Anark 4.6.5 Release Announcement - November 6, 2025

November 6, 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 4.6.5 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 4.6.6 planned for the top of 2026. 

Please contact Anark Support if you have any questions about this or the content of any release.

Anark Release 4.6.5

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 4.6.5.

Anark Collaborate - Content-Centric Collaboration

This release includes several new exciting features to make collaboration around your technical content better and easier.

• With the introduction of “Spaces” users can now create an isolated environment for collaborating directly on a content item. In contrast to Activities, markups on a content item inside a Space will live with that content item instead of in a feed. Members of that Space with the review privilege will be able to inspect all markups on any content item in the Space. Markups on a content item are saved as comments on a content item, just like adding comments to a Word document or in Adobe PDF. Comments can be assigned to users, assigned a priority, given a status, and any number of custom tags. This is the concept of Content-Centric collaboration.
• Two new markup tools have been added. For models, a rich text 3D annotation has been added. For data components and documents, a strikethrough tool has been added.
• A new landing page after logging into Collaboration has been added, and previous options (Feed or My Files) have been removed. Now users will find My Files, Favorites, Spaces they belong to, along with Activities and content items you have access to, all on one page immediately after login. 
• There is now a Linux RPM installer for single-box setups – MongoDB, content storage, and application are all on the same machine – enabling single-command installation and future single-command upgrades. More environments will be supported in the future.
• Added support for NodeJS 24 and removed support for NodeJS 20.
• Please see the on-demand webinar on this new feature set from December 10, 2025!

Anark Workstation and Publish

• New STEP Advanced MBD translator supporting STEP AP242 up to Edition 3, AP214 and AP203.

PLM Integrations and Publishing

Windchill Reference Integration:

• Added support for file-based watermarking for all three Windchill Objects ( EPMDocument, WTPart and WTDocument)
• Creo 11 & Windchill 12/13 Compatibility issue: Added support for EPMDocument Content/Component-based publishing. 

Teamcenter Reference Integration:

• Updated the naming convention for all deployment libraries, including RAC, Workflow Handler, AWC, and Dispatcher to facilitate inclusion of new translators with basic capabilities available from core libraries.
• Revised the naming convention for Dispatcher NX Translator, Preferences, Workflow Handler names, Action Menu names, and Log file names to maintain consistency across all components.
• Reference integration module for NX data publishing, NX package-based data publishing, NX Creo data publishing have been refactored as the new naming convention.
• Naming convention changes and refactored source code modules will allow customers to deploy NX data publishing and/or Creo data publishing independently without having any dependencies on one another. Apart from this, new translator development be easily achieved with most of the core capabilities available in base libraries.
• Introduced a new translator to publish document data from Teamcenter. This translator enables translation of 2D data (metadata, attachment files, embedded files, etc.) without requiring any CAD data as part of publishing.
• Key features of this type of document publishing include:
  • Publishing capability from Teamcenter Rich Client, Teamcenter Active Workspace and Workflow Handler.
  • Allows document publishing of datasets associated with any item revision with or without CAD dataset.
  • Allows document publishing from assembly with support to extract BOMLine data at a configurable level.
  • Supports extraction of Item and Item Revision metadata
  • Email notifications upon publishing completion.
• For document publishing these requirements exists also:
  • It is mandatory to have at least one dataset (attachment or embedded file) associated with the Item Revision.
  • The recipe must be configured with an XML file as an import and export format should be PDF with a suitable 2D data template.
  • Teamcenter metadata extraction preferences must be configured as required.

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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

• Content-Centric Collaboration rollout was a strong focus of this release!

Anark Workstation and Anark Publish

• Fixed a bug with recipe fingerprints that caused project files to load incorrectly 
• Fixed a rendering bug that caused geometry to not display in some edge cases
• Modernized and improved Anark Publish Log Viewer

CAD Integrations and Publishing

• Improved import of CATIA Parameter Sets for both CATIA translators 
• Fixed a Creo import bug related to face override colors (Support ticket 5425)
• New JT import option to set part colors using product structure attributes
• Fixed a bug with removal of file based watermarks from PDFs
• Additional performance improvements for default PDF template
• Upgraded HOOPS Exchange to 2025.7.0

PLM Integrations and Publishing

• Windchill: Creo 11 & Windchill 12/13 Compatibility issue: Addressed a problem where children parts were not being removed from the Windchill workspace.
• Windchill: Fixed an issue where republishing was skipped for single parts and publishing top level assembly alone.
• Windchill: Rectified Creo import logs being duplicated multiple times in Anark Publish logs.

Support Notices

Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice

Release 4.6.5 continues to support the Teamcenter versions below:

• 2412 (For both NX and Creo Data)

• 2506 (For both NX and Creo Data)

Please note that support for the Teamcenter version below was previously removed:

• 2406

Siemens NX Support Notice

Anark 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 below Windchill version was removed in this Release 4.6.5:

• 12.1.2.0

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 is supported in this 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 and Anark ended support for MongoDB 6.0 with this Release 4.6.5. 

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 has dropped 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. 

Anark has dropped support for Windows 10 in Release 4.6.5. We plan to add support for Windows 2025 in 4.6.6.

• Microsoft Windows, Windows Server
  (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/windows
• .NET Framework
  (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/dotnet-framework)

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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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Recent topics of interest in releases include the below and much more that can be found at the website or we can provide documents as needed:

• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Low-Code Template Capabilities for Anark Collaborate
• Measurement within Anark Collaborate for 3D CAD
• DODI 5000.97 Digital Engineering support
• Anark 3Di (3D PDF) TDP's for MIL-STD-31000B
• Performance improvements to both MBD Adaptors, PLM Integrations, 3P PDF Templates.
• Anark support of industry events, MBD, 3D PDF, MIL-STD-31000B, DoDI 5000.97, ASME Y14.x
• Support for DMSC Model Based Characteristics.
• Rollout of the Content-centric Collaboration feature set where markup, notes and more are directly associated with Anark Collaborate Content via Spaces.  Much more on this topic and feature set in 2026!

For more information on this or any previous releases, current customers can use the Anark Support Portal.