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The latest release of our products is 8.06
Visit here often to see what's happening with our company and products.  If you want to get more details of what changed in a particular release, download specific product release notes.

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• February 2025
  Version 8.06 Released
  Along with minor fixes and small enhancements, the main focus for this release was to change the Control-CS internet protocol to provide built-in optional encryption.
  The protocol changes provide for future improvments and are backward compatible to earlier versions.
• June 2024
  Version 8.05a Released
  This is a general maintenance release of the underlying libraries to all products.
  NSK installation files have been upgraded to have wizards to configure installation if the normal PC installation is bypassed.
• October 2023
  Version 8.05 Released
  The main focus of this release, besides addressing a few customer issues, has been streamlining and improving how file name handling is done on all platforms.
  There has been a great deal of code modernization to begin changes for the next release, in which we have a number product enhancements planned. A few improvements have been made, including a small change to the comparison algorithm that should improve difference computing.
• Earlier
  All Windows products including Control-CS server and CLCS have 64bit versions.
  
  Major Features
• -Updated installation features with digital signatures.
  -IPV6 support added.
  -All disk addressing supports 64bit sizes.
  -Nonstop x86 platform support.
  -All NCI products reworked to support 64bit platforms
  -CTFind program issued with CONTROL and CONTROL-CS
  -Some reports can be directed to result in XML output
  
  Code Improvements
  In every release, not only are problems fixed, but the underlying code itself is continuously updated to reflect changes and upgrades to the operating system and computer languages.
   

Control-CS Encryption!

All communication between client and server can optionally be encrypted.

64bit versions of all NCI Windows products

New installation files allow 64bit Control-CS servers to run on Windows. These products have been throughly tested on Windows 11.

If you're wondering how Windows fits in with our NonStop solution, take a look at Control-CS.

TCPIP - Version 6

There are no unassigned IPV4 addresses left!  With the new 5G phone service, use of IPV6 is inevitable.  Control-CS is ready.

NonStop X

The X86 Server has been big news for the NonStop community and NCI has kept up with the changing technology.
Several clients have been using our NSKx and OSSx servers for sometime now.

New ideas

With Version 8.06 now available, work has already begun on the next version of NCI's products.  If you have some ideas of how our products can be improved, now's the time to get in touch with us at sales@nci-sw.com.

We want to help you and others in the Control community.