For every release of the HxGN NetWorks Utilities product family, a base suite of automated tests and a set of manual workflow tests are performed before the release is made available to customers. The scope of testing depends on the nature of the release; major releases with architectural changes undergo the most thorough certification.
With every product release, care is taken to minimize the effect to existing configuration and customization that is in production use at customer sites. When new configurable functionality is introduced, defaults are set, whenever possible, to maintain previous behavior. Configuration wizards are provided to step administrators through configuration decisions. Regarding customization, backward compatibility with the previous version’s API is maintained so that existing custom code runs after product upgrades. In the few cases where backward compatibility is not possible because of technological constraints, effects and recommended resolutions are documented in the HxGN NetWorks Utilities | Shell Web Release Notes.
Since this is the first release no compatibility matrix is available.