Progress Kendo UI Licensing CLI

This package is part of the Kendo UI family of UI Component suites.

For more information about usage with specific products see:

- Kendo UI for Angular
- Kendo UI for jQuery
- Kendo UI for Vue
- KendoReact

Usage

kendo-ui-license [arguments]

Supported commands:

- kendo-ui-license activate

Validates and imports a Telerik and Kendo UI license key file.

The following locations are searched for a license key:
- The path specified in the TELERIK_LICENSE_PATH environment variable.
- The TELERIK_LICENSE, KENDO_UI_LICENSE environment variables.
- The telerik-license.txt, kendo-ui-license.txt files in:
- The current working directory
- Each parent directory
- ~/.telerik (Linux and macOS) or %APPDATA%\Telerik (Windows)

Command arguments:

- --ignore-no-license - Sets the exit status to 0 (success) if a license file is missing.

- kendo-ui-license refresh [--output ] [--no-browser]

Downloads a new license key file after authenticating to telerik.com via a web browser.
By default, the license file is saved in the user's home directory.

Command arguments:
- --output - Save license to specified directory or file
- --timeout - Authentication timeout, seconds (default: 300)
- --port - Preferred localhost port (random if not specified)
- --no-browser - Do not automatically open a browser

- kendo-ui-license info

Prints information about the current license and product license status.

- kendo-ui-license help

Prints a help message.

The exit status is one of the following values:
- 0 - success
- 1 - no license key found
- 2 - invalid license key
- 3 - internal error
- 4 - authentication failed or timed out
- 5 - network error

Changelog

$3

#### Bug fixes

- Upgrade glob to v13.x as 10.5.0 is deprecated. Does not affect compatibility with Node.js < 20 for basic operations.

$3

#### Features

- Add detailed notification messages for license issues

$3

#### Bug fixes

- Downgrade Yargs to v17 to maintain compatibility with Node.js < 20

$3

#### Features

- Adds a "refresh" command to download updated license keys from telerik.com
- Adds a "info" command to display license information

$3

#### Features

- Export utility functions for programmatic usage
- Reduced bundle size

#### Bug fixes

- Activation error with package links in package-lock.json

$3

#### Bug fixes

- updates jsonwebtoken version spec to ^9.0.3 to ensure the latest security patches are included

$3

#### Bug fixes

- updates glob version spec to ^10.5.0 to ensure the latest security patches are included

$3

#### Features

- fixes a license activation error with @progress/kendo-angular-diagrams

$3

#### Features

- provide detailed notification messages

$3

#### Features

- allow product packages to obtain license status without triggering validation

$3

#### Bug fixes

- license activation issues on Windows

$3

DEPRECATED: Please, upgrade to v1.5.3

#### Bug fixes

- product references are not found when referenced from dependencies
- license activation fails when Vite cache is in use, requiring a clearing the cache

$3

#### Bug fixes

- preserve existing keys in setScriptKey

$3

#### Features

- add support for TELERIK_LICENSE_PATH

$3

#### Features

- add support for Telerik license keys
- locate key files in parent and home directory

License

This is commercial software. To use it, you need to agree to the Telerik End User License Agreement for Kendo UI Complete. If you do not own a commercial license, this file shall be governed by the trial license terms.

All available Kendo UI commercial licenses may be obtained at .

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