Category: Licenses
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3CX Cert Changes – AKA I Hope You Like Reinstalls
In March 2023, 3CX release v18 Update 7 (stable). This version is widely known as the compromised version and in April of 2023 3CX released v18 Update 7A. This build is tagged as Alpha and 3CX states that Alpha builds should not be installed on production systems. Following 7A, 3CX released another build, also known…
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3CX EOLs Maintenance Agreements AKA Goodbye to Forever
On June 26th, 3CX published a new blog post detailing how, effective immediately, they were no longer selling maintenance agreements. This announcement caught users and 3CX partners off guard, as there had been no warnings or time given before the announcement and when 3CX stopped sales. Maintenance agreements are important to perpetual license holders as…
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3CX License Activation – AKA Perpetually Subscribed
Like many companies, 3CX requires their software to call home for activation. This is all fine, except it needs to continue to call home to maintain it’s activated status. Failed call homes will cause 3CX to revert to a free license… and with it, loss of features. The problems start when 3CX turns off the…