--- title: Release Notes description: The latest OpenLM Platform feature releases, improvements, and bug fixes. product: OpenLM Platform --- ## OpenLM Platform — next release *Coming soon · C* The next OpenLM Platform release reshapes the post-login experience. A redesigned Homepage replaces the QuickSight lobby with operational signal you can act on, Agent Activity Manager turns mass upgrades into a single action across your fleet of Workstation Agents, License File Management brings editing, validation, and deployment of license files into one workspace, and the OpenLM MCP Connector opens your reporting data to AI assistants for plain-language queries. ### New Homepage dashboard The post-login screen is no longer a lobby of nav tiles — it is a real operational dashboard. The QuickSight-backed Homepage has been replaced with a native Angular widget grid that surfaces license health, denial volume, and pool utilization the moment you sign in. First paint is faster, the cloud-only dependency is gone, and every widget plugs into a shared shell so loading, empty, and error states behave the same way across the board. See the [Homepage changelog](https://openlm.com/documentation/cloud/changelog/cloud/homepage) for the full per-version history. - KPI summary cards for license servers offline and denied requests, each with a one-click deep link into the underlying view. - License Servers Status donut breaking your fleet down into Healthy, Pending, and Error states, so a single outage no longer hides behind an aggregate. - Top 5 Denied Features and Top 5 Features in Use, side by side — see where demand is hitting the ceiling and where engineering teams are spending the budget. - Top 5 Saturated and Top 5 Underutilized License Pools, side by side — surface reclaim opportunities without writing a custom report. - Usage trend and Upcoming expirations & renewals widgets, plus a severity-aware alert bar that surfaces critical signal at the top of the page. - Take the Tour guided walkthrough for first-time admins, and a Software License Monitoring (SLM) activation gate that shows a clear lock card instead of empty widgets when SLM is inactive. ### OpenLM MCP Connector OpenLM now speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI assistants to live business data. Point Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or any other MCP-aware client at your tenant, sign in once with OAuth, and ask questions in plain language: *"Which features were denied most often last month?"*, *"Show me underused AutoCAD seats by office."* The OpenLM MCP Connector translates your prompt into a GraphQL query against your reporting database and returns tables, summaries, or — on higher-tier AI plans — fully interactive dashboards. No new BI tool to learn, no exported CSVs, no hand-built filters. Your reporting data, conversational. Endpoints are provided for both regions — `https://cloud-us.openlm.com/mcp` for US and `https://cloud-eu.openlm.com/mcp` for EU. See the [OpenLM MCP Connector documentation](https://openlm.com/documentation/cloud/category/openlm-mcp-connector) for client setup and the full tool reference. ### Mass upgrade Workstation Agents from Agent Activity Manager Updating Workstation Agents one machine at a time is over. From Agent Activity Manager, select any subset of agents across your fleet, pick a target Workstation Agent version, and trigger the upgrade in a single action. There is no per-machine MSI work, no need to touch endpoints individually, and rollout progress is visible in one place. Use it to deploy a hotfix to a single team, stage a phased rollout, or move an entire organization onto the latest agent on the same day. ### License File Management (LFM) LFM brings license-file editing, validation, and deployment into one place. Work safely with drafts before you push, see each file's parsed features as a structured table, compare versions at both the text and feature level, and let LFM keep license-file to license-server links in sync with SLM — triad-aware, with a full per-file event history. See the [License File Management](https://openlm.com/documentation/cloud/lfm) documentation for the full feature reference. - Automatic synchronization between LFM and SLM, keeping license server names in sync with license files (including triad members). - License file history with a per-file event timeline covering drafts, deployments, deactivations, and deletions. - Parsed license features shown as a structured table — feature name, vendor, version, license type, start and expiration dates, quantity, and key. - Compare different versions of the same license file: side-by-side raw-text comparison and a parsed-features table comparison that highlights added, removed, and changed features. - Pre-validation of license files before pushing to Broker Hub, with file-text verification and warning detection (structural, semantic, and server-availability checks). ### License Access Control (LAC) LAC graduates from observation to enforcement. A new Agent enforcement engine prevents license consumption from workstations that are not running the Workstation Agent, bulk rule creation eliminates the per-rule call pattern that made large-option-file onboarding painful, and SaaS license servers join the supported targets for policy deployment. Deployment itself is more resilient, and the audit trail is finally complete. See the [License Access Control changelog](https://openlm.com/documentation/cloud/changelog/cloud/license-access-control) for the full per-version history. - **Agent enforcement (minimum viable product).** LAC now correlates allocations against Agent Activity Manager to detect workstations consuming licenses without an active Workstation Agent. When the new global enforcement toggle is on, the next deployment skips allocations for those workstations — restoring accurate consumption data for high-value licenses and turning OpenLM from a passive observer into an active compliance control. Detection distinguishes a temporarily offline Agent from a missing one, so a brief disconnect does not punish legitimate users. - **Bulk allocation creation.** Add hundreds of entities or features to a single asset in one action. Select multiple features and multiple entities at once in the allocation wizard, and LAC creates one allocation per combination — replacing the per-allocation pattern that previously made onboarding a 200-group option file an all-day task. Powered by a new `AddRules` GraphQL mutation; the existing `AddRule` mutation is unchanged. - **SaaS policy deployment.** Policies can now be deployed to SaaS license servers through both scheduled and manual deployments, closing the gap between SaaS and on-premise coverage. - **Resilient deployment with corrupted Users & Groups Service (UGS) entities.** Asset and policy deployments no longer fail when a referenced user or group has been disabled, deleted, or emptied in UGS. Affected allocations are skipped, logged with a clear warning, and surfaced in the deployment report, so administrators can clean up downstream without losing the rest of the deployment. ### Downloads moved to Platform Administration Installers for both Platform and Legacy products now live in a single place — **Platform Administration → Products → Downloads**. Switch between the Platform and Legacy tabs to find every component alongside its version and a link to its documentation. ### Additional updates More items will land in this section as the release approaches. ## OpenLM Platform - Broad Peak release *FEBRUARY 3, 2026 · Broad Peak* This update delivers deeper financial visibility, smarter software mapping, and a new intelligence layer that turns usage data into proactive decisions. ### License Access Control (LAC) LAC turns license management into policy-driven enforcement: define rules for who can use which features and when, and LAC compiles and deploys option files to your license manager for checkout-time enforcement. Policies bundle rules (with optional schedules), audit logs capture granted and denied attempts, and integrations with UGS and the Features Service validate users, groups, and features. - Integrated with SLM to improve responsiveness when license servers are deleted or disabled. Policies, Rules, and Assets that require a license server now show error icons with explanatory tooltips. - Integrated with UGS to improve responsiveness when Users & Groups are deleted or disabled. Rules that depend on those entities now show error icons with explanatory tooltips. - Fixed incorrect deployment behavior that caused queue records to disappear without an error or history record. ### Advanced reporting and the SAM cost module - Feature-wise cost tracking: You can now track costs at the individual feature level. Data is ingested via Purchase Orders (PO), Delivery Orders, CSV imports, or manual entry. - Wastage analysis: The system identifies the gap between what you bought and what you use. Calculation: `Wastage = Investment - Usage`. Example: If you pay for 10 hours of daily availability but only utilize 50 hours total in a year, the system flags the specific dollar amount lost. - Time-based reporting: Track costs per hour, week, quarter, or year. - Locational / geographical compliance: Ensure licenses are used in authorized regions. - License utilization: Deep dive into seat efficiency. - Borrowed licensing: Visibility into offline license usage. ### Software catalogue and mapping - Global vs. local catalogue: Users can provide a local catalogue, and OpenLM will map it against a global catalogue to ensure standardized naming conventions. - Parent-child mapping: Seamlessly map features such as MS Word to their parent subscriptions, such as MS Office. - Process-feature mapping: Align specific software features with the business processes they support. - Compliance tracking: Identify non-compliance risks triggered by either unauthorized features or unauthorized users. ### Business Intelligence (BI): The insight layer - Quick Suite insights: Proactive management with data that highlights issues before they become blockers. - Underuse and overuse detection: Instant identification of shelfware versus licenses causing productivity bottlenecks due to shortages. - Operational insights: Strategic data points to help IT managers make faster renewal decisions. ### Artificial Intelligence (AI) and natural language - Scenario / What-if analysis: A predictive tool that lets you model how changing license count or model impacts budget and denial rates. - NLQ (NLP-based dynamic query generation): A chatbot interface that lets you interact with data using natural language queries. Show me a chart of who used the most AutoCAD licenses in the London office last month. A dynamic visualization and a plain-English summary. ### Identity Discovery Use the Identity Discovery service to track login activity from your identity providers (IdPs). Identity Discovery collects user login events and brings them into OpenLM so you can see who logged in, when they logged in, and what service they used. Identity Discovery supports multiple identity accounts, including several accounts of the same type. Note: Identity Discovery collects only login metadata. It does not collect passwords or authentication secrets. ### Cloud Broker: Expanded SaaS coverage Cloud Broker now supports these SaaS platforms: Bentley, Figma, ZoomInfo, Priority, Monday.com, Syncfusion, Adobe, Zoho, Apollo.io, QuickSuite, Cadenas, Canvas, Materialise Magic, Ash Ware, GNS, OGI, and ETAP. ### Additional updates - Real-time communication for dongle monitoring in the agent. - Material migration. - Support for command-line arguments and window-title monitoring for processes. - Disable process harvesting for specific users during specific timeframes. - Improvements to the process-monitoring flow. - Fixes to process-session creation. - Improved End-User Services (EUS) notification UX. - Added a Remove License action to the Currently Consumed Licenses window. - New alert type: LFM Triads. - Added an Anonymous property to domain settings in the Directory Synchronization Service (DSS) UI. - Added cloud partners to the Cloud Admin UI. - Automatic user-alias creation in the Users & Groups Service (UGS). - Added a Clean Up manager to UGS. ## What will be released in the nearest future *Coming next · In progress* These items are actively in flight and will roll out after Broad Peak. - Anonymization Service.