News from March, 2008

Judging by some of the support requests we are seeing, there is some confusion about how the builder licensing works.

FREE licenses

Builder will run for free without requiring a license key to be installed on all non-commercial, non-academic licensed confluence installs.

In other words if your install is running a community, demonstration, developer, evaluation, non-profit, open-source or personal license then you do not need a license key.

DEMO licenses

Builder will run in a fully functional, free demonstration mode for 40 days from the date of your confluence license's generation.

If you have a confluence license outside of this period, then you should generate a developer license from your commercial/academic one and use it for the duration of your tests.

Release Celebration

In celebration of the release of Builder 3.0.0 we are giving away a three month unlimited builder license key! See the downloads page for more information

The first patch release for builder 3.0 is out, it contains fixes for exceptions thrown by webui menulinks (menu being displayed as markup), stores session data differently (white pages) and numerous other tweaks that inevitably weren't picked up during beta testing.

Get it here

We've simplified our pricing for clustered Theme Builder licenses, upgrades and renewals...

Previously, we had Enterprise Node and Unlimited node licenses - a license was required for each node on a clustered Confluence install.

We've merged these licenses in to a new "Cluster" license that will work for any number of nodes and unlimited users in a single Confluence cluster.

We've done this for the following reasons:

1. There was utter confusion at Adaptavist, our resellers and customers when trying to work out what license was required for a clustered install - in particular, maintenance extensions and upgrades was a nightmare
2. Almost all clustered licenses we sell are for 2-node clusters - having granular node licenses was overkill
3. Existing customers may have noticed our licensing provision is less than responsive - we're simplifying it.

The price is a little higher – clustered installs generate some of the more challenging support requests we get (eg. "we've created 600 theme layouts and the layout manger is running a little slow") so we've doubled our company size (literally) in the past 14 days to handle the increased workload.

The new prices can be found in our Shop.

Thanks to Chris Paquin, you can now view all of the 800+ PNG icons bundled with Builder 3.x online...

Lots of icons! It takes a while to load...