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What Tridion fixes have been applied?

What is the most reliable method for determining which Tridion fixes have been applied to the system (other than the previous release documentation itself)?

In particular, I would like to know about SDL Tridion 2009, but it will also be interesting to know if it is different from SDL Tridion 2011.

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The most reliable method is to track those fixes that you installed manually. For example, putting each zip patch in a directory on the server and working from there.

It is more likely that working with each system (and not just with one setting today) depends on a combination of file versions, manifest files (in banks), file sizes, and file timestamps. They are in decreasing order of preference.

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In the CM web interface, if you click on the SDL Tridion logo in the upper right corner, you will get a pop-up window with information about the general version. If you click "details" (and wait a few seconds), you will get a list of all CM files with versions and timestamps that you can use to compare with the fixes and determine if they are installed or not. This works in all recent versions of Tridion (5.x and higher).

CD, you will need to watch files directly, but usually there are much fewer files to check on the side of the CD.

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You can use the following community extension to manage your hot fixes. https://www.sdltridionworld.com/community/2011_extensions/HotfixManager.aspx

This will not help you find fixes that are already being applied. This is largely due to the comments of Puf and Nuno. When you install your patches, you must install using the extension so that it tracks patches. We used it in Dev / QA and tested it, but have not yet used it in production (we plan to use it).

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