Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4(23) 数据汇总
Product Bulletin
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Cisco IOS Software General Deployment (GD)
Program Retirement
Program Retirement
Last updated: January 2008
Overview
This product bulletin announces the immediate retirement of the General Deployment (GD)
program for Cisco IOS Software. GD will not be applied to any future Cisco IOS Software
maintenance releases or rebuilds starting from Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4. The Limited
Deployment (LD) release designation is also being retired.
Cisco is demonstrating its commitment to address the needs of its customers by evolving and
expanding design oriented testing capabilities for Cisco’s software portfolio and corresponding
supported hardware platforms. The GD program only applied to Release 12.3* (and prior
versions).
The retirement of the GD program has no impact on Cisco’s release delivery process, rigorous
software testing requirements, or quality and stability of Cisco IOS Software. The expansion of
Cisco’s solution and design focused testing efforts allows us to more proactively and effectively
implement comprehensive testing for better software integrity.
Key Details
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Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 (and later maintenance releases or rebuilds) images on
the Cisco.com Software Center
http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/index.shtml
will have
a new Maintenance Deployment (MD) release designator. The MD release designator
defines Cisco IOS Software releases that provide bugfix support and ongoing software
maintenance. This release designator change will be completed by May, 2008.
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Existing GD and LD release designations for Cisco IOS Software Release 12.3* images
currently on Cisco.com Software Center are not affected by this announcement.
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Cisco IOS Software release designations of Early Deployment (ED) and Deferral (DF) are
not affected by this announcement.
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This announcement applies to Cisco IOS Software only.
Release Recommendations and Test Programs
Over time, Cisco has implemented a number of product, solution, and system testing programs
which provide customers a more complete and robust set of solutions and designs that utilize
Cisco’s comprehensive IOS release portfolio (Release 12.4, 12.4T, 12.2S family) and hardware
platforms. These offerings incorporate a wide range of Cisco IOS Software technologies, services
(examples: data, voice, and security), and hardware into a broad portfolio of infrastructure-based
solutions to meet end-to-end service requirements.