Release Notes - RLM v15.1BL2  August 4th, 2023
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This is a maintenance release of RLM v15.1.

v15.1BL2 is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.

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Notes on this release: 

- RLM web server now requires login to access.
- Running RLM as root/administrator is no longer restricted.
- This release contains 4 security fixes.
- Passwords are now case-sensitive.
- Existing rlm.pw file will need to be regenerated after updating to 15.1.
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Problems fixed in this release:

- Upgraded Mongoose to 7.11 addressing 2 critical vulnerabilities
- Fixed OpenSSL memory leaks in client library
- Fixed empty password causing shutdown when using -nows
- Fixed issue where password licenses were not shown when entering password in web server
- Fixed wrong license being checked out when checking out token licenses with a password
- Fixed modification of transfer definitions in web server
- Fixed issue where user couldn't remove checked out license using web server in certain cases
- Various security fixes in web server
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Known issues in this release

- License signing with rlmsign fails when the filename contains a non-ASCII character.
- RLM Cloud web services API fails to retrieve log files if it contains wide/8-bit characters (can still retrieve log files via web portal).
- Activating a license using the web server fails when an IP address is used as the hostid.
- Product returned from rlm_actinfo2() is incorrect if variable is not sized specifically.
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Note:  The documentation is contained in 5 manuals:

  Standard RLM Components

    * RLM Getting Started Guide - an introduction to the basic concepts of 
	license management and RLM (PDF)
    * RLM Reference Manual - the complete reference to all core RLM components 
	(PDF)
    * RLM License Administration Manual - The stand-alone License 
	Administration manual, suitable for shipment to your customers (Wiki)

  Optional RLM Components

    * RLM Activation Pro Getting Started Guide - an introduction to the RLM
	Activation Pro software (PDF)
    * RLM Activation Pro Manual - Reference for the Optional RLM Activation 
	Pro software (PDF)

  All manuals are in PDF format, and are available on the Reprise Website at:
	    http://www.reprisesoftware.com/kits/RLM_Getting_Started_Guide.pdf
	    http://www.reprisesoftware.com/kits/RLM_Reference.pdf
	    http://www.reprisesoftware.com/kits/RLM_Activation_Pro_Getting_Started_Guide.pdf
	    http://www.reprisesoftware.com/kits/RLM_Activation_Pro.pdf
	    http://www.reprisesoftware.com/kits/RLM_License_Administration.pdf


What's new
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New license keywords
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API additions
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API changes
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Options file changes
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Activation changes
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Dependency changes
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Platforms supported
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Linux on X86: CentOS 7 (x86_l2)
Linux on x64: CentOS 7 (x64_l1)
Linux on arm 64-bit: CentOS 7 (arm64_l1)

Windows 32-bit - Visual Studio 2022 (x86_w4)
Windows 64-bit - Visual Studio 2022 (x64_w4)

macOS: 11.5.2 intel 64-bit (x64_m2)
macOS: 11.4 arm 64-bit (arm64_m2)


RLM build environment
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x86_l2:
Linux 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.centos.plus.i686 #1 SMP Wed Apr 6 18:19:27 UTC 2022 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
ldd (GNU libc) 2.17

x64_l1:
Linux 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 31 23:36:51 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
ldd (GNU libc) 2.17

arm64_l1:
Linux 5.4.72-v8.1.el7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 21 17:35:36 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
ldd (GNU libc) 2.17

x86_w4:
Windows 10 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

x64_w4
Windows 10 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

x64_m2:
Darwin 20.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Wed Jun 23 00:26:31 PDT 2021; root:xnu-7195.141.2~5/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Apple clang version 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.11)

arm64_m2:
Darwin 20.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.5.0: Sat May  8 05:10:31 PDT 2021; root:xnu-7195.121.3~9/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64
Apple clang version 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.11)