Support Duration for HVR 5 Releases

• Major HVR versions released since 2019 (starting from HVR 5.6) are supported for 3 years from their General Availability (GA) release date.
• A minor release (e.g. HVR 5.3.0) or an HVR patch (e.g. HVR 5.3.0/1 or HVR 5.3.0/1.1) does not prolong the support duration. For example, if HVR 5.3 will expire at date X then that date will not be extended if HVR 5.3.2 is released a year later.
• HVR offers "extended" support beyond these end of support dates. The duration of extended support is determined on a case-by-case basis.

The following table shows the release and support dates for the most recent major HVR releases:

Compatibility Between HVR Versions

• HVR versions are 'network compatible' with the two previous HVR major versions, but not with HVR versions that have a different initial number. For example HVR 5.6 is network compatible with 5.5 and 5.3, but not with HVR 5.2 nor with (future) HVR 6.0. To be clear no version of HVR 5 will be compatible with HVR 6 and vice versa.
• When using a mix of HVR versions, note that each bug fix or feature is only effective if the correct installation is upgraded. For example, if a new HVR release fixes an integrate bug, then that release must be installed on the installation(s) which do(es) integrate. So if only the GUI and/or hub installation(s) is(are) upgraded, then there will be no benefit. To decide whether each installation needs to be upgraded, see the descriptions in the release notes (available in HVR_HOME/hvr.rel). Each description ends with a line saying which installation(s) must be upgraded for that specific bug fix or feature to be effective.

Supported Operating System (OS) Releases

• The HVR release notes (available in HVR_HOME/hvr.rel) lists the supported OS versions (such as "Solaris for SPARC, version 10 and higher") for each HVR release.
• HVR only specifies the initial OS version for Unix systems; certification for subsequent OS versions (e.g. Solaris version 10) by HVR is automatic due to OS supplier's own forward compatibility guarantees.
• Once an OS version is supported by HVR, support for that platform will continue until the OS supplier ends its "mainstream support". After that date HVR support goes from "regular" to "Sunset" support, which means that HVR support continues (including new HVR versions for it), but eventually it may be withdrawn without notice.
• A customer may request that HVR makes support for an OS version "extended" instead of "Sunset", which means that support will not be withdrawn as long as the customer continues to share information about the production status of that OS version for the customer and HVR continues to have the reasonable ability to support the platform.
• A consequence of the end of HVR support is that HVR is no longer able to supply patches for that OS version.
• HVR supports Linux based on a minimal glibc version of 2.12 which is not limited to the Enterprise products below. As long as the version of Linux is compatible with glibc it should work.

To see which OS releases are supported by HVR, see Platform Compatibility Matrix.

The following table shows the OS suppliers support status of specific OS versions as known by HVR.

Supported DBMS Releases

• The HVR release notes (in $HVR_HOME/hvr.rel) lists the supported DBMS versions (such as "Oracle: version 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c") for each HVR release. The list of supported DBMS versions is different for HVR on each OS platform.
• Subsequent major versions of the DBMS (such as "Oracle 20") are not automatically supported, but may be recertified by HVR after QA testing. But patches to a supported DBMS version are automatically supported by HVR (no recertification is done at patch level).
• Once a DBMS version is supported by HVR on a given OS platform, support for that DBMS version will continue at least until the DBMS supplier ends its "mainstream support". After that date HVR support goes from "regular" to "Sunset" support, which means that HVR support continues (including new HVR versions for it), but eventually it will be withdrawn without notice.
• A customer may request that HVR makes support for a DBMS version "extended" instead of "Sunset", which means that support will not be withdrawn as long as the customer continues to share information about the production status of that DBMS version for the customer and HVR can reasonably continue to support this platform.
• A consequence of the end of HVR support is that HVR is no longer able to supply patches for that DBMS.
• 5.6 is the last release that will support HPUX.  HVR can support Oracle 11.2 and no further versions.

To see which DBMS releases are supported by HVR, see Platform Compatibility Matrix.

The following table shows the DBMS suppliers support status of specific DBMS versions as known by HVR.