Are there any update cycles that need to be taken into consideration?

Many products are on a regular update cycle, which means that bug fixes, and also new features, are rolled out at regular intervals. In order to ensure that the version used during the study is stable, the UX researcher needs to know when updates are planned, and ideally, run the study between these update cycles. It might also be an option to skip an update cycle. In either case, it is pertinent to address this issue and agree on how to deal with it.