Microsoft product group has released cumulative
update 6 for BizTalk 2016 on 28th Feb 2019.
Below are the highlights to be noted.
- As always cumulative update contains all the previous updates in a given BizTalk version. So if you have just installed and configured BizTalk 2016, you can directly install CU6. But if you have a running production server with some other CU version, it is always recommended to test the new CU in a lower environment before installing in production.
- Each cumulative hotfix package includes all the component packages. However, a cumulative update package updates only those components that are installed on the system.
- If you use the MQSeries adapter, MQSAgent.dll must be updated on the IBM WebSphere MQ server to the same cumulative update level that's on BizTalk Server. To do this, make sure that you run the same cumulative update setup on the IBM WebSphere MQ server. You may experience performance issues if you run mismatched versions.
- Most highlighted improvement at adapter level I believe is read-only download options for SFTP adapter in BizTalk Server. This was a request from many customers for quite long time.
- When you download files from the read-only SFTP Server, the SFTP adapter is not able to work with the files that have been already downloaded as in each polling interval files are downloaded again. This improvement adds the following options to the SFTP adapter, Delete After Download which specify whether the adapter deletes a file from the FTP server after you download it, Enable Timestamp comparison which specify whether the adapter downloads a file again based on its modified timestamp and Redownload Interval which specify the interval after which the adapter downloads files again if both Delete After Download and Enable Timestamp Comparison are set to "No".
I just started working with the new CU, will keep updating the review.