What release version of WestlawNext is deployed?

mark.maruska

How can I tell which release version (e.g., Release 11, Iteration 6) is currently deployed to WestlawNext PROD?

Bob Christiansen

The links above only give you the build number for website. This is not all of the information for all of the verticals. If you want to know about all of the verticals for all products and all enviromentments you should use the following report site:
http://tfsnpt.int.thomson.com/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=/Cobalt+Central/Cobalt+App+Reports/ReleaseSetDeploymentHistory Once on this site select the enviroment and product (WLN or SharedPlatform). This will then give you a release set listing for a specific date range. It will tell you which one is current one deployed. If you click on the release set number it will give you a listing of the version of every module within the release set. Alternatively you can use the report at
http://tfsnpt.int.thomson.com/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=/Cobalt+Central/Cobalt+App+Reports/Deployment_Current to select specific environments and specific modules to see the current status

mark.maruska

You can get the release, iteration and build number from the manifest file. This is available in every environment. For example, you may be interested to know which build is currently deployed in CI. - PROD: [
https://1.next.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml](https://1.next.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml) - HotProd: [
http://1.next.hotprod.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml](http://1.next.hotprod.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml) - QED: [
http://1.next.qed.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml](http://1.next.qed.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml) - DEMO: [
http://1.next.demo.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml](http://1.next.demo.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml) - CI: [
http://1.next.ci.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml](http://1.next.ci.westlaw.com/Manifest.xml) This displays the Manifest.xml like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Copyright 2009: Thomson Reuters Global Resources. All Rights Reserved.
 Proprietary and Confidential information of TRGR.
 Disclosure, Use or Reproduction without the written authorization of TRGR is prohibited. -->
<Vertical>
  <BuildNumber>11.6.1005</BuildNumber>
  <!-- Update this value when you change the Vertical API.  The Vertical API is used to determine what features you support.-->
  <VerticalAPI>1.0.0</VerticalAPI>
  <!-- The VerticalCache build will update this version number at VerticalCache build time. -->
  <CacheVersion>11.3.0</CacheVersion>
</Vertical>

Andrew Gerber

I did not know that this file existed Thanks for posting!

Ryan Morlok

Thanks for posting this Mark, I've already used it a couple times.

mark.maruska

ReleaseSetDeploymentHistory is great! And you're right, clicking the release set number then shows the actual build number for every module. Perfect!

brian.schuweiler

FYI: Looks like those tfs report links only work in IE

Matt Schroeder

[Cobalt MetaTool][1] can provide this information as well as Deploy Information for each module in WLN (or any product). When on the homepage of MetaTool, click the 'Modules, Libraries & Code' tile to navigate to the modules page. You can then either search on the left hand side for a module (ex. Website) or just locate it in the right pane. If you expand a row, you will see all environments that the module is in. Click on one of these to open a modal dialog with advanced information for the module. The information includes it's product family, module type, platform, release set info, hosting servers, as well as other things. Some information is only available in certain environments. More information on the MetaTool can be found [here][2]. [1]:
http://legaltechtools.int.thomsonreuters.com/CobaltMetaTool [2]:
https://thehub.thomsonreuters.com/docs/DOC-805014