Tom Sawyer Licensing

Release 2.1.0

Overview

This release adds support for OAuth 2.0 authentication, updates some third-party libraries and supported operating systems, and makes additional software improvements. The license administrator can now configure authentication settings against a license so applications using this license can have advanced login capabilities.

New

• Added support for configuring OAuth 2.0 authentication against a license

Improvements

• Added documentation for headless installations

System Requirements

• Added support for Apple macOS 13.2
• Dropped support for Apple macOS 12.6

Fixes

• Fixed clearing of data when re-adding an existing license
• Fixed Dashboard view that stopped working in Tom Sawyer Licensing 2.0.4

Issues

• None

Release 2.0.4

Overview

This release updates some third-party libraries and supported operating systems.

New

• None

Improvements

• Fixed vulnerabilities by using new versions of some third-party libraries

System Requirements

• Added support for Apple macOS 12.6
• Added support for Microsoft Windows 11
• Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019
• Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022
• Added support for Oracle Linux 8.4
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
• Dropped support for Apple macOS 10.15
• Dropped support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Dropped support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• Dropped support for Oracle Linux 7.4
• Dropped support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
• Dropped support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and later

Fixes

• Fixed vulnerabilities by using new versions of some third-party libraries

Issues

• The documentation must be opened in Google Chrome.
• The Uninstall utility does not fully remove all directories and files for installations on Windows 10. You can safely delete the remaining directories and files.

Release 2.0.3

Overview

This release updates a supported operating system and includes various quality improvements.

New

• None

Improvements

• Eliminated the auto-launch of the sign-in page after installing Tom Sawyer Licensing
• Improved the user experience for first-time access of the sign-in page
• Added descriptive text to the register page for the administrator user and improved the placement of the password tooltip

System Requirements

• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
• Dropped support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4

Fixes

• None

Issues

• The documentation must be opened in Google Chrome.
• When installing Tom Sawyer Licensing on Microsoft Windows 10, you may receive the following warning: "Windows protected your PC: Windows Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk." We confirm that our installer is signed with a valid Tom Sawyer Software digital certificate, and you can safely click the "Run anyway" button to install the software.
• The Uninstall utility does not fully remove all directories and files for installations on Windows 10. You can safely delete the remaining directories and files.

Release 2.0.2

Overview

This release updates the supported operating systems and application servers and includes various quality improvements.

New

• None

Improvements

• Improved support for long license names

System Requirements

• Added support for Apple macOS 10.15
• Added support for Apache Tomcat 9
• Added support for OpenJDK 11
• Dropped support for Apple macOS 10.14

Fixes

• Fixed License Server errors that occurred with certain Linux and UNIX network configurations
• Resolved problems when re-adding an invalidated license
• Resolved an exception seen when logging out of the License Dashboard
• Assured that multiple licenses in the same hostpath do not have the same name

Issues

• The documentation must be opened in Google Chrome.
• Due to security setting updates in Apple macOS 10.15, installation of Tom Sawyer Licensing on macOS may not be able to proceed normally. To install Tom Sawyer Licensing, right-click the installer and click Show in Finder when the "can't be opened" dialog displays. Right-click the installer again and click Open when the "can't be opened" dialog redisplays.

Release 2.0.1

Overview

This release includes many enhancements including additional documentation to support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an improved license upgrade process to retain users across multiple changes to a license, centralized custom port configuration, simplified logging configuration, and improved support for Microsoft Windows installations. This release also updates the supported operating systems.

New

• None

Improvements

• Updated the documentation for enabling SSL
• Made specifying custom ports easier
• Improved the license upgrade process to retain users across multiple changes to a license
• Improved the license upgrade process to retain existing licenses
• Simplified logging configuration
• Added scripts to start server as an automatic service on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Added scripts to simplify resetting administrator user credentials
• Upgraded the licensing console dashboard
• Added a newly designed header to the user interface

System Requirements

• Added support for Apple macOS 10.14
• Added support for Oracle Linux 7.4
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
• Dropped support for Apple macOS 10.13
• Dropped support for Microsoft Windows 7
• Dropped support for Oracle Linux 7.2
• Dropped support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

Fixes

• Resolved issues related to the download flow process
• Installation now occurs correctly regardless of whether Java is already installed

Issues

• If you currently use Tom Sawyer Licensing, Release 2.0.0, and you update to Tom Sawyer Licensing, Release 2.0.1, any custom port, SSL, or authentication settings will need to be reapplied. If you notice unexpected behavior, contact Support for a resolution.
• If you are upgrading your license server from Tom Sawyer Licensing Version 2.0, you need to uninstall Version 2.0, restart your machine, then install the latest version in the same directory.
• The documentation must be opened in Google Chrome.

Release 2.0.0

Overview

Tom Sawyer Licensing, Release 2.0.0 features a completely new design. New technologies were implemented in order to support a larger number of end users and improved scalability and performance. With a new graphical reporting feature created with Tom Sawyer Perspectives, you can visualize the usage of a license over time, allowing for better management of your end-user community. A redesign of Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration, driven by our customers' feedback, provides better support and an improved user interface.

License usage tracking has been completely renovated with new functionality for end-user management. Now you can better control who uses your Tom Sawyer products by fine tuning product access, such as blocking specific end users or making them permanent. We have also included a powerful Tom Sawyer Perspectives dashboard to help you visualize how your end-user community uses your Tom Sawyer products.

New

• New Licensing Administration console
• Dashboard built with Tom Sawyer Perspectives to visualize product usage
• Ability to block specific end users
• Ability to sort by end-user names
• Ability to make specific end users permanent
• SSL support
• LDAP and Active Directory login support
• Ability to search for specific end users
• Ability to search for specific licenses
• License usage data collection
• End users in use limit warning

Improvements

• Improved logging messages
• Ability to support a large number of end users

System Requirements

• These operating systems have been added:
  • Apple macOS 10.13
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.2
• These operating systems have been dropped:
  • Apple OS X 10.11
  • Apple macOS 10.12
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Oracle Linux 6.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
• Added support for JRE 9.0

Fixes

• Fixed problem of blocked end users if the same browser session was used
• Fixed long waiting period for deleted end users
• Fixed grace period validation for offline end users

Release 1.1.13

Overview

This release updates the supported operating systems, application servers, and web browsers.

System Requirements

• These operating systems have been added:
  • Apple macOS 10.12
  • Oracle Linux 6.8
  • Oracle Linux 7.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
• These operating systems have been dropped:
  • Apple OS X 10.10
  • Microsoft Windows 8
  • Oracle Linux 6.6
  • Oracle Linux 7.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
  • Oracle Solaris 10.0
  • Oracle Solaris 11.0
• This application server has been added:
  • Apache Tomcat 8.5
• These application servers have been dropped:
  • Apache Tomcat 7.0
  • Oracle Weblogic Server 11g
  • Red Hat JBoss 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0
  • Red Hat WildFly 8
• This browser has been dropped:
  • Opera Beta

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.12

Overview

This release updates the supported operating systems, application servers, and web browsers.

New

• None

Improvements

• None

System Requirements

• Added support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.11
  • Microsoft Windows 10
• Dropped support for this operating system:
  • Apple OS X 10.9
• Added support for this application server:
  • Red Hat WildFly 9
• Added support for these browsers:
  • Apple Safari 9.0
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Opera
  • Opera Beta
• Dropped support for these browsers:
  • Apple Safari 7.0
  • Apple Safari 7.1

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.11

Overview

This release improves user access logging, and also updates the supported operating systems and browsers.

New

• None

Improvements

• Improved licensing access logging

System Requirements

• Added support for JDK 8.0
• Dropped support for JDK 6.0
• Added support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.10
  • Oracle Linux 6.6
  • Oracle Linux 7.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
• Added support for these browsers:
  • Apple Safari 7.1
  • Apple Safari 8.0
• Dropped support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.8
  • Oracle Linux 5.0
  • Oracle Linux 6.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
• Dropped support for these browsers:
  • Apple Safari 6.0
  • Apple Safari 6.1

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.10

Date	July 31, 2014
Status	General

Overview

This release updates the supported application servers and web browsers. Additionally, it improves end-user management and the determination of the directory for the local license server.

New

• None

Improvements

• Refined the determination of the directory for the local license server

System Requirements

• Added support for these application servers:
  • Wildfly 8
  • Eclipse Jetty 9.1.3
• Dropped support for this web browser:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0

Fixes

• The "Available" information for end users updates correctly
• The license server ID no longer extracts redundantly

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.9

Date	December 12, 2013
Status	General

Overview

This release updates the supported operating systems, application servers, and browsers.

New

• None

Improvements

• None

System Requirements

• Added support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.9
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Added support for these application servers:
  • IBM WebSphere 8.5
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.2
• Added support for these browsers:
  • Apple Safari 6.1
  • Apple Safari 7.0
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
• Dropped support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.6
  • Apple OS X 10.7
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
• Dropped support for these application servers:
  • IBM WebSphere 8.0
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.1

Fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.8

Date	June 5, 2013
Status	General

Overview

This release improves reliability when no connection to the license server is available. It also adds features that allow greater flexibility when managing user access.

New

• Mark users as permanent to prevent automated deletion from the Users list
• Added APIs to check whether a user is already in the Users list before registering them
• Added APIs to check the list of all registered users

Improvements

• Improved logging messages
• Improved the ability to work without any connection to the license server during the grace period

System Requirements

• These operating systems have been added:
  • Oracle Solaris 11
  • Oracle Linux 6
• Dropped support for Apple Safari 5.1

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.7

Date	February 28, 2013
Status	General

Overview

This release updates the supported operating systems and application servers.

New

• None

Improvements

• Improved logging features

System Requirements

• These operating systems have been added:
  • Microsoft Windows 8
  • Oracle Linux
  • SUSE Linux 11
• These application servers have been added:
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 12c
  • Red Hat JBoss 7.0 and 7.1
• Dropped support for Red Hat JBoss 5.1
• Added support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 10

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.6

Overview

This release improves user registration and login.

New

• None

Improvements

• None

System Requirements

• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Dropped support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Added support for JDK 7.0
• Dropped support for JDK 5.0

Fixes

• User names are no longer case sensitive

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.5

Overview

This release improves Automatic User Registration performance.

New

• None

Improvements

Technology

• Improved Automatic User Registration

System Requirements

• Added support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.4

Overview

This release provides all of the documentation in HTML format, with global search capability.

New

Documentation

• Added search capability across all documentation

Improvements

Technology

• Refined Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration pages
• Improved support for licenses with a very large number of users
• Revised the simultaneous instances per user to retain the most recently used instances instead of the most recently created ones

System Requirements

• Added support for JDK 6.0
• Dropped support for JDK 5.0
• These browsers have been added:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 5.0

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.3

Overview

This release improves the message returned in the event of a licensing failure.

New

• None

Improvements

• Improved error messages

System Requirements

• None

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.2

Overview

This release features refinements to Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration Client and documentation improvements.

New

• None

Improvements

Technology

• Refined Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration

Documentation

• Improved instructions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Sun Solaris 10

System Requirements

• This browser has been added:
  • Google Chrome 6.0

Fixes

• "Last Used" information for End Users updates correctly

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.1

Overview

This release features refinements to Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration and documentation improvements.

New

• None

Improvements

Technology

• Refined Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration

Documentation

• Improved instructions for Apple Mac OS X

System Requirements

• These browsers have been added:
  • Apple Safari 5.0
  • Google Chrome 5.0

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 1.1.0

Overview

This release enables access control to the Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration Client, supports additional platforms and application servers, and includes several fixes.

New

Technology

• More precise date and time support

Improvements

Technology

• Refined license server ID determination on Linux and UNIX operating systems
• Enhanced license setup process

Documentation

• Added procedure for enabling access control to Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration
• Expanded installation instructions to include machines running Apple Mac OS X

System Requirements

• Dropped support for JDK 1.4
• These operating systems are certified in this release:
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• These operating systems have been dropped:
  • Microsoft Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Sun Solaris 9
  • SUSE Linux 10
• These application servers are certified in this release:
  • Apache Tomcat 6.0
  • IBM WebSphere 6.1 and 7.0
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 11g
  • Red Hat JBoss 5.0 and 5.1
• These application servers have been dropped:
  • Apache Tomcat 5.0
  • BEA WebLogic 8.1 and 9.0
  • IBM WebSphere 5.1 and 6.0
  • Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.3
  • Red Hat JBoss 4.0
  • Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9.0
• These browsers have been added:
  • Apple Safari 4.0
  • Google Chrome 4.0
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6
• These browsers have been dropped:
  • Apple Safari 1.3 and 2.0
  • Netscape 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and 2.0

Fixes

• User names are no longer case sensitive
• Changing the install path on Sun Solaris puts shipped Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in the correct directory
• Better support for simultaneous instances per user restriction
• User's active application instances are stopped when the user is deleted from the Tom Sawyer Licensing Administration Client

Issues

• None

Release 1.0.5

Overview

This release addresses a compatibility issue with Solaris 10 and Oracle Weblogic Server 9.2.

New

• None

Improvements

• None

System Requirements

These operating systems are certified in this release:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP 2 and SP 3
• Microsoft Windows Vista SP 1
• Sun Solaris 10
• Ubuntu Linux 9.04

These application servers are certified in this release:

• Apache Tomcat 5.5
• Oracle Weblogic Server 9.2

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None