Installation and upgrade notes

Notes on installation and upgrade for release 2025 (13.0).

Scope

Updates to technical requirements, disk space demands, and enhancements to the loss file upgrade.

Notes

For detailed information on updates which affect both Touchstone and Touchstone Re, refer to the following documents, available on the Client Portal:

Touchstone 2025 Release Documentation
Touchstone Re 2025 Release Documentation

Items of particular note include:

Technical Specification
System Recommendations
Installation Guide
SQL Server Documentation
HPC Documentation

Touchstone-specific updates

See "Notes" above.

Touchstone Re-specific updates

This release includes changes to support updated geographies and/or lines of business that require upgrades to legacy company loss sets (CLF and CLA). Running the Loss File Upgrade Utility is a separate step that is important to be completed as part of the annual 2025 software update. Details on running this utility are included in the Installation Guide available on the release landing page.

Also see "Notes" above.