QuickBooks Desktop periodically provides maintenance releases and product (software) updates to fix known issues, add features and enhancements, and update compliance information. For QuickBooks Desktop to function as designed, you must use the most recent product update or release version.What are Critical Fixes (aka ULIP)?ULIP (Ultra Light Patch) is a feature in QuickBooks Desktop where minor critical fixes can be delivered without the need for an actual release patch. The patch release process will continue as is (R releases such as 2014 R3). The benefit of these is that we can deliver fixes sooner rather than waiting for the scheduled release patch.
See QuickBooks Critical Fixes updates (ULIP) for more information.