SUMMARY
This article explains how long alpha and beta versions of some of our products will run for, before expiring.
MORE INFORMATION
Beta releases of our products may contain partially implemented features and bugs that could seriously impact a production environment. To avoid potential problems we strongly recommend that you only use them for testing and do not use them in your production environment.
Beta releases of some of our products like Nuke, Katana and Mari, have limited availability and are provided to customers only for testing and feedback on specific features implemented in that new release.
To discourage customers from running beta builds in production, all beta (and alpha) releases for Nuke and Katana are set to expire off regular licenses, 60 days after their build date, and Mari releases 90 days after their build date. Note that a beta release will only run off a license with valid maintenance, so they will not work if your maintenance has expired.
You can find the exact build date of a release under the About menu of each product. The same information will be displayed on the product splash screen on launch, and looks like:
In this example, the build date for Mari 8.0v1-Beta.2 is 23 September 2026. Since the Mari 8.0v1-Beta.2 build will expire after 60 days from creation, this means that the build will stop working on the 22nd of November 2026, irrespective of whether your license has valid maintenance.
FURTHER HELP
If you have any questions about beta releases or licensing, then please open a Support ticket and let us know how we can help.
For more information on how to open a Support ticket, please refer to Q100064: How to raise a support ticket.
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