What is a Hot Fix?

During a release life cycle, Dassault Systèmes provides fix packs to fix issues or deliver new and enhanced features. A fix pack is a package of components called hot fixes (referred to as HF in the rest of this section). Do not confuse updating using HFs with upgrading. Upgrading means moving to the next GA level.

Updating the 3DEXPERIENCE platform involves installing all the HFs in a given fix pack and impacting the 3DEXPERIENCE platform components already installed.

This is the only way to guarantee that they will be compliant with each other. Therefore, this is the only supported configuration.

The HF media must always be installed in the same directory as the GA version.

A HF installation is always performed in "delta" mode. This means that the HF media does not contain all files: it contains only the files that are different from the previous HF or from the GA level of the same version.

HFs are cumulative : there is no need to install all HF versions until the required HF version. For example, it is possible to install the GA, then HF3, then HF5 (without installing the intermediary HF1, HF2 and HF4 hot fixes).