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What if a gateway update causes errors?
As you can see from my screenshot there can be many, many corrections issued between regular releases. September 2025 had five versions, for example, and the latest August version was sneakily inserted AFTER the first September version was released.
Of course you can take your own conclusions from that but we have been badly burned in the past by this, and are now extra extra cautious, updating a canary first and then waiting how it behaves. There are tons of feature changes between versions, nearly none of them documented (the latest 0.20 Spark drama for example).
There be dragons.
Your gateway should always have more than one cluster member. Then you can update the cluster members one by one and still have a working gateway if an upgrade fails. NOTE: YOU CANNOT REVERT !!! You will have to uninstall and reinstall and reconfigure.
Pro tip: DO NOT update immediately when a new version comes out. Wait a month or five and monitor the forums here to see if there are any glaringly obvious issues.
I've got multiple VMs in our gateway cluster, so all good there. I'm curious about your update strategy though... from what I've seen new updates come out monthly, so if I waited 5 months to install the June update, when I'd go to download it in November I'd be downloading either the October or November update instead wouldn't I?
As you can see from my screenshot there can be many, many corrections issued between regular releases. September 2025 had five versions, for example, and the latest August version was sneakily inserted AFTER the first September version was released.
Of course you can take your own conclusions from that but we have been badly burned in the past by this, and are now extra extra cautious, updating a canary first and then waiting how it behaves. There are tons of feature changes between versions, nearly none of them documented (the latest 0.20 Spark drama for example).
There be dragons.
Thank you! Do you know where I could find some feedback on various versions? My google attempts haven't pulled up anything substantial.
