If you would like to understand what are solutions and how to use them please visit my previous two posts where I talk about How to create a solution and how to create a solution patch. In this post we will see how we can merge the patches we created and create a Major version update of the solution for release.
To start off we will create another patch on top of the existing 9.1.0.0 base solution and the patch 9.1.1.0
To create another patch, select the base solution and click on Clone a Patch
This will create the second patch and versioning will stay in order
To create a major release we will follow what is called the cloning process. The good thing about following the patch approach and sticking to the recommended versioning is that our cloning will merge all patches together along with the base solution when we create a major version. In order to do so we will select the base solution, in this case 9.1.0.0 and click on Clone Solution
As we can this time the process recommends the next major version which is 9.2.0.0 instead of 9.1.3.0. When we click save the base solution and all patches will be merged automatically and we will end up with a single solution versioned as 9.2.0.0 this will be the solution we export in order to do a version upgrade at the managed box end (more on that in later posts)
To read more on patches please visit, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/customize/use-segmented-solutions-patches-simplify-updates
Mohsin Khalid 
[…] This is a final post in the solution deployment series and we will see how we can upgrade the solution that we created in my previous posts. If you would like to understand what are solutions and how to use them please visit my previous three posts where I talked about How to create a solution, how to create a solution patch and how to merge solution patches together. […]
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