Update Your First-Generation Managed Package

Your app is ready for an update. Learn how to fix small issues with patches and make major changes with upgrades.

• Package Versions in First-Generation Managed Packages

  A package version is a number that identifies the set of components uploaded in a package. The version number has the format majorNumber.minorNumber.patchNumber (for example, 2.1.3).

• Create and Upload Patches in First-Generation Managed Packages

  Patch versions are developed and maintained in a patch development org.

• Work with Patch Versions

  A patch version enables a developer to change the functionality of existing components in a managed package. Subscribers experience no visible changes to the package. Patches are minor upgrades to a Managed - Released package and only used for fixing bugs or other errors.

• Versioning Apex Code

  When subscribers install multiple versions of your package and write code that references Apex classes or triggers in your package, they must specify the version that they’re referencing.

• Apex Deprecation Effects for Subscribers

  Explore how deprecation of an Apex method impacts subscribers that install your managed package.