Honk Honk everyone! V13.1 is here, and with it the time-honoured sysadmin tradition: a lifecycle page in one tab, release notes in the next, then security advisories, upgrade documentation, and an ever-growing pile of KB articles. All fueled by copious amounts of coffee.
I've spent more time on that routine than I care to admit, so I did the only reasonable thing and built a website.
Upgrade Brief is an easy place to start researching a Veeam upgrade: https://upgradebrief.com
I'm posting this one of a kind idea because I hope it makes upgrade research easier for everyone here. It exists to answer one question: "What do I need to know to upgrade?".
It pulls from publicly available Veeam sources to help you find:
- Support and lifecycle information
- Documented upgrade routes, with links to the official instructions
- Relevant security advisories
- What changed in the version you're considering
It can also generate a short PDF summary if you need something easier to share with a manager or change-approval group.
To be clear about what it doesn't do: it won't inspect your environment, replace the official documentation, or tell you an upgrade is safe. You still need to read the sources and decide what applies to your environment. My goal was simply to make the starting point less painful.
It's still new, so if you try it, I'd like to know:
- Did it help?
- Was anything confusing?
- What's missing?
- Did you spot anything that looks wrong?
Thanks in advance for any feedback, including the blunt kind.
