Pulsar Release Schedule
Pulsar Major Releases
The Pulsar application is constantly improving in tandem with our customer needs and feedback. We follow a schedule of three major releases each year (March, July, November) that include many new features. We freeze our feature development process four weeks in advance of the major release date. At this point we subject the release candidate to our own internal testing and QA processes. Once the Pulsar application passes all our internal checks, we publish it as a public beta release for all three platforms.
We recommend that our customers perform their own QA testing with the public beta release to verify and take advantage of new functionality and best practices. At a minimum, your QA team should install and test the beta Pulsar application to verify operations continuity. During this beta testing period, please send us your feedback about any issues or concerns. Once the QA test feedback period ends, we re-run our own testing and QA processes before publishing the new Pulsar application for general release on all app stores.
Pulsar Critical Updates
In rare circumstances we may need to publish a point release of the Pulsar app to fix a critical bug in production. These point releases go through our same internal testing and QA processes, but are immediately published to the appropriate app stores in order to quickly remedy a situation for affected customers.
Special Note About Release Management For Your End Users
Since Pulsar is a mobile application, your end users are ultimately in control of the release they download to their devices. This is a general release management problem when it comes to mobile applications by the very nature of how they are distributed through various application stores. Some of our customers use MDM (Mobile Device Management) software to control the application distribution. With MDM’s help you can enforce strict control on which Pulsar version you distribute to your users after the release went through your rigorous internal testing.
Product Release Roadmap
Release | Release Version 2024 | Beta Release Date | Production Release Date |
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Jan - Major Release | 12.0.0 | The first Friday after 15-Aug | The first Friday after 15-Jan |
Jul - Major Release | 13.0.0 | The first Friday after 15-Jun | The first Friday after 15-Jul |
Nov - Major Release | 14.0.0 | The first Friday after 15-Oct | The first Friday after 15-Nov |
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