I received a new CDROM from Protogate, with a new version of the Freeway software. Should I upgrade?
We generally like customers to upgrade, but we understand that where a Freeway is performing a critical role in a production environment, the risks of downtime make upgrading unwelcome. In other environments (such as a development lab), however, keeping your Freeway upgraded to the latest Freeway software version will provide you with the latest features and bugfixes, and will help us to support you better. If you are still undecided, learning what features and bugfixes you will gain by upgrading to the new version may help you decide. If you insert your new Freeway CDROM into any machine with a web browser, you can find the release notes and the release notes history (or take the plain text versions of those files directly from the root of the CDROM; they are the files “relnotes.ser” and “relhist.ser”). Those files will describe the changes that were made since the Freeway version that you are currently running, and should help you decide whether you would benefit from upgrading. (To
