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One Year Upgrade/Support

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If you purchase a one-year upgrade, you can install all new releases available within next year. After expiration of one-year upgrade, your license remains fully functional. However, you cannot install new versions anymore – except minor releases. You can renew upgrading whenever you decide. The one-year upgrade can be purchased in our on-line store, the same way as a full license.
The one-year upgrade can be purchased optionally together with a full license. Later, you can purchase upgrade separately. Minor releases, available still after expiration of one-year upgrades, has changed only the latest number of VariCAD version. For instance, if the 2024-1.04 is the current version, a minor release is 2024-1.05. Contrary to this, 2024-2.0 or 2025-1.0 is a major release not available after expiration of upgrades.
VariCAD under Linux - Debian packages: Upgrading to a higher version (like from VariCAD 2023 to VariCAD 2024) requires first to remove the current package, and then to install the new package. From now on, upgrades to higher versions are performed automatically - after approval by the user. More specifically, these are upgrades from version 2024 or higher. If you want to upgrade from a lower version than 2024, you still need to uninstall/install the packages. Debian distribution packages are also used in the most common Linux Ubuntu.