In case your subscription lapses for over one year, you can reactivate it by paying a ‘Past-due renewal’ fee. Note that the renewed subscription is effective from the date your previous subscription expired.

However, to continue receiving updates after that period ends, you’d need to renew your subscription. It’s perpetual and you can still use the product. It is important to note that your license does not expire after the 1-year period ends. After that year is over, your subscription can be renewed, for a fraction of the price of a new license. That means that buying a perpetual license you get also a subscription lasting 1 full year for product upgrades to any and all new versions, including major releases. Perpetual license, 1-year subscription and renewalsĬLion will use a so-called ‘upgrade subscription-based’ licensing model which is convenient with our frequent product updates delivering new features and fixing critical issues. Hopefully, this post will make things clearer for you. But what happens after the release? We’ve received a lot of questions about licensing options. Thanks for your comments, excitements and words of encouragement.Īs we’ve already mentioned, the release candidate build requires an active license, meaning you need to start a 30-day trial period to try this RC build. Recently we’ve announced the CLion 1.0 Release Candidate build.

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