NeuralMind v4.15.1 — an expired Team license gets the full 30-day grace period

The license agreement (§4.2) grants a 30-day grace period after a Team license expires, during which Team features keep working so you can renew without interruption. The license check ended grace at whichever came first: 30 days after expiry, or 30 days after the software last validated the license. A team that hadn’t run NeuralMind in the weeks before expiry got less than 30 days, and a machine with no validation on record, such as a fresh install or a restored backup, got none. Grace now runs 30 days from expiry.

What changed

Licensing

• Grace runs 30 days from the expiry date. Until then, neuralmind team license status reports OFFLINE_OK and neuralmind team governance, team seats and team audit keep working, however long ago the software last ran. A license last validated 20 days before it expired got 10 days of grace in v4.15.0, and gets 30 now. From day 31 it reports EXPIRED and those commands stop until you activate a renewed license with neuralmind team license activate, which works throughout.
• A clock set back still gets no grace. Each successful validation records its time beside the license file (license.last_valid). If that time is later than the current time, the system clock has been moved back, and an expired license reports EXPIRED. The old 30-days-after-last-run limit protected nothing beyond that, because a clock set back to before the expiry date makes the license valid outright.
• self_hosted.offline_grace_days is gone. tier2.yaml accepted the setting and validated it, but nothing read it, so grace was always 30 days. Grace is fixed by the agreement, so it isn’t configurable. A config that still has the key loads as before; the key is ignored and is dropped the next time NeuralMind saves the config.

Docs

• The upgrade guide described grace as offline use: the license “keeps working for 30 days without phoning home”. The license check is local, with no licensing server to contact, so a license works offline for its whole term, and the 30 days follow expiry. Its downgrade steps named neuralmind license status, the issuer’s command, where a customer runs neuralmind team license status. They also said the free tier comes back by itself after expiry. It doesn’t: neuralmind onboarding offers to replace an expired license with a free one.

What the agent actually sees

Nothing changes. Grace decides whether the Team governance, seats and audit commands run after a Team license expires. An agent’s context comes from the MIT core, which doesn’t check the license.

Per-agent expectations

Upgrading

• No action needed. If v4.15.0 reported a license that expired within the last 30 days as EXPIRED, it now reports OFFLINE_OK until 30 days after expiry, and the Team governance, seats and audit commands work again.
• If your tier2.yaml sets self_hosted.offline_grace_days, you can delete it. It never had an effect.
• No rebuild, index format change or hook re-install.

Related

• License agreement §4.2
• Upgrade guide: downgrade flow
• Tier 2 operator guide
• v4.15.0 release notes