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Maintenance Types
Learn about maintenance types and how to prepare for them.
Salesforce release maintenance delivers new features and enhancements, while system maintenance ensures that the backend is stable and secure. Identifying the type of maintenance helps you prepare for a smooth recovery.
| Release Maintenance | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Major release | Updates your org with the latest version of Salesforce. Occurs approximately three times a year. | Prepare for Salesforce Releases |
| Patch release | Deploys changes and fixes weekly and as needed. | |
| Daily release | Deploys emergency fixes as needed. |
| System Maintenance | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Org migration | Moves your org to a new instance to balance capacity, to improve performance, and to meet data residency requirements. | Salesforce Org Migrations Overview |
| Instance refresh | Moves all orgs on an instance to another instance. The original instance is then retired. center. | Instance Refresh Maintenance |
| Site switch | Moves your org from its active instance to the ready instance for disaster recovery testing and validation. | Optimized Site Switching Overview & FAQ |
| Database | Updates to improve the database's infrastructure performance and security. |
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