As I start my first workday of 2012, I’d like to wish everybody a fruitful year and give some updates on Padlock. Overall, 2011 was a very quiet year for Padlock with only a minor release in April that primarily fixed some outstanding character encoding/decoding issues. 2012 will have much more activity, as [...]
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The first release of 2011, Padlock 2.2 is out and available for
download. All customers are urged to upgrade both their backend
version and their version in the field. This update adds new
capability to the DefaultMacAddressProvider and fixes a major bug with
locales during license signing and validation:
Mac Addresses:
It’s now possible to view and update the list [...]
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Just a quick note to you guys that Padlock 2.1.2 is now available for download from the Padlock site. This fixes a rare bug that may affect those who import Licenses from a String using LicenseIO.importLicense(String). Specifically, license importation may fail if the end user has a non-standard CharSet and one [...]
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Padlock 2.1.1 has been officially released. This version is a minor update that fixes a rare but show stopping bug. Specifically, those using the Bouncy Castle JCE who are validating Padlock legacy (1.x) licenses. Users fitting the above description will not be able to validate their licenses within their respective applications.
All Padlock [...]
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It is once again my pleasure to announce another release of the Padlock License Manager for Java. This release in particular gives me great joy as it has support for Java 1.5 right out of the box, including the MAC address locking previously only supported with Java 1.6+.
Hardware locking on Java 1.5 is made [...]
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Padlock 1.3 is now available from the Padlock Download page. This point release contains two bug fixes that affects various end users in the field. All Padlock 1.x customers are encouraged to update their build dependencies with Padlock 1.3 when possible.
Both bugs are related to date modification detection:
1) The first bug manifests itself as a [...]
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It’s with great excitement that I announce Padlock’s first open source initiative – Padlock License Vault.
The short story: Padlock’s License Vault is a new technology for the storage and archival of both Padlock keys and licenses. It’s based on the venerable Apache CouchDB. For those unfamiliar with CouchDB, it’s an Erlang based document server that utilizes JSON [...]
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Padlock 2.0.2 is officially available today, and contains several minor bug fixes. Users who utilize Padlock Manager are encouraged to update.
Fixes:
- Fix in Padlock Core for two bugs 1) Padlock API did not offer a method to set the location of the Padlock.lic file and 2) KeyManager import was not throwing an exception when [...]
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Padlock 2.0.1 is now available for download. This minor update fixes a bug in the core library affecting only a small subset of users.
Specifically: Padlock 1.x customers who were attempting to use their older, RSA based licenses for Padlock 2.0 were getting validation errors. This update corrects this and allows them to use their [...]
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It’s the result of 9 months of work, but the new Padlock License
Manager 2.0 is now available. Padlock has been rewritten from the
ground up to be more flexible, extensible, and feature filled. I’m
proud to say that Padlock now offers:
A new DSA based license format. This means Padlock now works out of
the box [...]
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