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The latest release of our products is 8.05a
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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• 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.
• December 2022
  Version 8.04 Released
  This release has a number of changes with Windows. Besides being compiled with the latest compilers and libraries, both the Control-CS Server and CLCS have 64bit installations. One significant enhancement was requested by a user to enhance using NSK defines when compiling. The Control-CS client also has a few helpful additions.
• Earlier
  New Installation Files
  Responding to user requests all installation files (which are downloadble from this site) are now digitally signed and certified as being from Network Concepts, Inc. to ensure your security.
  The files have also been renamed to reflect the product and version. During runtime, checks are made within the wizard to verify you are installing the correct product with the matching license and system variant to avoid time consuming installation mistakes.
  
  Major Features
  -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.
   

Windows 11 64bit windows Server

New installation files allow 64bit Control-CS servers to run on Windows.

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.

Windows11 64bit Clients

Besides some changes to adapt to Windows 10/11 since it's inception, we now support a 64bit version of the CONTROL-CS client.
If you're wondering how Windows fits in with our NonStop solution, take a look at Control-CS.

New ideas

With Version 8.05a 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.