Compatibility Information

Control WIN: licensing with WIBU CodeMeter (CDS-35697)

CODESYSControlService does no longer use the 3S license manager and does no longer check for
Aladin-hardlocks. CodeMeter (means: Wibu-keys) is the only supported licensing method from now on.
Tools / License Manager in CODESYS:
The license manager user interface integrated in CODESYS versions before V3.5 SP4 will no longer work
correctly after installing 3.5 SP4. The licenses themselves are not affected and will still work.
(The reason for this misbehavior is the installation of an empty Soft-license-container for usage with
CODESYS Control Win V3 resp. RTE V3, which is not recognized correctly.)
The possible workarounds to use the integrated user interface to the CodeMeter license manager are:
- Use the license manager of V3.5 SP4. (Recommended!)
- In rare cases where usage of the license manager of a CODESYS version before V3.5 SP4 is definitely
required: Remove the empty soft-license container using CodeMeter control center.
Visu: Rotating texts (CDS-26804)
On devices supporting rotation of texts, texts on polygon elements that are rotated by the interior rotation
will be rotated now too. To keep a similar behaviour of the rectangular and polygonal elements, it was
necessary to introduce this slight incompatibilty that might affect existing projects. Nevertheless, texts on
rotated elements are probable used seldomly as rotated polygons are usually used to draw any kind of
meter element etc. If this should be a problem in an existing project, then the workaround is to separate
the text from the polygon into a rectangle element that is not rotated.