What is latest maintenace level for Q 2012 ? (Repost in case one did not see this buried in an earlier thread):

Looks like there's an R6 patch available that isn't mentioned in their download area and it's not in their Q2012 Release Notes.

I don't have Q12, so I'm speculating, but in a recent thread about Transaction Date Sort Order w/in the Reconcile window, John Pollard posted a link:

That page is about Budgets in Q2012.

The first sentence on the page refers to a manual update ("this update manually").

"this update manually" appears to point to an R6 install file.

If you're configured to keep your software up to date inside the One Step Update and you're still on R5, I see a couple of possibilities:

1) Intuit simply hasn't done housekeeping to get the R6 patch pushed to everyone (which doesn't sound right to me, since the Budget update is dated roughly 4 weeks ago) 2) They had to rush the budget bug fix & haven't had a chance to do a full QA on R6, so they're pointing people to it only on an as-needed basis (for folks who run into budget issues). The full QA might be planned for the R7 patch that Margaret & John mentioned, currently slated for April 18. R7 will probably include other bug fixes, too.

The true reason might be something else, but those are a couple of things I could think of.

Since the patch appears to be budget related, unless you're seeing budget issues, or someone confirms that R6 fixes another issue that you're seeing, I'd wait for whatever comes through the One Step Update method. I'm a firm believer in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy.

In software, "new" doesn't necessarily mean "improved".

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If you're configured to keep your software up to date inside the One Step Update and you're still on R5, I see a couple of possibilities:

1) Intuit simply hasn't done housekeeping to get the R6 patch pushed to everyone (which doesn't sound right to me, since the Budget update is dated roughly 4 weeks ago) 2) They had to rush the budget bug fix & haven't had a chance to do a full QA on R6, so they're pointing people to it only on an as-needed basis (for folks who run into budget issues). The full QA might be planned for the R7 patch that Margaret & John mentioned, currently slated for April 18. R7 will probably include other bug fixes, too. < snip >

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Intuit has said that it was not possible to release R6 any other way than as a manual-only patch. I don't recall the details of the explanation.

And R6 is only intended to address budget problems introduced by R5. If you're not experiencing those specific problems, of don't care about them, you can do without R6.

If Intuit sticks to their normal policy, R7 will include R6.

Say John, despite you using (?) and offering comment on the USA version of the software, thought perhaps you may know something of this . . .

I never could undestand (and could never get an answer from Intuit.ca) as to why Canadian versions of the software so rarely get an upgrade. I had 2011 and now 2012, here is the official upgrade chronology for those two versions . . . . nada:

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I never could undestand (and could never get an answer from Intuit.ca) as to why Canadian versions of the software so rarely get an upgrade.

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I have no useful insights to offer about this.

My guess is that it is strictly a business decision; a cost vs benefit decision.

OK John and Bartt - thanks for the replies. Yep, will just sit and wait. OI just didn't get it when I couldn't find R6 nor did I have it, yet others said they did. Appreciate it.