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Overview

FreeWheel is committed to delivering innovative products and features that solve your business needs. To support you as we bring new products, feature improvements, and capabilities to market, we are pleased to share a few release resource improvements. As of June 30, 2020, FreeWheel will formally support a midpoint release and provide a dedicated release guide.

What is a midpoint release?

Every 8 weeks, FreeWheel releases new features and improvements to production. The midpoint release occurs between each of the MRM major releases. Features typically fall into one of the categories below:


Midpoint Release
CategoryDescriptions
General Improvements

Bug fixes, performance improvements, client-transparent infrastructure changes, and non-client facing code changes.

Supports New Products

Features and capabilities released to support newer FreeWheel Products, such as the Programmatic module.

Requires Enablement

New products, capabilities, and/or features that are not yet in use by any clients and require enablement.

Please note that FreeWheel may need to release features that fall outside of the categories listed above. This may include:

  • New capabilities and improvements to immediately support client business needs.
  • Product updates that were previously communicated but postponed to a future release.


Understanding FreeWheel Releases

The midpoint release allows our Engineering and Product teams to make feature changes on a faster cadence to support your business needs. To help illustrate the new publishing cadence for release guides, an example for the upcoming release is pictured below.

How will FreeWheel support each release?

Information is key for any successful product or feature adoption. To support each releases, we will provide you with

Upcoming Improvements

To better support each release, we wanted to share a few improvements:

ResourceUpdateDescription
Midpoint Release Guide
  • New resource

Upcoming midpoint release features, capabilities, and improvements with links to documentation.

  • At this time, the new guide will be published 1 week before a midpoint release. We hope to publish this earlier in the future.
  • Long-term reminders for upcoming features, larger updates, and deprecations can be found in the major release guide.
Major Release Guide
  • Consolidated the major release brief and guide
  • Earlier publishing dates

Consolidated the Release Brief and Guide

  • In the past, the release brief featured short feature descriptions. As we worked to provide you with more information, the release brief and release guide grew to present same level of information.
  • To streamline resources and communications, the release brief and release guide will be consolidated in to a single major release guide.

New Publishing Date

  • Previously, the release brief was published 4 weeks before the major release.
  • Now, the release guide will be published 5 weeks before a major release.
    • As a reminder, we will publish a Hub announcement and a Support Portal notification 1 week before each major release.

Additional Features

  • Once features are confirmed by our Product teams, they will be added to the release guide.
    • As of the 6.36 release, we have added a Release Guide Updates section to surface edits to the release guide.
Support Portal Notifications
  • Updated notification schedule to align with the midpoint and major release publications

To subscribe to the Support Portal notifications, please see subscribing to service notifications on the Hub.

  • The Hub will continue announce release guide publications
FreeWheel MRM Release Calendar
  • Updated release guide publishing dates
  • Added midpoint release dates

The FreeWheel MRM Release Calendar and Scheduled Maintenance Events page has been updated.

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