Exasol release streams

Learn about the different Exasol release types and release cycles.

Innovation release

Innovation releases provide you with quick access to the latest features and developments.

There are two Innovation releases every year. Each Innovation release is supported until the next Innovation release is published plus 3 months, which allows you enough time to update to the latest release while still receiving full support.

Long Term Support (LTS) release

One of the Innovation releases each year becomes a Long Term Support (LTS) release. An LTS release has a focus on stability and reliability and will not receive any feature changes during its support period, only security updates and bug fixes.

An LTS release is fully supported for an additional two (2) years beyond the initial Innovation release support period.

Rolling releases

Exasol was previously released using a rolling release model. This release stream is now deprecated. We recommend that you update to a supported release.

Updates

Exasol regularly rolls out updates in the Innovation and LTS release streams. The changes in each update are summarized in the Release notes and described in more detail in the Changelogs.

You can update self-managed deployments of Exasol either from the command line or using Exasol Admin (if enabled in the deployment). To learn more, see Update Exasol.

Exasol SaaS deployments can be updated automatically as well as manually from the web console. To learn more, see Automated updates.

To maintain data security, make sure to keep your Exasol deployment updated. Check the release notes regularly and apply security updates without delay.

Version naming

Exasol Innovation and LTS releases from 2025.1.0 and onwards use the version naming convention YEAR.RELEASE.PATCH.

  • RELEASE is incremented for each Innovation release, and usually indicates significant feature changes compared to the previous version.

    One of the two Innovation releases each year becomes an LTS release.

  • In the Innovation release stream, a PATCH release can include new features and feature improvements as well as bug fixes and security updates.

  • In the LTS release stream, a PATCH release will only include bug fixes and security updates.

Driver versions

Exasol drivers use the versioning schema YY.RELEASE.PATCH, where YY is the last two digits of the year the driver was released.

Release notes