New PC Guard V6 service build has been released. This update is highly recommended for all PC Guard V6 users!

What's new:

[+] New limited license feature: Day of the month expiration.

If enabled, application will expire on specific day of the month.

Examples:

If day of the month is set to:

1 - application will expire on first day of any month.

31 - application will expire on last day of any month.

This means 31st day for months with 31 days, 30th day for month with 30 days and on 28th (29th for leap years) February.

30 - application will expire on 30th day except in February when it will expire on 28th (29th for leap years).

29 - application will expire on 29th day except in February when it will expire on 28th (29th for leap years).

Exact expiration date is determined by the day of activation.

Examples:

If day of month is set to 1 and application is activated on first day of current month license will be valid until first day of next month (about 30 days). If it is activated on 15th of current month it will be valid until 1st of next month (about 15 days).

If day of month is set to 15 and application is activated on first day of month license will be valid until 15th of current month (about 15 days). If it is activated on 20th of current month it will be valid until 15th of next month (about 25 days)

Note:

Default license validity (number of days) should be set to 31 day in case day of the month limitation is enabled.

[*] Extended activation panel supports day of the month expiration feature.

Easily change default day of the month expiration value when generating extended activation code for protected application.

[#] ACEN Web licensing: Limited license feature:

- Number of runs limitation and day of the month limitation will be automatically disabled in case of ACEN web licensing.

[+] New protection interface structure members. 

[>] Interface dll has been updated. Please be sure to update existing version with this one.

[>] NEW PROTECTION INTERFACE STRUCTURE

New update introduces new limited license day of the month limitation (license will expire on specific day of the month).

New updates for Activation suite, AC Generator, AC Generator API and AC Generator WEB will also be released next week following the release of PC Guard with support for new feature.

More information about forthcoming new feature is available in new knowledge base article.

New V6 service build has been released. This update is highly recommended for all PC Guard V6 users!

What's new:

[+] Added support for Flowstone DSP applications (http://dsprobotics.com)

[+] ACEN server settings tab added to remote protection settings.

Activation center Url moved from web licensing settings to ACEN server settings.

[+] ACEN admin username/password options added to ACEN server settings

Any valid ACEN user (admin) username/password can be used here.

These options are required for testing connection to ACEN web server and validating programs for web licensing.

ACEN admin username will be saved to project settings. Password will not be saved together with other project settings for security reasons.

Password value should be set when access to ACEN from PC Guard is required (for testing connection to ACEN server and validating program for web licensing).

[+] "Test" connection to ACEN server button added to ACEN server settings.

Connection to ACEN web server service will be tested. This feature requires ACEN server 04.11.00 and later.

In case of successful connection appropriate message will be displayed together with information about remote ACEN server version.

[+] "Validate" program button added to ACEN web licensing settings.

This feature will validate Program for web licensing (check if there is a program with such ID and if web licensing is enabled for program).

[!] Few other minor bug fixes and improvements.

[>] ACEN web service interface modules are updated!

New build for Activation center (ACEN) has been released. This update is highly recommended for all Activation center users.

What's new:

[*] WebLicensingValidateProgram now requires authorization and can be used by administrator users only.

[!] Few minor fixes.

[*] Acenservice sample application has been updated.

[>] UPGRADING NOTES:

Please refer to whatsnew.txt document for detailed information and upgrade instructions.

New build for Activation center (ACEN) has been released. This update is highly recommended for all Activation center users.

What's new:

[+] LicenseAlive acen web service method added.

This method will report standard license as "alive" (active) to ACEN.

Protected application could make this call once a day or as required. Each time this method is called ACEN will save current server date/time to license details (last alive call field).

In this way ACEN administrators can determine if standard license is still in use on remote computer.

Please refer to product manual for detailed information about this web service method.

[+] WebLicensingValidateProgram acen web service method added.

[*] LicenseID value added to result structure. 

AddLicense and UpdateLicense web service methods will now set LicenseID value in result structure to new (standard) license ID in of success.

LicenseID value is required for LicenseAlive web service method.

[*] Web licensing logging is now separate from standard licensing logging.

Web licensing operations can now be separately filtered in audit section.

[*] Failed attempts to use web service are now logged.

[*] IP address value added to Logs table and is no longer stored in log message.

[*] "Host temporarily banned" error is now logged by SYSADM user.

[*] WebLicensingServiceUser (WEBLIC) renamed to WebServiceUser (WEBSRV)

[*] SYSADM and WEBSRV and now system reserved usernames which can not be used for new ACEN users.

[*] Acenservice sample application has been updated.

[!] Few minor UI & bug fixes.

[>] Upgrade script  is available for users upgrading from previous release.

[>] UPGRADING NOTES:

Please refer to whatsnew.txt document for detailed information and upgrade instructions.