaded the patch and read the installation procedure:
I have a question on the Fallback scenario or Reverting to a previous hotfix version
Just for example:
Note that my current Boot image is HD1.1 and HD1.2 is the older version not in use. Now, I made HD1.1 as inactive and HD1.2 active and installed the hotfix. If I want to revert now to HD1.1 how can I do it? As, you see HD1.1 is already corrupted with the hotfix I installed just now. And HD1.2 is no longer in use and is in very old version which we were not using.
Please help me to figure this out.
- vishnu_agrawal_Nimbostratus
For reverting to original version/ Fallback procedure, what I can say for 11.x version is more meaningful and explainatory. Link below: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13123/
But why doesn't the same fallback procedure applies for version 10.2.4 to install HF9 ?
Please let me know the correct/exact Fallback procedures as I am preparing to test on staging.
Thanks & Regards, Vishnu