Release planning – What´s new, maintenance, releases and end of life – AEB Help Center

AEB software and involved components are continuously changing and being developed further. This article summarizes the relevant, up-to-date information.

Overview of new features
Release planning of all products
Release planning for operating environments
End of support for operating environments and third-party software
Supported releases of SAP® solutions
Current system requirements

Overview of new features

AEB has summarized the most important new features of the current release of all products for you.
Get an overview here.

Release planning of all products

Here you will find information on changes and updates from the areas:

The terms used in therelease planning are briefly explained here:

Active maintenance
Necessary functional adjustments will be implemented. Reported or internally found malfunctions will be patched as part of the active maintenance by means of standard service packs . AEB will provide the necessary information.
For on-premises installations, it is the obligation of the customer to install the service packs/releases provided by AEB and keep them up to date. If the customer does not comply with this obligation, it will not be able to use the services and support according to the General Terms and Conditions for Support.
Passive maintenance
Malfunctions, if reported, will be corrected. In justified and exceptional cases, standard service packs will be provided. It is recommended to schedule a release change.
Maintenance discontinued/EoL (End of Life)
New standard service packs will not be made available anymore.

Release planning for operating environments

MSSQL Server As a Service under Azure currently in evaluation

End of life

End of support for operating environments and third-party software

With the February 2025 service pack, Oracle databases prior to 12c and MS SQL Server prior to 2012 are no longer supported
AEB will not support Windows 11 for ASSIST4 on premises
End of support for Sybase SQL Anywhere database for trade compliance products with import of February 2024 service pack. This only applies to systems operated on premise.
End of support for PDF preparation on 32-bit clients with ASSIST4 as from 2023
End of support for Internet Explorer as from 2022
MSSQL Server 2008 RS Service Pack 2
AEB will no longer support the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database as from May 1, 2021.
Old versions of operating systems, Oracle databases, and MS SQL servers are only supported as long as they are still supported by the manufacturer.
For SAP® releases the following regulation applies.

Current system requirements

For the current requirements of your AEB application, please refer to the product-specific AEB Cloud System Requirements or On-Premises Installation System Requirements.