Captiva 7.1 and Patches Available

Captiva 7.1 was released 12/9/2013. Check the download site.

In addition, EMC has announced a new patch policy for Captiva. Starting with Patch 11 (which encompasses Captiva 6.5 and Captiva 7), patched software is now available on the download site. Previous Captiva patches had to be requested.

Captiva Patch List

I was trolling through the EMC Support site and found this:  List of Released Patches for Captiva InputAccel, Dispatcher, InputAccel for Invoices, eInput and FormWare Published: October 31, 2013.

This document covers Captiva 6.5SP1, 6.5SP2, and 7.0.  Interestingly, there is no mention of 6.5SP3 (Perhaps it has no patches?), and no indication as to whether the service packs contain a roll up of all previous patches.  Also, the only way to get the patched software is to contact EMC Support directly, they don’t offer a publicly available download site for Captiva patches.

Content Server Build Numbers

Here is a list of build numbers for the Content Server dating all the way back to version 5.2.5.  I have listed the OS/database platform combinations I can confirm.  I suspect in most cases, the build numbers are the same across all OS/database combinations.  However, there are some interesting anomalies,  for example: v5.3 has a separate build for Sun5/Oracle.  My guess is that the 5.3.0.115 code line was recompiled to address a bug/patch in either Sun5 or Oracle.  Then there is the discrepancy with v6.0 and v6.5.  These build numbers vary greatly for identical versions and platforms.  What’s going on here?  I have no explanation (or guess) for these anomalies, but am very curious.

Version	Build Number	OS/Database Platforms
5.2.5	5.2.5.72	Win32.Oracle/AIX.DB2
5.2.5 SP1	5.2.5.125 SP1	Win32.Oracle/AIX.DB2
5.2.5 SP2	5.2.5.225 SP2	Win32.SQLServer/AIX.Oracle
5.2.5 SP4	5.2.5.414 SP4	Win32.SQLServer
5.3	5.3.0.115 5.3.0.117	Win32.Oracle/Linux.Oracle/Win32.SQLServer sun5.Oracle
5.3 SP1	5.3.0.143 SP1	Win32.Oracle/Win32.SQLServer/Linux.Oracle
5.3 SP2	5.3.0.214 SP2	sun5.Oracle/AIX.Oracle/HPUX.Oracle/Win32.Oracle/Win32.SQLServer
5.3 SP3	5.3.0.315 SP3	HPUX.Oracle/sun5.Oracle/Win32.Oracle/Win32.SQLServer/Linux.Oracle
5.3 SP4	5.3.0.413 SP4	Win32.Oracle/sun5.Oracle/Win32.SQLServer
5.3 SP5	5.3.0.510 SP5	Win32.SQLServer/sun5.Oracle/Linux.Oracle/AIX.Oracle
5.3 SP6	5.3.0.622 SP6	Win32.SQLServer/Win32.Oracle)
6.0	6.0.0.077 6.0.0.114 6.0.0.172	Win32.SQLServer Win32.SQLServer Win32.Oracle
6.0 SP1	6.0.0.116 SP1	AIX.OracleWin32.Oracle
6.5	6.5.0.033 6.5.0.059	Win32.Oracle Win32.Oracle
6.5 SP1	6.5.0.117 SP1	Win32.SQLServer/Win32.Oracle
6.5 SP2	6.5.0.221 SP2	Win32.SQLServer/Win32.Oracle
6.5 SP3	6.5.0.322 SP3 6.5.0.355 SP3 P1100	HPUX.Oracle Linux.Oracle
6.6	6.6.0.041	Win32.SQLServer
6.7 SP1	6.7.1000.0038	Win64.SQLServer
6.7 SP1 P10	6.7.1100.0181	Win64.Oracle
6.7 SP1 P11	6.7.1110.0195	Win32.SQLServer
6.7 SP2	6.7.2000.0039	Win32.SQLServer
6.7 SP2 P01	6.7.2010.0046	Win32.SQLServer
7.0	7.0.0000.0510	Win64.SQLServer
7.0 P06	7.0.0060.0557	Win64.SQLServer
7.1	7.1.0000.0151	Linux.Oracle

The table is missing a few entries (e.g., 6.7, and 5.2.5 SP3) as well as some OS/database combinations. If you can help fill out the table I would appreciate it. Send me your confirmed build numbers and OS/database combinations and I will update the table.  (The easiest way to determine the build number of your Content Server is to look at the first few lines of the server log.)

UPDATE:  Here is a link that explains version numbers, patch numbers, and build numbers for Content Server 6.5 SP2 and above:  https://support.emc.com/kb/116462

This is the general heuristic for “decoding” the version numbers.

6.7.1100.0181
6.7	1	100	0181
major.minor version	SP	patch 10 with right-padded 0	build number