Genesys change management and communications about changes is pretty terrible, it's probably the largest downside of the entire platform. We've complained to our reps about it and I've posted to the forums, with only minimal change (mostly our reps taking it on themselves to communicate directly with us because they know we're annoyed.)
Given some of the most recent screwups and the lack of any transparency on what they're actually doing to fix it moving forward, I wouldn't hold out too much hope that things will improve. Your best bet is to get on very early on release day and poke around and see what's changed/broken that isn't in the release notes and then get ready to push internal comms/documentation ASAP.
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Duncan Maloch
Sonic.net
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