Update Policy

For new features and breaking changes we create a new minor release of metal-stack. For every minor release we present excerpts of the changes in a corresponding blog article published on metal-stack.io.

It is not strictly necessary to cycle through the patch releases if you depend on the pure metal-stack components. However, it is important to go through all the patch releases and apply all required actions from the release notes. Therefore, we recommend to just install every patch release one by one in order to minimize possible problems during the update process.

In case you depend on the Gardener integration, especially when using metal-stack roles for deploying Gardener, we strongly recommend installing every patch release version. We increment our Gardener dependency version by version following the Gardener update policy. Jumping versions may lead to severe problems with the installation and should only be done if you really know what you are doing.