Everyone who purchased v4 after August 1, 2009 received a complimentary upgrade to v5. If you purchased in the last five months you should have received an email with your complimentary upgrade key in early December. You can look up your registration key here:

http://www.clearcontext.com/faq.html#reg_lookup

Thanks for the feedback.

If you give v5 a try, I believe you will find the new one-click filing method to be a great improvement over v4.

Check this post for a list of additional v5.0 enhancements along with a glimpse of what’s coming in future v5 releases:

http://blog.clearcontext.com/2009/12/clearcontext-v4-to-v5-upgrade-guide.html

v5.0 upgraders will receive complimentary upgrades to v5.1 and v5.2 as well.

Thanks for your feedback.

The thing touted the most is this:

“5.0 features a number of significant feature improvements like the new one-click filing and suggestion system.”

I don’t see how this is any different than the current v4 “File Msg” button.

Seems like a steep upgrade cost for little new features plus lost features, and I just can’t justify it at this point.

5.0 features a number of significant feature improvements like the new one-click filing and suggestion system, but there’s a lot more to come in ClearContext v5. Version 5.1 is focused on enhancing the project management capabilities and dashboard. It will include a new dashboard design and lots of new task and project management features. Version 5.2 is about making automated message processing much smarter and will include a lot of improvements to AutoAssign and related features.

We’re including both 5.1 and 5.2 for users who purchase the $50 upgrade to v5.0 now – we’re confident that these improvements will provide a huge amount of value for all of our users, even if you’re not going to be taking advantage of capabilities like multi-machine support. Hopefully this makes your choice a lot less tough!

As far as v4 goes, we’re still supporting that release, but don’t plan to make any feature enhancements to that version.

Have to say, I find $50 to be a significantly higher price than I’d expect to pay for a $100 piece of software.

I’ll grant that the multiple-machine/multiple-config support probably cost quite a bit to develop, and will cost more to maintain, and that seems appropriate to price at a premium.

IMAP support — which seems to be a very frequently requested feature — would similarly be worth a premium, IMO.

Other than multi-machine, however, the changes here seem to me to be largely UI improvements or incremental functionality, rather than truly new functionality. As such, they seem much more an update, rather than an upgrade, and therefore seem extremely expensive at $50.

But because it’s all bundled as a single upgrade, those of us who don’t care about multi-machine support are stuck with a tough choice.

Any chance you will consider rolling the non-multi-machine features back to v4.x?