Hi Team,
We are planning to upgrade our Application from Pega 8.4.2.
We are currently weighing our options of upgrading to Pega 8.7 against Pega 8.8.
As per the Pega Platform Support Guide (Link), support for Windows Server 2016 is deprecated in Pega 8.8 whereas it is supported in Pega 8.7. Please refer the below table which explains the current infrastructure of our application. We would like to use the same infrastructure for the current upgrade. Could you please advise to which Pega version we have to upgrade to get maximum support from Pega in case of any issues after the upgrade or in future.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Pega 8.4 (our Current Version) |
Pega 8.7 |
Pega 8.8 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
Operating System |
Windows Server 2016 |
Supported (Link) |
Deprecated (Link) |
Application Server |
Apache Tomcat/8.5.91 |
Supported (Link) |
Supported (Link) |
Database |
Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production |
Supported (Link) |
Supported (Link) |
Java |
1.8.0_381 |
Supported (Link) |
Deprecated (Link) |
DBDriverName/Version |
Oracle JDBC driver/12.1.0.2.0 |
Supports: Ojdbc8.jar with JDK 8, JDK11 Ojdbc10.jar with JDK 11 (Link) |
Supports: Ojdbc8.jar with JDK 8, JDK11 Ojdbc10.jar with JDK 11 (Link) |
Embedded Hazelcast |
Supported |
Supported (Link) |
Deprecated (Link) |
Embedded Elastic Search |
Supported |
Supported (Link) |
Deprecated (Link) |
Embedded Kafka |
Supported |
Supported (Link) |
Deprecated (Link) |
Embedded Cassandra |
Supported |
Deprecated (Link) |
Deprecated (Link) |
Extended Support |
Extended support ended June 30, 2023 (Link) |
Extended support through January 31, 2025 (Link) |
Extended support through October 30, 2025 (Link) |
Deployment Type |
VM Based Deployments are Supported(Link) |
VM Based Deployments are Supported (Link) |
VM Based Deployments are Deprecated (Link) |
Thank you,
Kamesh Kuppaiah