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New Release – RLM Version 17.0

  • By Michael Brownson
  • April 18, 2025

We are excited to announce the release of RLM version 17.0!

 

RLM version 17.0 brings RLM Cloud ID licensing functionality to the RLM client. With the new ID licensing functionality, end-users can be assigned directly to one or more license servers, allowing them to access their entitlements with just a username and password.

 

ID licensing is currently in open beta, if you would like to have this functionality in your RLM Cloud instance, please contact support@reprisesoftware.com.

 

The latest release also brings multiple bug fixes and security enhancements. Additionally, named users can now be viewed and removed from the license server with rlmutil.

 

See the What’s New for all the details.

 

 

If you are not a customer yet, request a free trial or contact us at sales@reprisesoftware.com.

 

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RLM and RLM
Activation Pro

What’s the difference?

Reprise License Manager (RLM)

Software License Manager

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

As a Software publisher, you integrate RLM into your product, and RLM keeps track at runtime of who is using the licenses of your software.

RLM can do this entirely within the client library (linked into your application), or, more commonly, your application makes a request of the RLM Lincese Server to check out a license.

The lincese server runs either on your customers network, or in the cloud if you are using our RLMCloud™ service.

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

RLM Activation Pro

Software Activation Manager

Activation Pro is
used once when your customer purchases your software in order to retrieve the license which is specific to that customer.

Software Activation’s purpose in life is to get the licenses for your product to your customers with a minimum of fuss.

Activation Pro also has a server component wich we call the activation server.

Your application contacts the activation server and supplies a short text activation key, and in exchange, the activation server returns the license which enables your product.

Generally, this is done once, right after your customer purchases your software, not every time your software is invoked.