Introduction
One of the benefits of using SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition is that updates and upgrades are applied by SAP to the systems in quite a high frequency and close to the corresponding release time.
Find the latest known schedule of Major Upgrade Windows and Weekly Maintenance Windows for 2025 in this blog.
Major Upgrade Windows
The next 2024 upgrade is scheduled for November 16th – 17th (Release 2411).
As in 2024, the SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition will have 4 Major Upgrade Windows in 2025. These 24 hours of potential system unavailability are used to upgrade the systems to the next major version.
The events for the Major Upgrade Windows are harmonized between all SAP Cloud Products and scheduled for the following weekends:
- February 15th – 16th (Release 2502)
- May 17th – 18th (Release 2505)
- August 16th – 17th (Release 2508)
- November 15th – 16th (Release 2511)
Depending on the data center region, the 24 hours downtime will start/end at:
- Europe: SAT 4 am – SUN 4 am UTC
- Americas: SAT 10 am – SUN 10 am UTC
Weekly Maintenance Windows
Potentially every weekend, the SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition could use a downtime of 4 hours, to apply database updates, Hotfix Collections and other changes.
Depending on the data center region, the 4 hours downtime may start at:
- Europe: SAT 10 pm UTC
- Americas: SUN 4 am UTC
The following events for the release 2502 are planned as Weekly Maintenance Windows in 2025:
- Hotfix Collection 4 for Release 2502 (only for systems which belong to the pre-upgrade)
February 15th – 16th, 2025 - Hotfix Collection 5 for Release 2502 | February 26th – 27th, 2025
- Hotfix Collection 6 for Release 2502 | March 15th – 16th, 2025
- Hotfix collection 7 for Release 2502 | March 29th - 30th, 2025
Cloud System Notification Subscriptions (CSNS)
Please register to Cloud System Notification Subscriptions (CSNS) to get important information about planned and unplanned downtimes:
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