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Serena Release Manager - Release Automation 5.1.1 Readme
This readme file contains information about this release. Last updated on 2014-09-17.

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About this Release

Welcome to Release Manager - Release Automation 5.1.1. See the New Features tab for a complete list of new features in this release.

About New Installations

Release Automation servers may be installed on Windows using the Release Manager installer. For situations where you need to install on UNIX/Linux or install a second server, you should use the Release Automation standalone installer. If you are installing the server using the Release Manager installer, see the Serena Release Manager Getting Started Guide.

Important:

If you are running Release Automation under JBOSS and IIS, you must ensure that WebDAV is removed from IIS on the server that hosts Release Automation. WebDAV prevents Release Automation from using critical Web service DELETE and PUT operations. For example, you cannot even apply a license in Release Automation.

To remove WebDAV, select the Web site in IIS, edit the Handler Mappings and remove WebDAV. Navigate back to the Web site Home page, edit the Modules, and remove the WebDAVModule.

If you have an existing installation that you want to upgrade, see Upgrades.

New Features

Release Automation 5.1.1 contains important enhancements and defect fixes.

To learn more about Release Automation, visit these areas:

Enhancements

The following changes were made to Release Automation 5.1.1:

  • Replication: A full set of objects can now be exported from one Release Automation server and imported into another. This enables you to replicate Release Automation objects across an air gap. For details on using replication, see the Serena Support Knowledge Base solution S140564.

Defect Fixes

Visit the Knowledge Base to see the defects fixed in this release.

Upgrades

The following upgrade paths are supported for this release:

  • If you have an existing native Release Manager installation of Release Automation version 5.1, which is installed under a JBoss application server, you can upgrade to version 5.1.1 using the Release Manager 5.1.1 installer.

    See the "Upgrades" section in the Release Manager Readme for details.

  • If you have an existing standalone installation of Release Automation version 5.1 or earlier, which is installed under a Tomcat application server, you can upgrade to version 5.1.1 using the Release Automation standalone installer.

    See the Release Automation User's Guide for details.

  • After upgrading a standalone installation of Release Automation, if you want to use it with Release Manager, you must use SBM Configurator to configure the settings Release Manager requires.

    See "Configuring Serena Release Manager" in the Release Manager Getting Started Guide for details.

Known Issues

For a complete and up-to-date list of issues found in this release of Release Automation, refer to the Knowledge Base.

Issues known to exist at the time of release are as follows:

  1. Error when importing global environments from prior Release Automation versions. (DEF256018)

    Generally export files are backward compatible, but if you run into an issue importing export files from prior versions of Release Automation, you should try upgrading the primary Release Automation server and then export the objects again. You should then be able to import them into a target server of the same version.