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Note

In addition to learning about the changes in this release, we highly recommend reviewing the License Statistics v6.18 Release Notes if you are upgrading from an older version.

Warning
titleImportant

This release discontinued support for the xflicstat.cfg flag LICENSE_PATH. You must remove the LICENSE_PATH directive from your xflicstat.cfg file; otherwise, License Statistics will not start. Usage of the xflicstat.cfg file has been deprecated since License Statistics v6.18.


New features

Issue #DescriptionLicensing Model 2019
LICSTAT-23478

Introduced Cache Status cache status reporting:

  • A new Cache tab that reports cache preparation status and allows for cache validation has been added to the Administration: License Servers page
  • Information
  • dedicated report in License Servers administration
  • information about data preparation progress/failure on is included in reports
  • API report endpoints return 202 Accepted the http status code 202 Accepted  with the data preparation progress 

LICSTAT-23322

Unified and added new report columns

on

in UI and API:

  • Created consistent multicolumn
view
  • format for:
    • Used
    • Borrowed
    • Reserved
    • Available
    • Host
  • time duration columns
  • percentage split
    • Separated percentage columns from numeric columns to improve filtering, sorting and exporting
    • Added Total Duration column to appropriate reports

    Tip

    The Duration, Total Duration and Duration (%) columns give you important additional statistics that are based not only on the number of used licenses, but also on the duration of time the licenses were in use.



    LICSTAT-23257

    LICSTAT-23172

    Extended notifications for Agent issues notifications:

    • Made Online/Offline status is visible also for not supported unsupported versions 
    • removed Update Required agent status in favor of dedicated error 
    • Removed the Agent status "Update Required" from the End User Agents grid and replaced it with the actual Online/Offline/Updating status 
    • Added warning that displays warning when Harvesting is disabled due to licensing limits
     (star)
    LICSTAT-23150

    Bulk license servers state changeAdded ability to enable/disable multiple license servers at once in the Administration: License Servers page



    Enhancements

    Support
    Issue #Description
    LICSTAT-23494

    Updated Java updated to v21.0.4

    Warningnote
    • Java v21 is the only supported version
    .
    • For recommended embedded JRE usage, no changes are required
    . it
    • the JRE to v21
    .


    LICSTAT-23226Change Extended the Custom Application Event report [UI]to show events for all applications at once
    LICSTAT-17727Mark redundant as Improved License Servers grid in the Administration: License Servers page by marking the "Redundant" column as "N/A" when the license server does not support HAL
    User Interface
    LICSTAT-23470Improve Improved progress bar for percentage columns in grids
    LICSTAT-23468Align numbers to the rightImproved formatting of grids by right-aligning numbers for all numeric grid columns
    API
    LICSTAT-23367Add to Swagger docs information about special value

    Added information to documentation about the special value of the "Still in use" property

    LICSTAT-23329

    Host multicolumn [API]

    LICSTAT-23326

    Unify columns: UHU [API]

    LICSTAT-23325

    Unify columns: FHUC [API]

    LICSTAT-23323

    Unify columns: FHUpU [API]

    LICSTAT-23253

    LICSTAT-23071

    Added column unification properties to all endpoints to support multicolumn view

    • Used
    • Borrowed
    • Reserved
    • Available
    • Host


    Info

    We added new columns to API v3, but the previous columns are still available to support backward compatibility. Old columns that are no longer required or duplicated are deprecated and will be removed in future versions of the API.

    LICSTAT-23253Unify columns: FUH [API]

    CLI
    LICSTAT-23385Improve cli Improved CLI storage backup to work on running instance
    Agent
    LICSTAT-23320Agent reports it's IP as 127.0.0.1 in some cases
    LICSTAT-23172Add Agent warning when Harvesting is disabled due to licensing
    23126Made improvement to compute and transfer Agent configuration only when changes existLICSTAT-23126Compute and transfer agent config on changes only
    License Managers
    LICSTAT-23430Import Added ability to import XML file to Sentinel RMS
    LICSTAT-23406Support Added support for GreenHills legacy
    Architecture
    LICSTAT-23632Update Updated LM-X to 5v5.6.2
    LICSTAT-23350Update Updated MySQL to 8v8.0.39
    LICSTAT-23254Upgrade Upgraded ExtJS to v7.8
    LICSTAT-23506SHA256 checksum for artifacts on the download portal
    Minor Enhancements
    LICSTAT-23591Update Gradle to 8.10.2
    LICSTAT-23498Update maven to 3.9.9
    LICSTAT-23439Update Gitlab to v17.3
    LICSTAT-23417Update node to 18.20.4
    RemovedRemoved features and support
    LICSTAT-23559Stop Stopped including liblmxvendor library with the installer
    LICSTAT-23334

    Deprecated redundant report API columns (to be removed in the next API version)

    • Time Used (tu)
    • Hours Used (hu, lhu)
    • Hours Total (lht)
    • Hours Borrowed (hb)
    • Max Usage (musage)
    LICSTAT-23242Drop support for Removed Debian 10 support
    LICSTAT-21839Remove

    Removed license directory support

     

    Fixes

    Issue #Description
    LICSTAT-23582Fixed an issue with an error displaying after switching between different types of licenses
    LICSTAT-23320Fixed issue with Agents incorrectly reporting their IP address as 127.0.0.1 in some cases