# 180-day developer license no longer available?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/180-day-developer-license-no-longer-available/94182>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-engine\
**Created:** [November 19, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/180-day-developer-license-no-longer-available/94182 "2021-11-19T17:47:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Library\_IT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Library\_IT](https://community.wowza.com/u/Library_IT)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/180-day-developer-license-no-longer-available/94182/1 "2021-11-19T17:47:03Z")

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Hi,

We have a paid annual license for Wowza Streaming Engine, and we’ve been using a developer license for our test server. These used to last six months so we only had to rotate the license twice a year, but now the developer license links (e.g. from [this answer](http://community.wowza.com/t/developer-license/91888) which references the 180-day license) all go to the [trial](https://www.wowza.com/pricing/trial) page, which is only a 30-day license.

We’re running Wowza in a Docker swarm and it’s a somewhat involved and annoying process to switch out the license keys, so it’s becoming quite frustrating to have to do this every 30 days. Is there any provision for a longer developer license for paying customers?

Thanks,  
David Moles  
Head of Applications  
UC Berkeley Library IT

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**Author:** ![J\_van\_Marion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@J\_van\_Marion](https://community.wowza.com/u/J_van_Marion)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/180-day-developer-license-no-longer-available/94182/2 "2021-11-19T21:31:40Z")

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They deactivated the 180 days licenses somewhere in august this year without any notice to the community. I also use the developer license for testing and bugfixing. Running several testing servers with different setups.  
You can renew the trials every 30 days, but i would also like to see it back to 180 days.  
I requested the same question on our business account, but found out i was able to renew them after 30 days anyway, so i canceled the ticket.

If you still want it as a paying customer i would suggest to create a support ticket in your business acount. You will get a quicker response there than on the forum. And maybe they can grant you a longer testing period.

It’s not that big of a deal for me, I create my own wowza installers, So i have a server setup in a couple of minutes.

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**Author:** ![Library\_IT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Library\_IT](https://community.wowza.com/u/Library_IT)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/180-day-developer-license-no-longer-available/94182/3 "2021-11-19T21:54:33Z")

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Good thought, thanks. I’ve filed a ticket.