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With SAPUI5 and OpenUI5 we provide two deliveries of our UI development toolkit. Both are very closely related, but have their differences.

As of SAPUI5 1.6 there is a close coupling of SAPUI5 core/runtime and SAPUI5 tools: It is required that within a running system both have the same version, that is, have the same major and minor version.

The following sections describe what you have to consider when upgrading to a new version of SAPUI5.

The following sections describe what SAP can change in major, minor, and patch releases. Always consider these rules when developing apps, features, or controls with or for SAPUI5.

SAPUI5 provides a set of JavaScript and CSS libraries, which can be combined in an application using the combinations that are supported.

As SAPUI5 evolves over time, some of the UI controls are replaced by others, or their concepts abandoned entirely. This chapter gives an overview on theme and library level of the most important deprecations. Individual control deprecations and more information about the controls replacing them can be found in the API reference within the Demo Kit.

This sections describes which browsers and platforms are supported by the various SAPUI5 libraries.

The SAPUI5 documentation is included in the Demo Kit. The Demo Kit also provides you with technical documentation and samples. There are also platform-specific variants of the documentation available at other locations.

This part of the documentation gives you guidance on the most common and recommended use cases of the installation, configuration and setup of the UI development toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) development environment.