Release of the final version of PVS-Studio 4.00 and end of public beta-testing

Dec 24 2010

Author: Andrey Karpov

Today, a month later we started public testing of the beta-version of PVS-Studio 4.00, we announce a new final version released (numbered 4.00.6).

During the month of public testing, we released 5 intermediate versions, which allowed us to fix a lot of errors, implement many user preferences and improvements by the release of the final version. (What's new?).

Let's once again point out the advantages of PVS-Studio 4.00 over PVS-Studio 3.64:

A new set of general static analysis rules. At present, it includes about sixty rules but their number will significantly rise in time.
Changes in the licensing policy. Now there are three simple and clear license types with fixed prices: Single User License, Team License, Site License.
A new PVS-Studio Output Window for diagnostic messages generated by the analyzer.
Performance increase both of the analyzer itself and its user interface.

When announcing the release of the beta-version, we said that we were planning to make the general analyzer free. Due to various reasons, we failed to benefit from this approach during the time of public beta-testing as we had planned. That is why we will make the analyzer a completely commercial product and, of course, we will provide the trial-version too. To learn about the reasons why the free version has not proved to be a reasonable solution, see the post here.

Users of PVS-Studio 3.XX may use PVS-Studio 4.XX versions within the scope of the license they have purchased before. However, these users will have only the trial-mode of the general analysis unit. To be able to use these diagnostic rules too, please write to us to learn about the terms.

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