As many of you will already be aware during 2014 we have invested heavily in expanding both our software engineering and support teams.
This will allow us to accelerate the addition of new functionality and features in all of our existing products during the first half of 2015 with new functionality in existing products and 100% new applications and developer kits scheduled for release during the first 2 quarters of the new year.
To allow us to continue to invest further during the next 12 months at similar or greater levels in both product development and customer support we will be increasing the rates charged for maintenance across all of our product ranges as from February 1st 2015, please see the table below for specific details on how this will affect our maintenance pricing.
Extended maintenance purchased at the time of the license is increasing by 5% and Maintenance Renewals will be increasing by 7.5%.
The BBC and many other news organisations are reporting perhaps one of the most serious breaches of user and program data yet for the Software giant, from the BBC news site ;
"Adobe has confirmed that 2.9 million customers have had private information stolen during a "sophisticated" cyber attack on its website.
The attackers accessed encrypted customer passwords and payment card numbers, the company said.
But it does not believe decrypted debit or credit card data was removed.
Adobe also revealed that it was investigating the "illegal access" of source code for numerous products, including Adobe Acrobat and ColdFusion."
We are very pleased to announce the formal 'Gold' release of the PDF-XChange Editor build 301 today Friday April 26th.
This is the formal upgrade available to the PDF-XChange Viewer and is now our primary product offering for the Viewing, modification and printing of PDF files, a comprehensive specification and feature chart is available from this link;
On Friday, Jan.18, a third-party researcher informed Secunia Research of a possible issue with the PDF-XChange Viewer: Build 2.5.207 whereby an embedded JPEG stream within a PDF file could be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
Questionable as the threat was to our customers, it was treated with extreme importance. Within 24 hours Tracker Software issued a new release with protection against this potential, if unlikely, risk.
All Tracker Software clients are urged to update to our latest, free PDF-XChange Viewer: Build 2.5.208 as soon as possible.
The specific technical nature of the threat was: Hypothetical/potential exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires tricking a user into opening a malicious PDF document where a memory override can occur on handling the corrupted Define Huffman Table header of a JPEG image file stream.
Acknowledging software defects and security holes is inevitable and Tracker Software treats mission-critical defects and security issues very seriously.
Prompt responses to software defects and security holes have always been — and will continue to be — a top priority of Tracker Software’s product service.
Our known security issue list — a total of four in more than 15 years of product releases and approximately 150 million client installations — is much shorter than that of our competitors’ due to the robust design of our products.
Tracker has published all the historic security issues on its website and keeps tracking potential security issues on daily basis.
We will continue to ensure our clients are protected with quality products and prompt action to resolve any issues found.
PDF-XChange Viewer/Editor - Version 3
We will be releasing a version 3 beta (or perhaps 'Alpha' is a better description) later today for licensed clients with current/valid maintenance.
PDF-XChange Viewer, was selected as the top-choice for PDF software by both Editors and Users of the LifeHacker Online Magazine. In a recent review and earlier user poll of the five best PDF viewers and readers the PDF-XChange Viewer had a massive margin ahead of its competitors.
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