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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.

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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 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 about data preparation progress/failure is included in reports
  • API report endpoints return the http status code 202 Accepted  with data preparation progress 

LICSTAT-23322

Unified and added new report columns in UI and API:

  • Created consistent multicolumn format for:
    • Used
    • Borrowed
    • Reserved
    • Available
    • Host
Added usage duration columns
  • 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:

  • Made Online/Offline status visible for unsupported versions 
  • Removed the Agent status "Update Required" so errors can be reported from the End User Agents grid and replaced it with the actual Online/Offline/Updating status 
  • Added warning that displays when Harvesting is disabled due to licensing limits
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LICSTAT-23150

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


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warning when Harvesting is disabled due to licensing
Issue #Description
LICSTAT-23494

Updated Java to v21.0.4

Note
  • Java v21 is the only supported version
  • For recommended embedded JRE usage, no changes are required
  • If custom Java implementation is in use, make sure to update the JRE to v21


LICSTAT-23226Extended the Custom Application Event report to show events for all applications at once
LICSTAT-17727Improved 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-23470Improved progress bar for percentage columns in grids
LICSTAT-23468Improved formatting of grids by right-aligning numbers numbers for all numeric grid columns
API
LICSTAT-23367

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

LICSTAT-23329

LICSTAT-23326

LICSTAT-23325

LICSTAT-23323

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.

CLI
LICSTAT-23385Improved CLI storage backup to work on running instance
Agent
LICSTAT-23320Fixed issue with Agents incorrectly reporting their IP address as 127.0.0.1 in some cases
LICSTAT-23172Added
Agent
LICSTAT-23126Made improvement to compute and transfer Agent configuration only when changes exist
License Managers
LICSTAT-23430Added ability to import XML file to Sentinel RMS
LICSTAT-23406Added support for GreenHills legacy
Architecture
LICSTAT-23632Updated LM-X to v5.6.2
LICSTAT-23350Updated MySQL to v8.0.39
LICSTAT-23254Upgraded ExtJS to v7.8
Removed features and support
LICSTAT-23559Stopped 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-23242Removed Debian 10 support
LICSTAT-21839

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