{"id":710,"date":"2009-07-20T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:56:56","slug":"release-notes-are-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/release-notes-are-your-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Release notes are your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me the most valuable documents produced by EMC in relation to NetWorker or the modules are the Release Notes. These accompany any cited version update and typically contain at least the following chunks of information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New features to the product<\/li>\n<li>Changes to existing behaviour<\/li>\n<li>Fixed problems<\/li>\n<li>Known issues and limitations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This information is <em>gold<\/em>. To anyone thinking of updating either a NetWorker server or a NetWorker module who isn&#8217;t planning on thoroughly reading the release notes first I say this: <em>are you nuts?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the first to admit that I don&#8217;t re-read the administration guides every time they are updated. There&#8217;s just too much content in them. Instead, I rely on the release notes to tell me what has been added, and if any of that is relevant to my needs, I go searching through the administration guides for said information. In fact, I consider the release notes important enough that they&#8217;re the only NetWorker documentation I ever print. Why do I print them? Because it means I can take them away from the computer and go sit down and read them carefully \u2013 very carefully.<\/p>\n<p>The release notes don&#8217;t always contain all information about an update. 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