This section is a summary of changes in Rational Synergy 7.1 that you must take into account when planning your upgrade. These changes require additional testing beyond the testing you have done for previous releases.
This change is transparent to all users. However, Rational has provided a utility for testing your archives from 6.4, 6.5, or 7.0 to ensure that the new utilities can read them. Test that the archives are readable for all existing databases before upgrading to Synergy 7.1. Instructions for testing archives are provided in this section.
Additionally, you can use the new Web interface, Synergy Web Administration Interface, to convert old archives to the new 7.1 format. The conversion is optional in Synergy 7.1, and might result in the use of more disk space. See "Performing archive conversions" on page 65.
If you find issues when you test your archives, you can continue to use the rcs utilities from Synergy 6.5 SP2 in Synergy 7.1 by following the instructions in this section.
This change is transparent to all users and administrators. However, test existing pack files, DCM packages, and Save Offline packages that were created in a previous release to ensure that the new utilities can read those files. Instructions for testing those files are provided in this section.
This change is typically transparent to all users and administrators. However, it is possible that the results of certain merges might differ, because there are sometimes several accurate ways in which conflicts can be resolved depending on how the merge utility analyzes character patterns between files.
If you find issues when you test your data, you can continue to use the old compare and merge utilities from Synergy 6.5 SP2 in Synergy 7.1 by following the instructions in this section.