OpCon Release Schedule: What to Expect

At SMA Technologies, we want you to be informed and prepared when it comes to product updates. Our release schedule provides a predictable roadmap for OpCon enhancements, while allowing flexibility for the unexpected.

Our Release Process

Each major release follows a structured development lifecycle to ensure we deliver high-quality features and improvements. Here's a quick overview of the process:

• Ideation: Ideas are gathered from customer feedback and internal insight.

• Refinement: Ideas are reviewed, scoped, and prioritized.

• Publishing: Approved features are documented and communicated.

• Work Window: The development team builds and tests the updates.

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): About one month before each release, we conduct UAT to validate functionality and usability.

While we aim to follow the schedule closely, we recognize that flexibility is sometimes necessary to address real-world variables.

Release Timeline

Here’s a look at the upcoming release windows to help with your planning:

Cloud and On-Prem Release Cadence

As we continue future development, we’re no longer structuring OpCon updates as short-term support (STS) and long-term support (LTS) releases. Instead, cloud-hosted OpCon will receive a quarterly features release.

Self-hosted OpCon will receive an annual features release (equivalent to an LTS release), as well as quarterly maintenance releases.

We’ll continue providing hotfix support to both, and all feature releases will be supported for 36 months after their release date.