October 3, 2025 - Publishing, sharing, and collaborating on the highest quality engineering product data is complex business. Our Engineering team has put in the work to improve product quality, enhance flexibility for IT administrators, and expand features for end users. Our latest release includes enhancement requests from customers like you, planned product features that improve value, and changes that open new use cases to our customers.
Anark is about to release the initial capabilities of our content-centric collaboration feature set. Please join us for a webinar on this topic December 10, 2025 at 1PM Eastern! If you cannot make this time, sign up and we will provide an on-demand replay afterwards.
Anark Release 4.6.4 includes the following enhancements, new features, and bug fixes. Additional information can be found in the product documentation included with the release and please also look at the Anark Software Release Download Page. The next release will be 4.6.5 planned for late 2025.
Please contact Anark Support if you have any questions about this or the content of any release.
Anark Release 4.6.4
Anark Publish Upgrades
When upgrading Anark Publish to versions 4.5.85 and later from 4.5.83 or older, you must uninstall the old version before upgrading to new versions.
Example: If you are on 4.5.80, and will upgrade to this latest release of 4.6.4, you must uninstall 4.5.80 and then install 4.6.4.
Features and Enhancements
Added new Template APIs for interacting with Work Instructions.
Added new QR Code and Barcode blocks to new Template APIs.
Added a tool to create real-time section cuts with legacy templates .
Assorted performance fixes and improvements
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
Added file-based watermarking for PDFs.
Improved performance of default PDF templates.
Added .obj file export.
Improved display of PMI arrowheads that are co-planar with faces.
PLM Integrations and Publishing
Teamcenter Reference Integration:
Support for Teamcenter 2506 with Active Workspace Client (AWC) has been added for Teamcenter - NX 2506 for both 3D PDF & Anark Collaborate Publishing
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Product Corrections
Customer feedback and continuous improvement are an important part of how we develop our products and thank you for any feedback so we can deliver you the best overall product quality.
Anark Collaborate
Addressed an issue with templates and animations.
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
Display of the “ALL OVER” symbol from Creo in Workstation for 3D PDF publications (Support ticket 2671).
Small font sizes (Support ticket 8267).
CAD views and geometry corrections.
ANARK_ENABLE_SHOWONTOP environment variable (Support ticket 8218).
CAD Integrations and Publishing
JT data PMI highlighting
Inspection dimensions in Creo processing (Support ticket 8054).
Missing All Around symbols in Creo (Support ticket 8128).
Importing CATIA project files error
CATIA imports performance
PLM Integrations and Publishing
Support (work around) for CREO 11.0.5.0 has been added: The system now fully supports CREO 11.0.5.0 with 3D PDF publishing, ensuring compatibility and smooth operation.
Creo Translation Logs are now correctly updated in the Windchill log, database, and staging directory, providing accurate tracking and traceability.
Support Notices
Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice
Release 4.6.4 continues to support the Teamcenter versions below:
2412 (For both NX and Creo Data)
Please note that support for the Teamcenter version below has been removed:
2406
Siemens NX Support Notice
Anark has added support for NX2412 in Release 4.6.1 and NX2506 in Release 4.6.3.
PTC Windchill Support Notice
Release 4.6.4 continues to support the Windchill versions below:
12.1.2.0
13.1.1.0
Support for the Windchill versions below is planned for removal:
Support for 12.1.2.8 is tentatively planned for Release 4.6.5 also.
Notes on Compatibility Updates to Creo 11 & Windchill 12/13
Only the Anark Windchill Reference Integration Release 4.6.4 supports publishing of Creo 11.0.5 and later versions with Windchill 12/13.
It is recommended to use Creo 11.0.5.0 or later versions for best results.
The current work around solution performs necessary check-out and undo check-out of Windchill objects before publishing to activate Creo model views, without impacting the version or revision of Windchill objects.
Anark Collaborate publishing will be supported in Release 4.6.5.
From PTC:
This update addresses SPR 16407780 (https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/spr.jsp?n=16407780&as=1), reported to PTC R&D regarding the issue with API ProCombstateActivate() returning PRO_TK_CANT_MODIFY when activating the default_all state for models in read-only mode.
PTC R&D Fix: The API will now successfully activate combined states regardless of the explode state assigned to the model.
Scheduled Creo Maintenance Releases with Fix is Creo Version 11.0.7.0 with an expected Release Date of Q1 2026.
Third Party Deprecation Schedule
Our products use or depend on some third party components. Our philosophy is to provide support to match the oldest version officially supported by each third party provider. For example, we follow the Microsoft support plan for versions of Windows. This section is intended to communicate these schedules in advance to allow our customers to plan. See more info below.
Anark Collaborate
Collaborate currently supports both MongoDB 7 and 8. Per the Mongo schedule, they have removed support for MongoDB 6 in July 2025. We will end support for MongoDB 6.0 in Q4 2025.
MongoDB Server support schedule (https://www.mongodb.com/legal/support-policy/lifecycles)
RHEL support schedule (https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/)
Collaborate currently supports RHEL 8 and 9. Per Red Hat’s policy, you must purchase support from Red Hat for RHEL 8 beyond May 31, 2024.
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
Workstation and Publish currently support Windows Server 2019 and 2022, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Note that Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 10 on Oct 14, 2025, and has dropped support for Windows Server 2019 on Jan 9, 2024. We support .NET Framework 4.7.2 and up.
PLM Integrations
Anark PLM integrations support the Java Runtime 11 LTS and 17 LTS (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html)
Anark Release versioning since 4.6.0:
The main reason behind the new release numbering scheme that started with Release 4.6.0 is to support a major.minor.patch scheme that follows SEMANTIC VERSIONING. For more information, read https://semver.org/ . Essentially, the new numbering scheme means:
MAJOR version - when we make incompatible/breaking changes or offer significant new functionality. For example, a new and improved API, a new database schema, etc. These changes should be reviewed thoroughly before upgrading.
MINOR version - when we add new functionality in a backward compatible manner. The majority of Anark’s changes to Publish and Workstation will be MINOR or PATCH.
PATCH version - when we make backward compatible bug fixes.
We will endeavor to maintain backward compatibility as often as possible to reduce the impact on you, our customers. However, if the potential benefit significantly outweighs the impact, we may elect to make those tradeoffs and will communicate those changes in advance.
Customers who are experiencing problems should strongly consider taking PATCH releases. Customers who want to evaluate new functionality should consider MINOR releases.
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