Sas 9.4m8 - [portable]

: Standard Support for SAS 9.4M8 is scheduled to end on February 1, 2028 .

M8 marked the retirement of several long-standing SAS products, which is a critical consideration for existing deployments: sas 9.4m8

cas mySession; session mySession timeout=3600; /* 1 hour */ : Standard Support for SAS 9

The most significant shift in M8 is the removal of older, bundled third-party components in favor of modern, system-provided libraries. Java Upgrade : Migrates the private Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to (mainframes continue to use Java 8). Cryptographic Libraries : No longer bundles OpenSSL; it now uses the host operating system’s OpenSSL libraries for SAS Foundation. Web Server Updates session mySession timeout=3600

For SAS programmers who’ve been using SAS 9.4M7’s Studio 3.x, the jump to 5.2 is transformative.