Perpetual fallback forfeited on cancellation or downgrade within a year
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- Restriction
- Statement
- Perpetual fallback FAQ (updated 2026-08-21): a yearly subscription, or 12 consecutive monthly renewals, earns the license for the last major version available when the subscription started, its minor releases and all older versions. Without 12 consecutive months there is no fallback license; the same applies if the subscription is cancelled or downgraded within a year, for example an All Products Pack downgraded to a single-product license. While a subscription continues, the fallback version is updated every month.
- Applies when
- Determining which version a lapsed subscription may keep using.
- Applies to
- JetBrains IDEs, .NET tools, All Products Pack, dotUltimate
- Aliases
- fallback eligibility
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