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Version: 8.2411.x.x RR

LTS-2024 Major Upgrade Announcement

Overview​​

In May 2024, the LTS-2024 major release becomes available. Functionality-wise, this release is based on the February 2024 Rolling Release, introducing many new Nevis Identity Suite features with long term support. In general, LTS-2024 will contain all improvements and changes that appeared in the major and minor Rolling Releases since November 2021.

Preparations required

LTS-2024 is a major upgrade with many changes compared to the LTS-2021 release.

We recommend customers to plan ahead and reserve ample time for upgrade preparations. The preparations should include the following points:

  • Reading all relevant release notes
  • Performing configuration updates
  • Doing upgrade "rehearsals"
  • Extensive testing of all use cases

When your upgrade procedures and use cases work well, you should also have a smooth production upgrade.

Technical support and minor updates for LTS-2021 will continue until November 20241. This means that you have one year to prepare and finish the upgrade.

Upgrade Guide​​

In May 2024, Nevis provides a guide for customers who want to upgrade from any supported LTS-2021 release to the initial LTS-2024 release. This Upgrade Guide highlights common steps to take to upgrade your LTS system, and summarises major breaking changes.

As a heads-up, see LTS24 Migration Guide.

Migration guide per component

Rolling Release customers​​

Customers who want to switch from RR to LTS can seamlessly do so. As a requirement, first upgrade to the February 2024 Rolling Release. But instead of upgrading to the May 2024 Rolling Release (or a later one), you then update to the LTS-2024 release, which will be almost identical to the November 2023 RR.

To compare RR benefits with LTS benefits, see the chapters ‘Rolling Release’ of the Nevis Product Lifetime guide.

Platforms support in LTS-2024​​

LTS-2024 will support:

  • RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 operating systems
  • nevisAppliance based on Rocky Linux 8
  • SLES 16 (for selected components)

LTS-2024 will not support:

  • RHEL 7 / SLES 12

See the Linux Distribution Support Policy for Nevis Linux Distribution Support Policy for Nevis | Nevis documentation for full details.

nevisAdmin4-based Docker/Kubernetes support​​

Kubernetes support is only available in combination with nevisAdmin 4.

As Kubernetes (short K8S) is in rapid development, only the latest K8S versions are maintained. This means that it is required to upgrade to the latest LTS patch quarterly, which also requires upgrading Kubernetes versions according to the Nevis Product Lifetime and Platform Support Matrix.

Components included in LTS-2024

The following Nevis components are included in LTS-2024:

  • nevisAppliance
  • nevisAdapt
  • nevisAdmin 4
  • nevisAuth
  • nevisCred
  • nevisDataPorter
  • nevisDetect
  • nevisFIDO (with additional nevisfidocl packages)
  • nevisIDM (with additional nevisidmcl, nevisidmdb, adnooprint packages)
  • nevisKeybox
  • nevisLogRend
  • nevisMeta
  • nevisProxy
  • Ninja
  • Ninwin
  • Nevis Mobile Authentication Client SDK
  • Nevis Access App

Components removed in LTS-2024

The following EOL components were part of the LTS-2021 major release, but are no longer included in the LTS-2024 major release:

  • nevisAgent
  • nevisAdmin 3
  • filebeat
  • SNMP metrics
  • heartbeat
  • journalbeat

RR components compatible with LTS-2024​​

Nevis Mobile Authentication Client SDK

Nevis Access App

Consult your Nevis Value Added Reseller if you have questions about how to continue using Nevis without these components.

  1. Customers that have a separate [Extended Life Support] contract can use LTS-2021 until November 2025. Contact your Nevis Account Manager in case you require such a contract.↩