Announcing the General Availability of Purity//FA 6.5.11 LLR
We are happy to announce the general availability of 6.5.11, the twelfth release in the 6.5 Long-Life Release (LLR) line! This release line is based on the feature set introduced in 6.4, providing long-term consistency in capabilities, user experience, and interoperability, with the latest fixes and security updates.
This 6.5 LLR line has demonstrated sufficient accumulated runtime data to be recommended for critical customer workloads and has been declared Enterprise Ready (ER) effective with the 6.5.3 release.
For more detailed information about bug fixes and security updates included in each release, see the release notes.
UPGRADE RECOMMENDATIONS AND EOL SCHEDULE
We recommend customers already running 6.5 who are looking for the latest fixes and updates to upgrade to this long-life release. When possible, customers should make use of Self-Service Upgrades (SSU) to ease the process of planning and executing non-disruptive Purity upgrades for their fleet.
The 6.5 LLR line is planned for development through September 2026.
HARDWARE SUPPORT
This release is supported on the following FlashArray Platforms: FA//M (R2), FA//X, FA//C, and FA//XL.
Note, DFS software version 2.2.3 is recommended with this release.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank everyone within the engineering, support, technical program management, product management, product marketing, finance and technical product specialist teams who contributed to this release.
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