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Warning

License Statistics v7.0 no longer supports the deprecated MySQL v8.0 database. Make sure to follow the proper update procedure matching your scenario.

More details about migrating For help troubleshooting any issues with migration to MySQL v8.4 can be found on the , see Upgrading to MySQL 8.4 page.

Info

With License Statistics v7.0, we introduce have introduced a new support policy, which includes support for 8 eight minor versions and all their bugfix versions back. It prior to the current version. The support policy applies to: 

  • installers' availability on the download portal
  • supporting direct updates using the installers (MSI, RPM, and DEB)
  • supporting database server versions to only those that are currently supported by their vendor
  • supporting data migrations
  • providing phone and online help by our Support Team

As a part of introducing a this new policy, as of License Statistics v7.0, installers before released prior to License Statistics v6.18 will not be available on the download portal, except those required to provide a migration chain from older versions. 

More details can be found on Updating License Statistics.

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Issue #Description

only for Licensing Models 

Licensing Models 2019 and 2025

 LICSTAT-23445

 Licensing  Introduction of Licensing Model 2025:

  • flat Flat subscription licensing
  • pay Pay for what you use
  • 1 Simplified licensing with one user limit factor: unique usernames monitored in the last 30 days
  • free Free historical reports reports 
  • unlimited Unlimited number of monitored license servers, daemons, and hosts
  • easyEasy, temporary, or permanent license extensions
  • Standard and Pro plans to fit your needs better
  • individual Individual migration program
  • no No more data loss: new Grace Period and Light Restricted Access Mode introduced to continue monitoring in case states allow for continued monitoring when the license limit is exceeded 

Tip

The old licensing models (2013 and 2019) are still available to customers for a limited time, as described in License Transition.


 LICSTAT-20206

Newly designed dashboards allow for individual, permanent dashboard collections per user, independent of device and browser performance improvements. The new dashboard capabilities let you:

  • Define an unlimited number of dashboards

  • Use

 New dashboards

  • multiple dashboards

    • pre-defined templates

  • scopes (private and public)
  • sharing with a dedicated link
  • read-only view of shared dashboards

    • to help you create new dashboards quickly and easily

    • Designate dashboards as either private or public

    • Share dashboards throughout your organization using a dedicated link that provides a read-only version of the dashboard

    • Easily manage your dashboards

    dashboard management

    • , including creation, modification, removal, and

    cloning

    • copying

    adding

    • Add new widgets (pinnable charts, reports, etc.) directly from the dashboard

    view
  • customizing the parameters of widgets 
    • pinning

    • page

    • Customize the widgets to include the settings and details you want to see

    • Pin reports to a selected dashboard

    customized

    • Customize widget

    visuals

    • appearance,

    including

    • such as name, color, and size

    Info

    Your existing dashboard from older versions of License Statistics will be automatically migrated to the new dashboard upon License Statistics v7.x installation.



  • migration of the existing dashboard to the new system automatically
  • permanent state of the dashboards per user, independent of device and browser
  • performance improvements
    • LICSTAT-24760    		Ability to import Sparx System logfileslog files (star)
    LICSTAT-24875Added support for new platforms
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
    • Rocky Linux 10

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    Issue #Description
    LICSTAT-24953

    Clear offline Agents with Last Connection Time older than the selected date

    Info

    Formerly, this functionality was called Disconnect (All) Offline Agents


    LICSTAT-24934

    License Statistics Agent versioning policy changes

    Info

    License Statistics Agent version is now independent of the License Statistics server version, starting from v25.0.0.

    • major version will be introduced every year
    • minor version will contain new functionalities and possible breaking changes
    • micro version will contain bugfixes and minor improvements

    A new policy of backward compatibility was introduced

    License Statistics v7.0 will support the following Agents:

    • v6.18.0+
    • v25.0.0+


    LICSTAT-24068

    Introduced a License Statistics update support policy, including rules describing:

    • installers avabilityInstallers availability
    • automated Automated application updates using installers
    • database Database versions
    • database Database migrations

    LICSTAT-22865

    LICSTAT-24148

    LICSTAT-24147

    		Overall Made improvements to data processing for overall stability, optimization, and performance improvements to data processingperformance 
    User Interface
    LICSTAT-25001 ?Changed the background image of the login page
    LICSTAT-24913Labels Made improvements to labels
    LICSTAT-24459Changed browser cache mechanism
    API
    LICSTAT-24956 ?Improved performance of Features Sessions History endpoints
    Architecture

    LICSTAT-24934

    Upgraded License Statistics Agent to v25.0.0 

    LICSTAT-25116

    LICSTAT-24686 ?

    Upgraded LM-X to v6.0.3

    LICSTAT-25115

    Upgraded Java to v21.0.8

    License Managers
    LICSTAT-24870

    Disabled support for Autodesk cloud monitoring

    Warning

    Because License Statistics can no longer collect Autodesk cloud-based license information reliably and securely, the following Autodesk-related data will no longer be available in License Statistics reports:

    • Number of available Autodesk licenses from the cloud portal
    • Information about users assigned to licenses through Autodesk’s web interface
    • License details fetched directly from the Autodesk cloud

    This change affects only cloud-based monitoring of Autodesk licenses. You can still use License Statistics Agent to continue to collect detailed usage information about Autodesk software running locally on your Autodesk workstations.

    Info

    In one of the a future releasesrelease, we will re-introduce plan to reintroduce most of this functionality by using data importing


    LICSTAT-24421

    Extended reservations for Dassault license manager

    Tip

    IP ranges and groups of IP ranges are merged and presented as a reservation of type IP, with the pattern being the name of the reservation reported by DSLS 


    Removed features and support 
    LICSTAT-25117 ?

    Removed support for old browsers:

    • Chrome before v137
    • Edge before v137
    • Firefox before v136
    • Opera before v118
    • Safari before v18
    LICSTAT-25003Remove Removed Verifying status from License Server Uptime report
    LICSTAT-23743Drop Dropped support for MySQL 8.0
    LICSTAT-24875Removed Ubuntu 20.04 support

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    Issue #Description
    LICSTAT-25054Fixed an issue with persistent data cache status after license server removal
    LICSTAT-24989Fixed an issue with missing date ranges in the API documentation
    LICSTAT-24948Fixed an issue with the collision of verification and successful query when monitoring license servers remotely
    LICSTAT-24947Fixed an issue with a lack of custom column name length limit validation on the API
    LICSTAT-24846Fixed an issue with the inconsistent count of Harvesting Agents
    LICSTAT-22719 ?Fixed an issue with the license server re-creation just after removal 
    LICSTAT-22302 ?Fixed an issue with locking the database during cache refreshing

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