Spotfire Server and Spotfire clients are not showing identical version numbers

Created
October 08, 2021 23:15

Date Posted: 2020-04-28
Product: TIBCO Spotfire®

Problem:

Solution:

When installing the latest official releases of Spotfire Server and client, the version number differ and the hotfix version is missing for the Spotfire Server. The reason why the Spotfire server and client are not showing the identical version numbers is because starting with Spotfire Server version 10.3 there are only Service packs delivered for Spotfire Server, for Spotfire clients hotfixes are still delivered .

For the version number, the 3rd number represents service packs. For example:

Spotfire client 10.3.3 HF-015
Spotfire Server 10.3.7

The 3rd number shows that the client is on Service pack 3, while the Server is on Service pack 5. In addition to this, you will also see the hotfix version installed on clients. In this example, the Spotfire client is on hotfix 12. The Server is not showing any hotfix number, because there are no hotfixes delivered for it.

On https://community.tibco.com/wiki/list-hotfixes-tibco-spotfire-server you can read the following:

"NOTE: Starting with releases from May 2018, the process for upgrading to Service Packs (such as 10.3.0 to 10.3.1) is the same as upgrading to new versions (such as 10.3.0 to 10.4.0) - for upgrade instructions, please refer to the section “Upgrading from Spotfire 7.5 or later” in the TIBCO Spotfire Server manual. After upgrading to the latest Service Pack, you only need to apply any hotfixes available for that Service Pack version."

Please read more about our latest hotfix and Service packs releases here:
https://community.tibco.com/wiki/overview-hotfixes-tibco-spotfire

Keywords: version number, hotfix, spotfire server, spotfire client