Anark 4.6.8 Release Announcement

August 4, 2026

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.

Raptor Has Landed: The Next Generation of Model-Based Collaboration

Join us September 30 at 1:00 PM ET for the official launch of Anark Collaborate 5 Raptor.

Anark Collaborate 5 Raptor extends trusted engineering product data into the workflows where manufacturing, quality, suppliers, partners, and other teams need to review, understand, and act on complex product information. Designed for speed and engineered for MBD precision, Raptor helps manufacturers keep product context, feedback, responsibility, and decisions connected as work moves beyond engineering.

Anark Release 4.6.8 as described below works with Raptor and includes the following enhancements, new features, and bug fixes. Additional information can be found in the product documentation included with the release and here is the Anark Software Release Download Page.  

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

Anark Release 4.6.8

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 4.6.8, you must uninstall 4.5.80 and then install 4.6.8.

Anark Publish Gateway Enhancements

• Separated Preset Publish and Preset Watermark UIs: Each now has its own dedicated interface for a clearer, more streamlined experience.
• Redesigned Publish UI: The recipe list now appears in the left panel, letting users select a recipe at runtime.
• Enhanced Watermark UI:
  • All watermark presets are now listed in the left panel for easy selection.
  • Users can edit, save, and publish watermark presets directly from the same screen.
• Consistent Workflow UI: Publish and Watermark screens now share a unified look and experience.
• Improved Metadata section: Fields are now displayed in a structured row-and-column layout for better readability.

Anark Workstation and Anark Publish

• Upgraded DevExpress library to 25.2.6 (Internal 16518)
• Upgraded CEF to 149.0.60 (Internal 17973)

PLM Integrations and Publishing

      Windchill Integration:

• Introduction of the capability to apply configurable watermark business objects. For EPMDocument and WTPart addition of watermark is supported. For WTDocument addition, removing and updating watermarks is supported. 

     Teamcenter Integration:

• Implemented watermark support for the NX and Creo translators to generate 3D PDFs with watermarks applied.
• Enhanced the visibility of the publishing command based on preference configuration.
• Enhanced GUI user selection options (AC and 3D PDF) visibility in both RAC and AWC based on the configured recipe.
• Added a preference-based configuration to allow publishing for specific Item Revision types (RAC and AWC only).
• Enhanced the publishing mechanism to avoid unnecessary calls to Anark Collaborate when the recipe is configured for 3D PDF publishing, and vice versa.
• Added a new watermark translator to add, remove, and update watermarks on existing PDFs in Teamcenter.

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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 Workstation and Anark Publish

• Fixed a bug with floating point numbers in Excel tables failing to export

Anark Publish Gateway

• Fixed an issue where repeated logs were generated in console when the workflow module is loaded
• Fixed an issue where, while creating workflow templates, Attach and Embed options were displayed for Anark Collaborate recipes as well

CAD Integrations and Publishing

• Fixed a bug with missing Jt associations 
• Upgrade HOOPS to 2026.3.0 
• Fixed a bug with Catia TS PMI associations to surfaces
• Fixed a bug with Catia DS associations to supplemental geometry edges 
• Fixed a bug with incorrect hide/show in Catia DS Captures
• Fixed a bug in Creo import where cross-section views showed the wrong side of the cutting plane 
• Fixed a bug in Creo importer where part occurrences in assembly views were missing 
• Added support for Creo 13.4 
• Fixed a bug with using a non-standard path to Creo 
• Added ability to preserve aspect ratio when exporting to Collaborate 
• Allow export to PDF with only GD&T

PLM Integrations and Publishing

• Windchill: Fixed an issue where a killed job continuously generated log entries in the Anarkpublish.log file. Logging has been updated to prevent repetitive logging
• Teamcenter: Fixed an issue where dispatcher was not terminating the process when job gets killed in Anark Publish

Support Notices

Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice

Release 4.6.8 continues to support the Teamcenter versions below:

• 2412 (For both NX and CREO data) using JDK 17
• 2506 (For both NX and CREO data) using JDK 17
• 2512 (For both NX and CREO data) using JDK 21

Siemens NX Support Notice

Anark has added support for NX2506 in Release 4.6.3 and NX2512 in 4.6.6, and NX2606 in 4.6.8

PTC Creo Support Notice

8 and 9 support is deprecated in 4.6.8 and will no longer be supported in 4.6.9.

PTC Windchill Support Notice

Release 4.6.8 continues to support the Windchill versions below:

• 12.1.2.8 using JDJ 11
• 13.1.1.0 using JDK 21

Notes on Compatibility Updates to Creo 11 & Windchill 12/13

• Windchill Reference Integration 4.6.8 is compatible with most PTC Creo versions. However, when an assembly contains an exploded view, it may not render correctly in 3DPDF when using Creo 11 and Creo 12. This has been identified by PTC as a known issue, and a fix is planned for an upcoming release. Please note that Creo 10 does not have any issues with exploded views in 3D PDF

Deprecated Imported Attributes in the Anark Creo Adapter

The Release 4.6.8 of Workstation and Publish removes some imported attributes from Creo Adapter imports. The following imported attributes will not be available when importing Creo models using the Creo Advanced MBD option in Workstation and Publish:

Note: "<order>" is one of "primary", "secondary", or "tertiary".

• gt1_<order>BasicDatumName
• gt1_<order>BasicMaterialCondition
• gt1_<order>CompoundDatumName
• gt1_<order>CompoundMaterialCondition
• gt1_compositeToleranceValue
• gt1_compositeToleranceValue
• gt1_isComposite
• gt1_isOverallTolerance
• gt1_isPerUnitTolerance
• gt1_materialCondition
• gt1_outside
• gt1_overallToleranceValue
• gt1_profileIndex
• gt1_projectedZone
• gt1_projectedZoneHeight
• gt1_showDiameterSymbol
• gt1_showFreeStateSymbol
• gt1_showStatisticalToleraceSymbol
• gt1_showTangentPlaneSymbol
• gt1_unitAreaOrLength
• gt1_valuePerUnit
• isComposite

Imported attributes that have the "PTC_..." prefix may be used to get the same information as the attributes above (e.g., "gt1_ValueString" is equivalent to "PTC_GTOL_PRIMARY_TOL"). Attributes with the "PTC_..." prefix are already included in the import for existing releases of Workstation and Publish.

Please contact us so that we provide workarounds and suggestions if you depend on these deprecated attributes for your publishing workloads.

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 have ended support for MongoDB 6.0 in Release 4.6.5.

The next major Collaborate release will come in August 2026 and is a significant update, including third party software. It will release separately from the current 4.6.8 release and will use the naming convention Anark Collaborate 5 Raptor. 

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 2022 and 2025 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 and Anark no longer supports these. We support .NET Framework 4.8 and up. 

Anark has dropped support for Windows 10 in Release 4.6.5. We added 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

Java compatibility for Windchill 12.1.2.8 is JDK 11.0.17 

 Java compatibility for Windchill 13.1.1.0 is JDK 21.0.7 

Anark Teamcenter Reference Integration uses Java versions below.

 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 and Panels for HTML content
• Measurement within Anark Collaborate for 3D CAD
• DODI 5000.97 Digital Engineering support
• Anark 3Di (3D PDF) TDP's for MIL-STD-31000B
• Standalone HTML File Digital Data Packages - New for 2026!
• Performance improvements to MBD Adaptors, PLM Integrations, 3P PDF Templates.
• Anark support of industry events, MBD, 3D PDF, MIL-STD-31000B, DoDI 5000.97, ASME Y14.x, STEP AP242, QIF, more! 
• Support for DMSC Model Based Characteristics with MBD Adaptors.
• All the new information at the Anark YouTube Channel!
• Anark Collaborate 5 Raptor Release event
  

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