EPM Planning monthly patch skip

Summary: the ability to use the patch skip to implement a quarterly patch cycle for EPM Planning

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We received the update below in the December monthly EPM patch. this appears to suggest that we can use the skip function to implement a quarterly patch test cycle. 

Our managed service provider advised that you cannot skip the update on Test and only on prod so If you skip the update for only one of your environments (for example, you skip update on the production environment but not on the test environment) for three months, your environments will be three versions apart. You may not be able to migrate snapshots across these environments in such a scenario. For example, assume that your test and production environments are currently on 23.12, and that you skip the updates for versions 24.01, 24.02, and 24.03 for the production environment only. When