February 21, 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 4.6.0 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. Note the next release will be 4.6.1.
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:
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. Please contact Anark Support if you have any questions about this or the content of any release.
Here is also a downloadable PDF version of Release 4.6.0 information
Anark Release 4.6.0
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 4.6.0.
Features and Enhancements
Anark Collaborate
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
Anark Workstation and Anark Publish
CAD Integrations and Publishing
PLM Integrations and Publishing
Support Notices
Siemens Teamcenter Support Notice
Release 4.6.0 now supports the Teamcenter versions below:
Support for Teamcenter 2412 is planned for the next release, 4.6.1.
Please note that support for Teamcenter 13.1 is deprecated and will be removed from release 4.6.2.
Siemens NX Support Notice
Anark has added support for NX2412.
PTC Windchill Support Notice
Release 4.6.0 now supports the Windchill versions below:
Starting from the next release, 4.6.1, support will be added for the following windchill versions:
PTC Creo Support Notice
Correction: In the previous release version 4.5.90 (and this release 4.6.0), support has been added for Creo 11. Formal support for Creo Version 7 has been removed. The oldest formally supported version of Creo is 8.
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