I have received an email from McNeel titled, “Your old Rhino license isn’t dead yet, but…”
The line in the email, “the bad news is, we would love to help but…
Because after 20 years, technology has moved on:”, implies that the email is referring to licences 20 years and older.
Also is this line, “There will be no further service releases with bug fixes or security patches.”
Given that I, probably like many others, have purchased numerous licences over the years, I would appreciate it if McNeel would specify to which version of Rhino are they referring to when advising that no further bug fixes or security patches will be attended to.
As far as bugs in the software itself are concerned, that applies to Rhino V7 and earlier. However, 20 years old implies something like V2-V3…
Earlier versions may indeed be valid, but are not necessarily guaranteed to run on current OS’es.
As far as the licenses themselves, every legitimate license of an earlier version of Rhino is valid for an upgrade. And McNeel will handle support cases concerning license keys as far back as their database permits.
In the e-mail you received there’s a link where you can see all the licences you bought and how you upgraded them in the years (the link goes to Rhino - License Report ).
My report told me that all the Rhino Licences are upgraded so I think the only one that they see not upgraded is an old Flamingo license that is “dead” ‘cause Flamingo is dismissed… but if McNeel whant to give me the option to transform that Flamingo license into a Rhino 8 upgrade… I would be happy to accept
v8 is the current version, it is the only version of Rhino that will have any ongoing service releases or security patches, (until newer version ship. )
The development for all older version is considered closed.
