For RLMCloud, [email protected]@[email protected] does not work with HTTPS transport.

This is fixed in RLM v14.2BL5

Fix affects: client

dynamic reservations do not get removed unless there is a checkin or checkout on the product.

This is fixed in RLM v14.2BL2

Fix affects: server

rlmremove prints "User not removed no error" on a successful remove

This is fixed in RLM v14.2BL1

Fix affects: utilities

In the RLM web interface, requesting ISV server status over and over will eventually run rlm and the ISV server out of descriptors This is fixed in RLM v14.1BL4/v14.2

Fix affects: rlm

If the license server is started without a reportlog, then a reportlog is specified and a reread is done, the new reportlog does not have INUSE records

This is fixed in RLM v14.0BL1

Fix affects: server

If a server is serving 2 separate but nearly identical license pools, and a license is roamed from one, when the server is restarted each pool has the roamed license decremented from it's count

This is fixed in RLM v14.0BL1

Fix affects: server

If a flash drive is plugged into a machine, it is incorrectly identified as a virtual machine.

This is fixed in rlm v14.0BL1

Fix affects: client, server

Non-Latin characters in username do not display correctly in the rlm web interface

This is fixed in rlm v14.0BL1

Fix affects: windows client, server

For ASH licenses, even though there is a daily tolerance, the server will reject the license on the first midnight reread if the transaction with the activation server fails.

This is fixed in v13.1BL1

Fix affects: server

If a client with a wound-back clock roams a license, it succeeds. But the roamed license is unusable due to clock windback.

This is fixed in RLM v13.1BL1

Fix affects: client

Licenses which normally pool don't pool when served by a failover server

This is fixed in RLM v13.0BL2

Fix affects: server

In the Activation Pro portal: uptime stats tab appears on hostedactivation.com (should not), profile tab missing, when creating portal user, visible tabs are all set to "off".

This is fixed in RLM v13.0BL2

Fix affects: actpro portal

If there are no license files present and a reread is done through the web interface, rlm crashes.

This is fixed in RLM v13.0BL1

Fix affects: server (rlm)

Servers pool licenses with a non-zero ID with one with no ID (or a 0 ID) if everything else matches - these should not pool.

This is fixed in RLM v12.3

Fix affects: server

License servers sort licenses by _id correctly on startup, but do not sort correctly after a reread.

This is fixed in RLM v12.3

Fix affects: server

If you roam N licenses then request to roam more than N licenses, the 2nd roam succeeds and overwrites the 1st roam file, making it impossible to return the first roamed licenses.
This 2nd roam will now return RLM_EL_ALREADY_ROAMING

This is fixed in RLM v12.3

Fix affects: client

The rlmanon utility does not anonomize INUSE records in the report log.

This is fixed in RLM v12.3

Fix affects: rlmanon

If a MAX is specified in the options file for USER "*", then the max applies to the sum of all users, rather than user-by-user.

This is fixed in RLM v12.2BL2.
Fix affects: servercked out, the use count is incremented.

This is fixed in RLM v12.2BL2.
Fix affects: server

When a license is checked out from a license server serving a transferred license, if a reread is done while that license is checked out, the use count is incremented.

This is fixed in RLM v12.2BL2.
Fix affects: server

The RLM web server remembers license passwords across users, or across different browsers.

This is fixed in RLM v12.2BL2.
Fix affects: rlm

The RLM web server crashes if fields are filled in with long (> 1024 byte) strings.

This is fixed in RLM v12.2BL2.
Fix affects: rlm

If a server is set up with 2 transfer definitions for the same product, the server crashes and is restarted (continuously), resulting in inconsistent behavior

This is fixed in RLM v12.2BL2.
Fix affects: server

RLM will sometimes crash in the web server while editing license or options files. This has been reported when there is an INCLUDEALL internet line in the rlm.opt file, but could happen anytime. The reports are all on Linux systems.

This is fixed in RLM v12.1BL3.
Fix affects: rlm

UPGRADE processing makes only one pass thru the license files, so if there are multiple UPGRADE lines and they are out of order, they will not all be processed, resulting in some licenses not being upgraded.

To work around this problem, place all UPGRADE lines for a particular product into one license file, ordered from the lower versions to the higher versions.

This is fixed in RLM v12.1BL3.
Fix affects: isv server, client

rlm leaks 2 x MAXPATHLEN (~2050) bytes of memory every time a web server login is processed

This is fixed in v12.1
Fix affects: rlm

If a user with a multi-character set name is added to a named-user license, they cannot be removed in the rlm web interface.

This is fixed in v12.1
Fix affects: server

If RLM is started with a license file containing an ISV line and an uncounted license but no HOST line, the ISV server crashes on startup.

This is fixed in v12.1

A workaround is to put a HOST line in the license file.
Fix affects: server

The x64_w4 ISV server crashes on Windows 10 if the client calls rlm_init_disconn(). The crash happens the next time the client sends a message to the server. This only affects x64_w4 on Win 10.

This is fixed in v12.0BL2-p3
Fix affects: server

The x86_w4 and x64_w4 rlm crashes on Windows 10 on startup.

This is fixed in v12.0BL2-p3
Fix affects: server

Settings files don't allow setting the activation pro URL unless there is a server_roam license present. (This bug does not affect ISV server binaries, only settings files)

This is fixed in v12.1
Fix affects: isv server settings file
As a workaround, set the SERVER_ROAM license in rlm_isv_config.c. You can use this license:
#define SERVER_ROAM_LICENSE "‹LICENSE demo rlm_roam 1.0 permanent uncounted hostid=any sig=\"60P04521WWPSXMX74NQ6QY9B0EDJJFY3P4M2YX822GX5YJ95F8QX6H4R940DWMHVS5HFTQEG44\"\›"
rlm_isv_cfg_set_server_roam(handle, SERVER_ROAM_LICENSE);

A pre-v12 client cannot check out a license from a v12 server.

This is fixed in v12.0BL2-p2, which is on the website now.
Fix affects: server
As a workaround, setting the environment variable RLM_LICENSE_PASSWORD to any non-empty value will allow checkouts to proceed normally.

v12.0 HP 64-bit license servers refuse to run after being shut down; they report lockfile problems. The preferred workaround is to use a 32-bit server. If that is not practical, then delete the lockfile in /var/tmp/.rlmlockISVNAME before re-starting the server.

This is a permanent restriction.
Fix affects: 64-bit hp server.

If a user's login to the rlm web interface times out, the web interface displays "logins disabled" rather than the login screen.

Refreshing the browser will display the login screen.

This is fixed in RLM v12.0.
Fix affects: rlm.

If you have an rlm password file with "user1" and "user11" (ie, the 1st username is a substring of the second), then change password for user1, user11's password gets changed also.

This is fixed in the next release - RLM v11.3BL2 or v12.0.
Fix affects: rlm.

Can't eject a USB device while an RLM-licensed app or license server is running.

This is fixed in RLM v11.3BL1.
Fix affects: client, server.

The rlm web interface reports transactions against the wrong license pool. With a v1.0 and a v2.0 license, if the v2.0 license is checked out, the v1.0 license's transaction count is incremented. The checkout is shown in the correct place, this is only an error where the transaction is shown in the web interface.

The column previously labeled "transactions" is now labeled "checkouts".

This is fixed in RLM v11.3BL1.
Fix affects: server.

If a license file specifying an rlm port other than 5053 is present, and a second license file containing only an uncounted license is also present, rlm will bind 5053 in addition to the port specified on the HOST line. Port 5053 should not be bound in this case.

This is fixed in RLM v11.2BL3.
Fix affects: rlm.

If a license is roamed from a server which is found by broadcast (rather than license file or RLM_LICENSE), the license cannot be checked back in early - it must time out.

This is fixed in RLM v11.2BL1.
Fix affects: client

You can work around this problem using the following method:
1. determine the port # of the ISV server used to roam the license (from the debug log at the time of roam)
2. Set up the ISV server to use this port (specify the port # on the ISV line)
3. Set RLM_LICENSE to this-port#@server-host
4. Set RLM_ROAM to -1 and check out the license.

This is fixed in RLM v11.2BL1. Fix affects: server

This is fixed in RLM v11.1BL2. Fix affects: rlm

In the rlm web interface, if you filter the license status field by product, user, and/or host, these filter values are lost on a refresh.

This is fixed in v11.1BL1.
Fix affects: rlm.

If multiple instances of rlm are running on one system, logging in to the web interface of one automatically logs in to all with the same privileges.

This is fixed in RLM v11.1BL1
Fix affects: rlm

If an RLM password file is present, and a user isn't logged in to the RLM web interface, they are able to execute web interface commands if they know the correct internal URL for the command.

This is fixed in RLM v11.1BL1
Fix affects: rlm

If a windows server is shut down, it loses information about any roamed licenses.

This is fixed in RLM v11.1BL1
Fix affects: server

If 2 ISV servers are specified to use the same port in the license file, RLM crashes.

This is fixed in RLM v11.0BL1.

Fix affects: rlm

A valid disk serial number can be thrown out if it has a null model number. This is fixed in RLM v11.0BL1. Fix affects: client, server.

Duplicate uncounted licenses in separate license files are discarded by the fix to P316, but an internal error causes a double free of internally-allocated data when the handle is closed.

The workaround is to remove these duplicate license files.

This is fixed in RLM v11.0BL1.
Fix affects: client.

A system with a disk model "virtual floppy" triggers the virtual machine detection. Also "Dell VIRTUAL DISK SCSI Disk Device" causes the same problem. This is fixed in RLM v11.0BL1. Fix affects: client, server.

The RLM admin web browser will give a "not logged in" error when a user is in fact logged in, and tries to change the password. This error has been observed on 32-bit Linux platforms only. A workaround is to change the password on another system, and copy the password file to the Linux server system. This is fixed in v11.0BL1. Fix affects: rlm

The hostid list generated by _rlm_hostid_list() will be missing dongles if the number of dongles attached to the system is greater than the number of IP addresses on the system. This is fixed in RLM v11.0BL1. Fix affects: client

A counted license containing a quoted string (eg platform=) spanning lines, signed on Windows and consumed on Unix will cause an error in the checksum checking code, due to Windows carriage control. The license authenticates correctly and is served, but an error is logged to the debug log. A workaround is to run dos2unix on the license file, or remove the _ck= attribute from the license. This is fixed in RLM v11.0. Fix affects client, server.

The RLM documentation states that the server looks for the password file, rlm.pw, in the directory where the rlm binary exists, but actually it looks in the current working directory. This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL2 - rlm now (correctly) looks in the directory with the rlm binary. Fix affects: rlm

If rlm logs "Warning: rlm_path is <NULL>", the null path may cause rlm to segment fault. We believe this only happens with "-c license_file" is specified on the command line. As a workaround, run rlm from the license directory and don't specify "-c". This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL2. Fix affects: rlm

Upgrade lines aren't processed before rlm_products() is called, (unless rlm_checkout() is called first), so upgraded nodelocked, uncounted licenses in local license files are not handled correctly. This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL1. Fix affects: client.

The ISV server can hang if the following are all true:

(1) client is linked with RLM pre-v9.3

(2) client calls rlm_auto_hb() with automatic reconnection

(3) the checked-out license involved is a token-based license,

(4) the token definition is in the license file AFTER the enabling license, or is processed later in a different license file, and

(5) the reconnection handler attempts to re-acquire the license.

This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL1.

Fix affects: server.

The rlm web interface will leak memory when requesting ISV server pool status or a list of users. This is fixed in RLM v10.1. Fix affects: rlm.

If a disconnected client doesn't check with the server during it's promise interval, the server may send bad messages to other clients. This is fixed in RLM v10.1. Fix affects: server.

On windows, the ISV line: "ISV <isv> <isv>"
will not find <isv>.exe.
This is fixed in RLM v10.1.
Fix affects: server.

On Windows, a space in the DEBUGLOG path in the options file will cause an ISV server crash when a checkout is done. This is fixed in RLM v10.1. Fix affects: server.

If there are 2 pools for a license and a license is roamed from one of the pools, when the server is restarted it takes a license from both pools and can't recreate the roam handle in the 2nd pool. This happens if the 2 pools have the same product name, version, share flags, max_share, and hostid, but other license fields are different. This is fixed in RLM v10.1, however the fix invalidates older server roam files, so all roamed licenses should be returned before the upgrade. NOTE that if the licenses aren't returned, the only downside is that the roamed licenses will still be valid until they expire, and the server will allow them to be checked out from the general pool of licenses as well. Fix affects: server.

Using automatic heartbeats, if a node is disconnected from the network while a license is checked out, when it reconnects it will check out multiple licenses.

This is fixed in RLM v10.1

Fix affects: client.

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NOTE: The fix for P327 involves a change in the way rlm_get_attr_health() processes licenses with errors on their server connections. Previously, once an error was detected, the status was never updated from that error. Starting in v10.1, rlm_get_attr_health() will check the connection to the server each time it is called, even if the connection is in an error state. This means that the condition can be cleared and the license re-validated if the connection is repaired (for example, in the case of a temporary network disconnect. Please see the RLM Reference Manual for more details.

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A Linux system in GMT+0 is not recognized as being in the correct timezone even if bit 0 is set in the timezone mask. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL3. Fix affects: client and server.

If the total length of all the file names in a license file directory exceeds 10000 characters, the rlm client code will crash. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL3. Fix affects: client.

If a TIMEOUTALL option is specified and a license with a min_timeout specification follows another license with a higher (or no) min_timeout, the earlier min_timeout (or default) will be used instead of the min_timeout in the license. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL3. Fix affects: server.

When installing a Windows service, specifying append to the RLM debug log file (+<file>) results in a "can't write debug log" message and the service installation fails. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL3. Fix affects: rlm.

If broadcasting for a server, only the first operation works. Subsequent operations will fail to find the server. If a 2nd checkout is attempted, it will fail with RLM_EL_NOPRODUCT (-1). This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL3. Fix affects: client.

If there are 2 licenses which can roam, and the first license cannot satisfy the roam request (ie, all licenses are currently roamed, or the request is for more than the maximum # of roam days), then the roam will fail. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL2. Fix affects: Server.

P310 - If there are:

2 licenses of the same name, version, and hostids which otherwise don't pool (see below), and

one or more licenses from the first pool are checked out, and

then a reread is done on the server

... then the server loses track of the licenses from the first pool.

When the client checks the licenses back in, the server will access freed memory when logging the checkin message. The symptom on Windows is sometimes that the ISV server exits with an "exit 255".

This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL2.

Fix affects: server.

2 licenses will not pool if any of the following attributes do not match:

password

options

disable

share

max_share

timezones

platforms

count type (SINGLE, UNCOUNTED, COUNTED, TOKEN)

user_based

host_based

any metering parameter

If the ISV options file specifies a debug log in append mode (+filename) the ISV debug log will not be included in diagnostic output. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL2. Fix affects: server.

Roaming a license with a '/' in the product name fails with a roam data write error (-124). This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL2. Fix affects: client.

If a token-based license remains checked out when a reread is done on the server, the "requested license" field becomes invalid. This field points to deallocated memory, so subsequent requests for a userlist can cause random server problems (such as server crashes). Note that either the "rlmstat -a" command, or the license usage in the RLM web interface will request a userlist. This bug only happens when token-based licenses remain checked-out during a reread. This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL2. Fix requires: server.

In certain circumstances, rlmstat or the RLM web interface status command will not display the last license pool for an ISV server. This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL1. Fix affects: server.

License Transfer will not work if the ISV server is a settings file built with a different RLM version from the version of the rlm server binary. This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL1 Fix affects: rlm

On linux, if an RLM-licensed client is able to connect to rlm but not to the ISV server, the application will leak file descriptors, one for every rlm_checkout() request that is made (even if rlm_checkin() is called). This will also run the rlm process out of file descriptors if it continues long enough before the client process exits. This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL1. Fix affects: client.

The -x rlmdown option to rlm does not prevent the web interface from shutting down a single ISV server, if the ISV server is selected individually. This is fixed in RLM v10.1BL1. Fix affects: rlm

Rehostable licenses on Windows are invalid in Daylight Savings Time if created in Standard time, and invalid in Standard Time if created in Daylight Savings Time. This is fixed in v10.0BL1. Fix affects: client.

If:

the license file has an ISV line with an ISV path with no file extension, AND
the ISV name is <= 4 characters, AND
a settings file is in place with the .set extension

then RLM will not find the settings file.

The workaround is to add the ".set" to the ISV name in the license file, or rename the settings file to not have the .set extension.

This is fixed in RLM v10.0BL1.
Fix affects: rlm.

if the path to the license file contains the '@' character, RLM will ignore that license file. This is a permanent restriction. The RLM documentation will be updated to reflect this case.

If the license server combines 2 licenses, one unexpiring and one with an expiration date, then it will return an expiration date of "permanent" when rlm_products() or rlm_license_exp() is called. The server should return the earlier, ie, expiring license date in this case. This is fixed in v10.0BL1. Fix affects: server.

Long lines of random characters in the license file causes RLM to crash in the parser. This is fixed in v9.4BL4. Fix affects: client, server.

If a disk has a serial number of less than 8 characters and a null model number string, RLM will incorrectly report that it is running on a virtual machine. This is fixed in v9.4BL4. Fix affects: client, server.

The hostname wildcard matching feature which was scheduled to be in v9.4 did not make it into the release. This code will be in v9.4BL4 and beyond.

RLM will fail to detect a VMware Virtual Machine if the disk serial number in the VM is less than 8 characters. This is fixed in RLM v9.4BL2. Fix affects: client, server

Creating a rehostable hostid fails on windows if the reprise directory (\ProgramData\Reprise) does not exist. This is fixed in v9.4BL2. Fix affects: client.

hostids created for rehostable licenses are bad on linux and mac (and possibly other platforms, but not Windows). This is fixed in v9.4BL2. Fix affects: client.

On Windows, re-activating a product with a rehostable hostid causes the existing hostid to be overwritten and the activation count decremented on the server. If there was no remaining activation count, the old license is now invalid. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client.

A failed (rehost) activation can leave hostid on system. If an activation for a product with a rehostable hostid fails, the hostid is created and remains on the system. Subsequent activations which should succeed fail with an RLM_EH_REHOST_EXISTS error. Note that this only happens if the failure specifies an activation key which is for this product, but is no longer valid for some reason (ie, all activations are exhausted or the activation key has expired). This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client.

The server lockfile time never gets updated. This causes tmpwatch on linux to delete it. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: server.

On certain systems, with a 30 second heartbeat interval, rlm_get_atttr_health() returns 0 for many minutes after the server machine is taken off the network. Eventually it returns -20 (RLM_EL_SERVER_DOWN). This has been observed on Linux and Solaris clients. Windows clients do not exhibit this behavior. The fixed client library now correctly returns a -21 error (RLM_EL_NO_HEARTBEAT) 2 passes after the server is disconnected. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client.

options spec for multiple ISV instances doesn't work The "options=" option on the ISV line does not work for multiple ISV instances. Only the options= file for the first ISV line will be used. This is fixed in RLM v9.4BL1. Fix affects: server.

Windows systems using Avast virus scanners cause RLM activation to fail with a "BAD HTTP TRANSACTION" (-134) error. This may be caused by other virus scanners as well. A workaround is to disable the Avast "Web Shield" temporarily. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client.

Username is not processed correctly when set in rlm_set_environ(). This happens when one RLM_HANDLE is used and the username is changed from the original name that existed when connected to the server (e.g, in the first rlm_checkout() request), then the username is changed back to the original name. For example, if the original username is "joe" when the application connects to the server, then it is changed to "ted" for the next checkout, then changed back to "joe", the change back to "joe" will not work correctly and the server will process a bad username for the checkout. This same error will happen with hostnames and isv-defined data as well. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: server.

Calling rlm_act_request with a hostid list longer than can be transmitted (RLM_MAX_HOSTID_STRING, or 76 bytes) results in a license file with a hostid list where the last entry is truncated. This most likely results in an invalid hostid.

The new maximum length is RLM_MAX_HOSTID_LIST_STRING (206 bytes), including the "list: " prefix.

This is fixed in v9.4BL1.
Fix affects: client, license generator.

When an RLM client attempts to connect to a linux license server which is down, the error returned is "write error to network" instead of "connection refused. We are currently evaluating whether this is a problem which we can resolve. If so, a fix is planned for v9.4BL1.

ROAMED licenses, held licenses and licenses with minimum checkout times are all timed out by the server (they should not be timed out). When a roamed license is timed out, then expires, it can't be roamed again until the server is restarted. The client receives an RLM_EL_EXPIRED (-3) error and the ISV server logs "DENIED (FILTERED - MAX_ROAM)" This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: server

If a license file contains non-RLM license lines after the last LICENSE, the last LICENSE is not recognized. The workaround is to insert the comment character ('#') at the beginning of the non-RLM lines at the end of the file. This will be fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client and server

On Windows, if an admin user checks out a single license and checks it in, then a non-admin user can't check it out. This is due to privs on the lock file. The workaround is to delete the lock file. This will be fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client and server.

On Windows, if the application is installed in the root of the filesystem (eg c:\), and the app passes argv[0] in the 2nd arg of rlm_init(), and if there are no license files present, RLM thinks that the directory is a license file. rlm_init() returns a -102 error as it should, but it incorrectly attempts to open the directory. Also in this case the license server erroneously reports "c:" as a license file. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: client and server.

rlm.exe crashes when using the web interface to look at the ISV debug log. We have not been able to reproduce this bug. If you have seen this and can reproduce it, we would like to know the circumstances that create the bug. What was reported is this: [quote:3di2e8en]ISV server has an ISV-defined hostid which takes a relatively long time to compute, and there are 10 instances of it. The crash doesn't happen when the ISV server gets only 1 instance of the hostid.[/quote:3di2e8en] July 30 - We still cannot reproduce this bug, but a second report came in from another customer and we were able to locate the problem in the code. This bug happens only very rarely, and we do not know the situation which causes it. This is fixed in v9.4BL3. Fix requires: rlm

Licenses do not get checked in when an application exits under the following circumstances:

• The application uses 3 RLM handles,
• 1 or more licenses checked out on each handle,
• let at least a minute pass,
• exit the application.

If the preceding are all true, the licenses on 1 or 2 of the handles sometimes won't be checked in.

We believe this issue is a TCP/IP networking bug, so we have added heartbeat messages from the server which cause the non-checked-in licenses to be checked in after approximately 20 minutes when this situation occurs. The heartbeats are effective for RLM v9.3 or later clients.

You can avoid this issue entirely by either checking in all licenses before exiting, or by using a single RLM handle for all checkouts.

This issue appears primarily on Windows clients, but has been observed at a much lower failure rate on other platforms.

This is fixed in RLM v9.4BL2.
Fix affects: server, and requires a 9.3 or later client.

If the ISV server path on the ISV line specifies a .exe, and a .set is present instead, rlm will not find the .set, and the ISV server will not start. The workaround is to specify the .set file in the license file. This is fixed in v9.4BL1. Fix affects: server.

rlmreread logs a bad checksum error is there is a license with an ISV-defiined hostid in the license file. This bug is fixed in RLM v9.4. Fix affects: rlmutil In the meantime, the workaround is to remove the _ck= option from the individual license with the ISV-defined hostid.

rlmtests in the Windows enduser bundle doesn't work. The license file generated has an ISV line with a path including a .exe at the end, and the bundle includes a .set file but not an .exe. This problem first appeared in the v9.3 end-user kit. This is fixed in the current version of the 9.3 end-user kit.

If an UPGRADE license shares any nodelocked hostid in a hostid list with the license to be upgraded, the upgrade will be performed. The bug is that all hostids should match for the upgrade to be successful. This is fixed in v9.3BL2. Fix affects: client, server.

P252 - ISV line paths to ISV servers and options files are lower-cased, causing the files not to be found if uppercase characters are on the paths. This is fixed in v9.3BL2. Fix affects: server.

P251 - On Windows, disks with model numbers > 32 characters will cause a crash (C0000409 error code). This is fixed in v9.3BL2. Fix affects: client, server, rlmhostid.

P249 - rlm_auto_hb() reconnect sometimes consumes too few licenses. On reconnect (with rlm_auto_hb()), clients will sometimes get a good status even though they have not checked out a new license. This issue only happens with automatic reconnect in rlm_auto_hb(). The sequence which causes this problem is: [list:2ssragdn]- client 1 connects, receives server handle 41 - client 2 connects, receives server handle 81 - server down - client 1 tries reconnect - unsuccessful - server up - client 2 tries reconnect using handle 81 - servers refuses - client 2 tries reconnect without a handle - receives new handle 41 - client 1 tries reconnect using handle 41 (which is the same as client 2's new handle); this succeeds but without using a license[/list:u:2ssragdn] This is fixed in RLM v9.3BL2. Fix affects: client.

P247 - the windows disk serial number code will cause a debug assertion when running against the MS debug C library. This doesn't happen on all disks, but it has been reported to happen on some Seagate drives.

This bug affects the client, server, and utilities.

This is fixed in v9.2BL4.

P245 - In Activation Pro several forms issue warnings (create/edit product, edit activation key). Also, when editing activation keys, if the extra license parameters are quoted in double-quotes, the parameters don't appear in the edit form. These issues are fixed in v9.2BL2-patch1. A patch file is available on the Reprise website.

P244 - When checking out a roamed license, if clock windback is detected the error is reported as RLM_EL_EXPIRED instead of RLM_EL_WINDBACK. This is fixed in RLM v9.3. Fix affects: client.

P243 - A reread command will crash an isv server if there is an options file with a blank line after a REPORTLOG line. Also, a blank line after any options file line will cause that line to be processed twice. This is fixed in v9.2. Fix requires: server.

P242 - rlmsign crashes if an extra double quote appears at the end of a parameter string, e.g.: [list:bqrjr8r8]customer="My Cust"" [/list:u:bqrjr8r8] The workaround is to remove the extra double quote. This is fixed in v9.2. Fix requires: rlmsign

P241 - If rlm_skip_isv_down() is set, RLM will ignore (skip) license files without an ISV line. A workaround is to put an ISV line into all license files. This is fixed in v9.2. Fix requires: client.

P239 - The ISV server matches substrings of usernames in GROUPs in the ISV options file if the actual username is at the end of the specified string in the GROUP specification.

For example, username "xbobm" in a GROUP matches a checkout from username "bobm", but username "bobmx" would not match.

The same is true for HOST_GROUPS.

This is fixed in RLM v9.2BL1.
Fix requires: server.

P237 - Activation from the rlm web interface fails because it is attempting to encrypt the request, but it doesn't have the correct keys. A workaround is to set the RLM_ACT_NO_ENCRYPT environment variable before running rlm. This bug was introduced in RLM v9.0, when activation requests were first encrypted. This is fixed in RLM v9.1BL4 and v9.2BL1. Fix requires: rlm

P236 - rlmrefresh writes garbage to license files.

This is fixed in RLM v9.2BL1.
Fix requires: new rlmrefresh utility, unique to each ISV.

P235 - In the web interface, clicking Status->Server Status->Usage... causes rlm to crash if no licenses are checked out from the pool selected. This has been reported only on x86_w1. This is fixed in RLM v9.2BL1. Fix requires: rlm

OpenVPN ethernet adapter name ("TAP-Win32 Adapter") is not recognized as undesirable, and may appear near the beginning of the list of hostids. This will be fixed in v9.1BL4. Fix affects: client, rlmhostid

P230 - If a server is started without a reportlog, then rlmswitchr is used to create a reportlog, this reportlog will be closed when a reread command is sent to the server (or at the midnight reread). Then, no reporting will be done. To correct this condition, rlmswitchr will no longer work if the server is not currently writing a report log. If a server has been started without a reportlog and you wish to create one while the server is running, edit the options file to specify one then do a reread on the server. This is fixed in RLM v9.1BL3. Fix requires: server.

P227 - If rlm_log() or rlm_dlog() is called after a checkout, then that license is checked back in, a subsequent call to rlm_log() or rlm_dlog() can cause the application to crash.

This has only been reported on linux, but the bug could appear on any platform.

This is fixed in RLM v9.1BL3.
Fix requires: client.

P226 - The ISV Server crashes on Linux when trying to edit an existing options file via the RLM web interface. The workaround is to edit the options file outside the RLM web interface. This is fixed in RLM v9.1BL2. Fix requires: server

P225 - The server miscounts licenses if: (a) 2 checkouts request multiple licenses, (b) the 2 checkout requests are eligible for sharing, and (c) the 2nd checkout request can use reservations, but the first cannot. This is fixed in v9.0BL4 and v91.BL2. Fix requires: server. (Note: this problem has not been reported in the field. It was detected with new regression tests at Reprise).

P224 - disable=TerminalServer also disables Remote Desktop sessions. It should not do this, as some ISV want to allow RD without allowing TS. Added a new disable attribute "disable=TerminalServerAllowRD", which if present disables use for the license on a Terminal Server session but not on a Remote Desktop session. This is fixed in v9.1BL2. Fix requires: client.

Licenses with no replace date but with the "replace" attribute can be created with rlmsign. Also, if a license file has 2 licenses of the same name with the REPLACE attribute, and one of them is invalid (ie, it has neither a start date or an issued date), the license server will crash. The server will now disregard invalid replace licenses. (Note: these licenses previously were served). rlmsign will also give an error message and refuse to sign an invalid replace license. This is fixed in RLM v9.0BL4. Fix requires: server, rlmsign, activation generator (+ any custom license generation utility)

If a nodelocked-uncounted license is placed in a separate license file without a correct SERVER and ISV line, the license server will not process it correctly. This affects the rlm_enable_server_vm license as well as any other nodelocked, uncounted licenses. The workaround is to place all nodelocked-uncounted licenses in a license file with a SERVER and ISV line. This is fixed in RLM v9.0BL4. Fix requires: server.

P221 - If rlm is started with the -dat switch, the license files with ".dat" extensions are not found when the server rereads the license files at midnight or in response to an rlmreread command. The workaround is to use license files named with a ".lic" extension and not to use the -dat argument to rlm. This is corrected in RLM v9.0BL3. Fix requires: server.

P220 - If a hostid is not specified in the license creation function in rlc or rlmgen, the last step of license creation will cause a segment fault. The workaround is to always specify a hostid. This is corrected in RLM v9.0BL3. Fix requires: rlc/rlmgen.

P217 - If shared license is roamed multiple times (resulting in a single license use), when the server restarts, the licenses are no longer shared and consume more licenses than they should.

This problem will only occur if the sharing specification does NOT include the host ("h") specification, or if the local roam file is deleted between license checkouts.

So, for example, if you share based on user and roam 2 licenses to different hosts, this problem will appear.

This is corrected in RLM v9.0BL2.
Fix requires: server.

P215 - After a reread, the rlm web interface shows an incorrect list of license files if the license file names have changed. This is corrected in RLM v9.0BL2. Fix requires: rlm

ISV lines in the old (pre-v9) format with embedded spaces will not work properly on Windows. To work around this, use the new keyword=value parameters on the ISV line. For example, the line: ISV isvname "c:\a\b c" will work, but ISV isvname "c:\a\b c" "c:\a\opt file" will not work. Instead of the second line, use a line of the form: ISV isvname binary="c:\a\b c" options="c:\a\opt file" you can also add the port=port# parameter to the line as well. See the new documentation on the ISV line format. This bug was introduced in v9.0BL1 (beta), and is fixed in v9.0BL2 Fix requires: server and rlmsign (any license generator).

P213 - The fix for P185 did not correct detached demo file names when the ISV name contains a 'y' character (the resulting detached demo file names contain the '|' character, which is illegal on some windows systems). This has been corrected in RLM v9.0BL1. Fix requires: client

P208 - If rlm_log() or rlm_dlog() is called before the first rlm_checkout() request is made, the client does not transmit its list of hostids to the server, and any nodelocked checkout which uses a license on the license server will fail.

This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1.
Fix requires: client.

P207 - If 2 or more sharable nodelocked licenses are present in the same license file, sharing will only work on the machine whose license is the last license listed in the license file. This bug was introduced in v8.0 with the optimized sharing capability. This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1. Fix requires: server.

P206 - The rlmhostid command (and application code that attempts to retrieve the hostid) can go into an infinite loop on certain systems which return the loopback address (127.0.0.1) in their network lookup code. This has only been reported on the WINE windows emulator on linux systems; not on any native systems. This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1. Fix requires: client.

P204 - All of RLM treats usernames as case-insensitive (in fact, usernames are converted to all lowercase in the license server), however the named-user list processing in the server treated usernames as case-sensitive. This means that if a user is added to the named user list with incorrect case ("Joe" rather than "joe"), a checkout request from "joe" will fail. Also, if the user "Joe" is removed from the list, the user "joe" will still not be allowed to checkout the product until the # of minutes has passed until user "Joe" can be re-added to the list. This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1. Fix requires: server.

P203 - After checking out a detached demo license, the rlm_license_stat() call will work correctly, however the rlm_get_attr_health() call will return -1 instead of 0. This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1. Fix requires: client.

P202 - The RLM web interface is subject to cross-site scripting attacks. This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1. Fix requires: rlm.

P201 - If an ISV option to rotate a report log is present in the ISV options file, but there is no report log specified, then the ISV server will crash when the time to rotate the report log arrives. The workaround is to always specify a report log if you are specifying a rotate option. This is fixed in rlm v9.0BL1. Fix requires: server.

P199 - If both INCLUDE and INCLUDEALL end-user options are specified, any user/host who is not on both lists will not be allowed to use the product (or in the case of rlm, the capability, such as status, reread, etc). This is true for both RLM and ISV options. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL6. Fix requires: server. The workaround is to not use both INCLUDE and INCLUDEALL in the same options file, or, if this is required, any user on an INCLUDE line will need to be listed on an INCLUDEALL line as well.

P197 - If rlm processes license files which have bad path information for an ISV server, the rlm web interface will report that this server is down once for every license file which has a bad path, until it encounters a license file with a good path. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL4. Fix requires: rlm

P196 - On Windows if rlmutil is invoked with a forward slash instead of a backslash separating the last two path components, rlmutil will fail. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL4. Fix requires: rlmutil

P194 - In the Windows installers for rlm and rlm embedded, if a bad path was specified for the key pair files no error message was given and the installer went on without copying the key pair. The installers now print an error message in this situation. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL4. Fix requires: N/A

P193 - RLM server diagnostics can cause an infinite loop writing to the logfile. We have only seen this problem on Windows systems. If the rlm server is started with a -dlog specification (this happens when running rlm as a service on Windows), then the diagnostics command is run from the web interface specifying an invalid output file, the log file will be written in an infinite loop. The workaround is to always specify a valid output file name. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL4. Fix requires: rlm.

P192 - If the total length of all hostids in an application exceeds approximately 200 bytes when the application attempts to check out a roaming license, the application may crash. This will usually only happen if the application has more than about 100 bytes of ISV-defined hostids. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL4. Fix requires: client.

P191 - The rlmanon utility produces an empty output file. This is fixed in rlm v8.0BL4. Fix requires: rlmanon.

P190 - IP addresses reported by RLM are incorrect on several platforms. (they are reported in reverse order). This means that previous licenses created for these hostids will no longer work and new licenses created for these hostids will not work in the future. The affected platforms are all PPC and Sparc-based platforms: [list:1ose79k1] sun_s1 sun64_s1 ibm_a1 ibm64_a1 ppc_l1 ppc64_l1 ppc_m1[/list:u:1ose79k1] This problem was introduced in RLM v8.0 and is corrected in RLM v8.0BL4. Fix requires: client and server (and utilities).

P189 - If an ISV options file specifies a report log when the server is started, then the report log specification is removed from the options file and the server processes a reread request, the original report log will not have its final AUTH record appended. This is corrected in RLM v8.0BL4. Fix requires: server.

P188 - the RLM_PROJECT environment is passed to the server using it's original case (upper/lower), however, the server options which use project compare the client's project to a lowercase version of the project string. Therefore, any RLM_PROJECT setting with uppercase letters will not be processed correctly by the server for its options. Beginning in RLM v8.0BL4, the case of the project variable will be preserved, but the comparison will be done in a case-insensitive manner. This is corrected in RLM v8.0BL4. Fix requires: server.

P186 - A thread synchronization error can cause a server to crash when failover servers are enabled. This has never been reported in the field; it was found in internal testing at Reprise. This has been corrected in RLM v8.0BL3. Fix requires: server

P185 - Detached demo files sometimes contain the '|' character, which is illegal on some windows systems. This is a rare case which only occurs if there is a 'y' in the ISV name or a '{' in the product name. This has been corrected in RLM v8.0BL3. Fix requires: client

P184 - Roamed compound token-based license failure. If a compound token-based license (one with multiple primary licenses) is roamed, and the license server is not restarted before the roamed license is returned, then only the first primary license is returned. Note that all the primary licenses are returned correctly if the license server is re-started between the time the roamed license is checked out and the time it is returned. In other words, this bug only appears if the server remains up between the time of checkout and return of the roamed license. This bug was introduced with the fix for P158 in RLM v7.0BL4. This has been corrected in RLM v8.0BL3. Fix requires: server

P183 - Options for the rlm web interface (include, exclude, etc) based on hostname sometimes do not work on Windows. This happens when the hostname is mapped by DNS (ie, not in a local hosts file) - in this case, Windows returns the hostname in all uppercase. This has been corrected in RLM v8.0BL2. Fix requires: rlm

P182 - rlm restrictions on shutdown and reread apply correctly to the rlm server itself, however, a user who is not allowed to perform these operations can shut down or reread an ISV server. This is fixed in v8.0BL2. Fix requires: rlm

P181 - End-user rlm options based on IP addresses sometimes do not work. This will be the case whenever a system has multiple IP addresses, and an option based on an IP address which is not the IP address used to communicate with the license server is used. This is fixed in v8.0BL2. Fix requires: rlm and rlm utilities.

P179 - When parsing a LICENSE line containing "<keyword>=<value>", and the <value> portion is required but missing, RLM will crash. For example, "hostid=" (value required) will cause the crash, whereas "replace=" (value not required) will not. The workaround (prior to v8.0BL2) is to supply the missing value. This is fixed in v8.0BL2. Fix requires: client and server.

P178 - RLM does not always retrieve every IP address for a computer. On some systems the calls RLM uses to retrieve IP addresses fail to return all the system's IP addresses. (P151 fixed some systems where the hostname is configured on the loopback address (127.0.0.1), but the fix did not work on all Unix systems.) RLM will now scan all the interfaces and report the IP address of each interface, but not the loopback interface. This is fixed in v8.0BL2. Fix requires: client and server.

P177 - Licenses which are nodelocked to string= or sn= hostid types (in other words, which are not locked to anything) cannot be checked out if they are being served by a license server. These licenses work fine if they are in a local license file. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: server.

P175 - Licenses with usernames which contain the RLM illegal characters (&, >, <, and ") are not processed correctly. RLM previously converted all usernames to lowercase and spaces in usernames to "_". Now these 4 special characters will be converted to A, G, L, and Q, respectively. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: client, server.

P174 - License files which contain a string with an embedded " #" will, in some cases, not be processed correctly. This is due to the fact that the license parser sometimes splits this string into a line which starts with the "#" character, which is then treated as a comment when the license is read back in. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: client, server.

P173 - Reservations for IP addresses (INTERNET) do not work correctly. These reservations can be used by any user just as if no reservation is present. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: server.

P172 - Compound token-based licenses which contain both an unshared license as well as a shared license do not operate correctly. Specifically, license sharing does not work on the shared license. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: server.

P171 - rlm will crash while writing the license file from an activation (using the web interface). The conditions under which this happens are unknown, and it has been reported on Windows only. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: rlm.

P169 - If rlm is started with the "-dlog +debug_log" option, the file "debug_log" is overwritten rather than appended. This is fixed in RLM v8.0BL1. Fix requires: rlm.