CapaWinUpgrade 5.1 - Release Notes

Released on November 19, 2021 - Updated on August 24, 2023

To fully utilize CapaWinUpgrade, endpoints must be able to communicate with the CapaOne API.

New Features

None

Improvements

The “Push Upgrade” package works as the “Upgrade” package did before.

The “Publish Upgrade” package doesn’t prompt the end-user to start the upgrade, but still shows a warning prompt, telling the end-user to close all their applications, etc.

A new “Force Upgrade” package has been added. The package doesn't prompt the end-user before starting the upgrade, and doesn’t show any warning prompts.

A new “Force Upgrade with Reboot” package has been added. The package acts the same way as the “Force Upgrade” package, but also allows reboot(s) during the initial upgrade phase.

The “Force Upgrade with Reboot” package could cause the service to lose control of the upgrade phases, and the installation screen might not function properly.

The free disk space requirement has been raised from 10 GB to 15 GB. The check for free disk space is only executed during the “PreUpgrade” phase in the “Upgrade” packages.

Software based printers from Microsoft are now uninstalled before running the compatibility scan. Previously, the compatibility scan returned an error when incompatible software based printers were installed.

Technical Stuff

The search for a custom content package did not find a match. CapaWinUpgradeLib has been updated to support variables with major and minor Windows versions.

Known Issues

Setting gbDebug=True will break the logging functionality
We have deployed a “Silent Upgrade” package through the Cloud Updater by mistake. The package was deployed on May 17, 2022 between 8 AM and 9 PM. Please delete the package if it exists in your CapaInstaller installation. Thank you.

Download and Upgrade

As soon as you run the “Cloud Updater” package on your server, after November 19, 2021, the new CapaWinUpgrade 5.1 files will be available in your environment.

It doesn’t require any implementation if you already have a previous version of CapaWinUpgrade.

Support

When raising an incident regarding CapaWinUpgrade, please attach the following log files, from the C:\Program Files\CapaInstaller\Client\Logs folder on the workstation.

CapaInstaller Agent.log
CapaInstaller Agent.exe.log
CapaInstaller BaseAgent.log
CapaInstaller Stub.log
CapaWinUpgrade*.log
CapaWinUpgrade (entire folder)

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