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c_lovestrom
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9 months ago
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What if a gateway update causes errors?

My manager is concerned that one day we'll update our on-premise data gateway that the majority of our power bi service connections use, and the update will have errors that will cause all our Semant...
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    lbendlin
    9 months ago

    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.

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lbendlin
Super User
9 months ago

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.