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August 8, 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 Release 4.6.3 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 is 4.6.4 planned for later 2025.
Please contact Anark Support if you have any questions about this or the content of any release.
Anark Release 4.6.3
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 4.6.3, you must uninstall 4.5.80 and then install 4.6.3.
Features and Enhancements
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Anark Collaborate has undergone architecture-level improvements and simplifications that will make the product faster and more reliable while preserving current product functionality. We have removed Redis, SAMBA, simplified NGINX, and reduced the number of microservices involved. We are hosting discussions with a handful of customers about these changes and if we have not yet scheduled one with you, please Contact Anark and send us a note.
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Support for NodeJS 22, MongoDB 8.0 and NGINX 1.27 was added.
- Work was started on release improvements to simplify product installation through better automation of typical customer configurations. This will become available later in 2025.
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
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Support was added for NX 2506
PLM Integrations and Publishing
Teamcenter Reference Integration:
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Teamcenter-NX Data Publishing: Support for Teamcenter 2506 was added
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Teamcenter-NX Data Publishing: Enhancements were made to avoid CAD Data Re-Export during a republishing job with the assumption that the required CAD data already exists in the staging directory. This capability is specifically helpful when a request is re-submitted from the Dispatcher Administrative Console. The feature is supported for recipe-based publishing and is controlled via translator.xml using with two new options: cad_data_re_export and default_a.
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Teamcenter-NX Data Publishing: Introduced a time tracking file in the staging directory that records the time taken by various translation component steps. The tracking process is controlled by a preference called ANARK_translation_time_tracker_file_name. This will improve the ability of administrators to track and optimize publishing performance.
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Teamcenter-NX Data Publishing: Enhanced logging is now available to help validate server accessibility for situations where a translation is incomplete. Module translation logs now include accessibility status of all Anark publish servers (including scenarios where multiple publish servers configuration options are available). Enhanced logging will allow customers to streamline and optimize highly complex Technical Data publications processes that can involve high volumes, large models, advanced Model-Based features and more.
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Teamcenter-Creo Data Publishing: Now supporting Teamcenter 2506 for publication of any Anark Release 4.6.3 supported Creo versions to 3D PDF documents.
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Teamcenter-Creo Data Publishing: If you were not aware, Anark recently added Teamcenter-Creo Data Publishing capabilities in Release 4.6.2 and Look Here!
Windchill Reference Integration:
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We are always fixing things but nothing significantly new was added for this release. If you missed it, please see the significant enhancements in Release 4.6.2
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.
Anark Collaborate
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Addressed a known issue with templates and animations.
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
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Corrected the display of the “ALL OVER” symbol from Creo in Workstation for 3D PDF publications (Support ticket 2671).
CAD Integrations and Publishing
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Fixed an problem with JT data where PMI highlighting was not working.
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2D arrow heads were not properly displayed on a surface in NX models and this was addressed (Support ticket 8234).
PLM Integrations and Publishing
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Teamcenter improvements listed above
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Creo 11 with Anark Windchill Reference Integrations 12/13 issue is posted below and this will be fixed in Release 4.6.4 as Anark has since tested and confirmed updates from PTC that corrected a known issue.
Support Notices
Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice
Release 4.6.3 continues to support the Teamcenter versions below:
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2412 (For both NX and Creo Data)
- 2506 (For both NX and Creo Data and note that this does not include the Active Workspace Client. AWC support is planned for Release 4.6.4)
Please note that support for the Teamcenter versions below has been removed:
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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 4.6.3 continues to support the Windchill versions below:
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12.1.2.0
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13.1.0.0
Support for the Windchill versions below has been removed:
- 12.0.2.x
- 13.0.0.x
Support for 13.1.1.0 is tentatively planned for Release 4.6.4.
PTC Creo Support Notice
The current implementation of the Anark developed 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 fixed in Creo 11.0.5.0. Creo 11.0.5.0 has been tested by Anark, and the next release of the Anark - Windchill reference integration (likely version 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. 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.
- 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:
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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.
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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.
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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)
- Lo-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 and PLM Integrations
- Anark support of industry events, MBD, 3D PDF, MIL-STD-31000B, DoDI 5000.97, ASME Y14.x
- Support for DMSC Model Based Characteristics.
- New Fall 2025 rollout of Content Based Collaboration where markup, notes, more are directly associated with Anark Collaborate Model Based Content.
For more information on this or any previous releases, current customers can use the Anark Support Portal.
