Anark 4.6.1 Release Announcement - April 2, 2025

April 2, 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 admins, and expand features for end users. Our latest release includes enhancement requests from customers like you, planned product features that improve the value of our products, and product changes that open new use cases to our customers.

Anark Release 4.6.1 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 main reason behind the new release numbering scheme 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. Please contact Anark Support if you have any questions about this or the content of any release.

Here is a downloadable PDF version of the Release 4.6.1 information

Anark Release 4.6.1

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 4.6.0, you must uninstall 4.5.80 and then install 4.6.1.

Features and Enhancements

Anark Collaborate

• Added support for multi-file uploads to My Files/Activities, and enabled use of the application while the uploads are in progress. (3099)
• Added support for Contextualized (3D) Markup tools. (6096)

PLM Integrations and Publishing

• Teamcenter - Added support for 3D PDF, Anark Collaborate, and package-based publishing in TC 2412.
• Teamcenter - Introduced an interface to select the appropriate recipe and template during publishing from Active Workspace in Teamcenter 2312 and 2406. Please note that the recipe/template selection interface is not supported in TC 14 and TC 2412
• Windchill - Added Anark Collaborate publishing with support for password-based encryption.

Bug Fixes

Customer feedback and continuous improvement are an important part of how we develop our products. Thank you to all who have recently submitted support tickets so we can deliver you the best overall product quality. The support ticket number is included with the item where appropriate.

Anark Collaborate

• Fixed an issue displaying cross section caps in both Collaborate, Workstation, and Publish when importing data from Creo. (11630)
• Resolved adaptive degradation where slow rendering performance was occuring. (12363)

Anark Workstation and Anark Publish 

• Addressed an issue displaying cross section caps in both Collaborate, Workstation, and Publish when importing data from Creo. (11630)
• Fixed an issue where importing some Creo 10 models failed. (12025)

CAD Integrations and Publishing 

• Corrected an issue with missing static views when importing from NX. (4197)
• Fixed an issue with semantic highlighting not working for some views when importing from NX. (5312)
• Addressed assembly section views not appearing correctly when importing from JT. (7772)

PLM Integrations and Publishing

• Teamcenter – Rectified an issue causing Anark Collaborate re-publishing to fail during URL uploads.
• Windchill - Resolved the log hijacking issue by implementing the configurations using log4jmethodserver.properties configuration file.

Support Notices

Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice

Release 4.6.1 now supports the Teamcenter versions below:

• 14
• 2312
• 2406
• 2412

Please note that support for the Teamcenter versions below is deprecated and will be removed from release 4.6.2.

• 14
• 2312

Support for 2506 is tentatively planned for 4.6.4 release.

Siemens NX Support Notice

Anark has added support for NX2412.

Support for 2506 is tentatively planned for 4.6.4 release.

PTC Windchill Support Notice

Release 4.6.1 now supports the Windchill versions below:

• 12.1.2.0

• 13.1.0.0

Please note that support for the windchill versions below is deprecated and will be removed from release 4.6.2.

• 12.0.2.x
  
  
• 13.0.0.x

Support for 13.1.1.0 is tentatively planned for 4.6.4 release.

PTC Creo Support Notice

The current implementation of the Anark - Windchill reference integration for Windchill 12.x and 13.x does not support publishing with Creo 11. This is due to a bug that PTC is aware of and has fixed in Creo 11.0.5.0, planned for release in June 2025.  Anark has confirmed this with support from PTC. Once Creo 11.0.5.0 is released in June and tested by Anark, the next release of the Anark - Windchill reference integration (likely version 4.6.3 or 4.6.4) will support publishing with Creo 11.  Please note that there are no known problems using Anark Workstation directly with the Creo 11 MBD Adapter.

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 6 and 7. Per the Mongo schedule, they will remove support for MongoDB 6 in July 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.

• 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

Our PLM integrations support the Java Runtime 11 LTS and 17 LTS (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html)

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

• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Lo-Code Template Introduction
• Measurement
• Anark Collaborate for DODI Digital Engineering 5000.97
• Anark 3Di (3D PDF) TDP's for MIL-STD-31000B with ITI CADIQ Validation
• Performance improvements to both MBD Adaptors and PLM Integrations
• Anark support of industry events, MBD, 3D PDF, MIL-STD-31000B, DoDI 5000.97 and more.

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