ADVANCED NOTICE: Plan for the July 2020 International Edition release, in relation to the March 2020 Interim release

Dear all,

Following on from the March 2020 Interim International Edition release, we are proposing the following plan for the July 2020 International release, in order to support all users, whether or not they consumed the March 2020 Interim release.

July 2020 International Edition Release format

The current plan is to publish the formal July 2020 International Edition with the March 2020 Interim release as the official "previous published release". 

This means that all COVID-19 content published in the March 2020 release will be present in both July 2020 Snapshot and Full files, with an effectiveTime of 20200309.  The Delta files will be relative to March 2020, containing only new content from the July 2020 editing cycle, and will not duplicate the Delta file content from the March 2020 release.

Please see the early visibility page here for full details of these and other changes for upcoming releases:  July 2020 Early Visibility Release Notice - Planned changes to upcoming SNOMED International Release packages

PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FEEDBACK ON THIS PROPOSAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, IN ORDER TO FACILITATE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING FOR THE JULY 2020 RELEASE - thanks!

Kind regards

Andrew Atkinson