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THE_BLUE
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Jan 16, 2021

F5 upgrade to last release

I'm using F5 version 13.4 and I'm planning to upgrade, so which version you recommend ? and is there any change in irule from version 13 to version 16 ? or is there any affect ?
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16 is not log term support, when you are planning to upgrade you should pick 13.1.x / 14.1.x / 15.1.x for LTS... you can upgrade to 15.1.2 and request engineer hotfix for the critical issues

 

BIG-IP software support policy

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K5903

 

supported BIG-IP upgrade paths

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13845

 

regarding iRule, should monitor them after upgrade , i dont know if irules incompatibility between BIG-IP version

 

Br,

Mohanad

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THE_BLUE
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Jan 17, 2021

So is that mean version 15.1.2 is the best choice ?

and is it possible to upgrade directly ?

example :

To upgrade from 13.4 to 15.1.2 , we have to upgrade from 13.4 to 14 then from 14 to 15 ? or we can jump to 15 !