Dave,
Couple of things. First, depending on how long 'near future' is, you might want to hold off on upgrading until 2015.1 is released (it's currently slated to ship before the end of June, and we are planning a public beta before that). Alongside the public beta of 2015.1, we're planning on having all of our documentation available (and searchable!) online on the site. This will make it MUCH easier to quickly look something up in the User Guide or SDK documentation, for sure. Not quite sure of the drop date for that, but it's not too far out.
Hope that helps!
Mike Drummelsmith - Director, Developer Relations (@AKMikeD)