Manage Major Release Versions

Activate a major release when it becomes available.

Note: Limited Availability This feature is in limited availability. If you are interested, please contact your Partner Success Manager.

Who can use this feature?

To use the APIs, you must have a Visier account with a profile that has the API capability. If you don't have an account, contact your administrator. They will create an account for you with permissions that allow you to view data.

In addition to an API profile, your API user must have a profile with the additional capability:

  • Settings

Not sure if you have this feature or capability? Reach out to your administrator.

Overview

To continuously improve the user experience, Visier introduces platform and product updates in various forms:

  • Major release: Contains new features, platform enhancements, and Blueprint updates.
  • Patch: Contains bug fixes, non-functional enhancements, and new and enhanced APIs.
  • Hotfix: Addresses critical issues and bugs.

This feature provides greater control over when your tenants receive a major release from Visier. Major release versions are not automatically activated on tenants when they become available. You will have a designated release window to preview and activate the latest version. With Visier People, you'll have a 9 to 10 week window after a version becomes available. Once the release window is over, your tenants will automatically be activated to the latest version.

Take advantage of the release window to test and prepare for the upcoming new features and updates, including:

  • Significant changes to the user interface and workflows in the Solution
  • Significant changes that impact existing features and workflows in Studio
  • Changes to Vee's prompt methodology and the introduction of new large language models

Note:  

  • Permission capabilities and tenant settings allow you to control access to specific features, giving you the flexibility to enable them when needed. For more information, see Capabilities List and Tenant Settings.
  • Visier controls the release of:
    • New Studio features and workflows
    • Additional functions for the Visier Formula Language, Visier Business Rule Language, and Visier Extraction Language
    • Taxonomy updates
    • Data updates, including new Visier Benchmarks

Test and validate a major release

Once a major release version is available, try out and test the changes in your development or validation environment. Use these API calls in order:

  1. GET /v1alpha/admin/product/releases to retrieve the latest release version.
  2. PATCH /v1alpha/admin/product/versions to activate the latest release version on specific analytic tenants.
  3.  GET /v1alpha/admin/product/versions to confirm the latest release version was activated on the specified analytic tenant. Then validate the release changes in the analytic tenant application.

Activate a major release

When you're ready to release the latest version to the production environment, call PATCH/v1alpha/admin/product/versions to activate the release version on the administrating tenant. Analytic tenants will inherit the release version from the administrating tenant.

Note: You cannot rollback to a previous version once the latest release version is activated on a tenant.

These code samples may not include all available parameters and request body fields for each endpoint. For the endpoint's full request schema, see "Release Versions" in API Reference.