About Long-Lived Releases
Cisco ACI long-lived releases are software releases intended to help you stay on a given release on a long-term basis (up to approximately 18 months), while benefiting from frequent maintenance drops to ensure quality and stability. Cisco may support two long-lived releases at any given point of time. However, active maintenance will be focused primarily on the latest long-lived release. These releases will be maintained for a longer time span than other releases. Long-lived releases are recommended for the deployment of widely adopted functions or for networks that will not be upgraded frequently.
All long-lived releases support upgrade or downgrade to the next or previous long-lived release. See the APIC Upgrade/Downgrade Support Matrix for confirmed support.
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Some release branches might be supported as long-lived releases while others might not be supported. For example, there might be three 2.x release branches: 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3. However, one of the three 2.x release branches might be supported as a long-lived release (2.2), while the other two release branches (2.1 and 2.3) might not be supported as long-lived releases. |