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I received a license upgrade. What now?

I have a file called “license.new”. Why am I getting the error message “Invalid license”?

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QF-Test license information explained

The version number of QF-Test and in the license file – How are they related?

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Covid-19 and home office at QFS

One of our colleagues tells about his experiences with Covid-19 and home office here at Quality First Software Gmbh in 2020.

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The license server was shut down and still uses only the old license

OK, this is a really special case, but with the increasing use of the QF-Test license server this case is happening more often. The license server just has to be reachable by all QF-Test instances, which use a compatible client license for the server license. When starting, they ask explicitly just this license server if the requested license is still available.

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“license”, “license.new”, “license.txt”, “license.dat”, “license.old”, “license.server” … Who’s gonna know about that?

Indeed, it is quite confusing if you would take a look how the supposed license files attached to emails are arriving. Although it is actually quite simple …

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