Upgrading or downgrading client packages

It is recommended to run the same version of Spotfire Analyst client and Spotfire Server in production environments. However, it is possible to connect to the server using a newer or an older client version. This facilitates upgrading or downgrading the client packages and helps ensuring that the same version is used by the clients and the selected deployment area on the server.

Note: It is possible to configure a deployment area to force the clients to automatically accept the update when they connect (rather than letting the user decide). See Adding software packages to a deployment area for more information.

It is possible to downgrade all Spotfire installations after version 7.13 back to version 7.11 LTS. For example, if you are running 10.3 LTS, you could downgrade to 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2. Note that if you downgrade to 7.12 you will not be able to downgrade from that version to 7.11 LTS, because the functionality to downgrade is not available in that version. First upgrade to a higher version than 7.12 and, from there, downgrade to 7.11 LTS if that is needed.