How to Update Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 with Cumulative Update Packages
Microsoft releases cumulative update (CU) packages for AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server. Each cumulative update package contains all of the fixes that were released in previous update packages for both cache server and cache client. At the time of this writing there are 7 cumulative update packages that have been released:
Cumulative update package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
Cumulative update package 2 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
Cumulative update package 3 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
Cumulative update package 4 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
Cumulative update package 5 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
Cumulative update package 6 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
Cumulative update package 7 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
These are the AppFabric 1.1 cache dll versions Microsoft has released:
RTM: 1.0.4632 (29-Nov-2011)
CU1: 1.0.4639 (20-Feb-2012)
CU2: 1.0.4644 (29-May-12)
CU3: 1.0.4652.2 (27-Nov-2012)
CU4: 1.0.4653.2 (28-Mar-2013)
CU5: 1.0.4655.2 (03-Mar-2014)
CU6: 1.0.4656.2 (27-Feb-2015)
CU7: 1.0.4657.2 (01-Sept-2015)
CU3 and later versions including CU7 require .NET Framework 4.5 on cache servers as documented on the KBs. However .NET 4.5 is not a prerequisite on cache clients to use client binaries in CU3, CU4, CU5, CU6 and CU7.
You can search for AppFabric cumulative update packages at https://support.microsoft.com for the phrase (including the quotes):
"cumulative update package" appfabric
The following query does this search for you. Choose the latest one:
Comments
Anonymous
May 11, 2014
CU5 released in March. Not even a blog post about it to notify? support.microsoft.com/.../2932678Anonymous
May 12, 2014
Hi Philipp, thanks for the comment. I have updated the blog to include CU5.Anonymous
July 20, 2014
Is AppFabric compatible with MS SQL Server 2014? Cannot find any official document about it.