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
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
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:
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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
Anark Publish Gateway
CAD Integrations and Publishing
PLM Integrations and Publishing
Support Notices
Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice
Release 4.6.8 continues to support the Teamcenter versions below:
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:
Notes on Compatibility Updates to Creo 11 & Windchill 12/13
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".
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.
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.
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Teamcenter Version |
Java Version |
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Teamcenter 2412 |
JDK 17.0.3 |
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Teamcenter 2506 |
JDK 17.0.3 |
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Teamcenter 2512 |
JDK 21.0.3 |
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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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:
For more information on this or any previous releases, current customers can use the Anark Support Portal.