Prerequisites

The following section contains technical updates concerned with prerequisites.

For more detail, see our main Technical Documents Requirements and prerequisites area.

Q2 2024

Orbit

Change of Pre-Requisites to ASP.NET Core 8

The second Orbit release in May 2024 (Version 2.0.0) introduced a dependency on the ASP.NET Core 8 Server Hosting bundle for the OrbitAPI. This is now required to be installed on the web server.

For details on where to download the update and a list of FAQs, see ASP.NET pre-requisite change for Apteco Orbit.

Q2 2023

General

Windows OS and .Net Framework version requirement

Note: Since the Q2 2023 release, all tiers of Apteco software now require a minimum of the .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later to be installed.

This includes:

Client machines: Those running Apteco FastStats or Apteco PeopleStage
Servers: The machines used to run the FastStats Web Service and FastStats Service components

The latest version of the .NET installers can be downloaded from: https://www.microsoft.com/net/download

Apteco recommends keeping up to date with the latest version of the .NET Framework and ensuring that all Windows updates are applied.

Microsoft .NET 4.7.2 is supported on the following operating systems:

Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Windows 8.1
Windows 10 (all versions)
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server, version 1709
Windows Server, version 1803
Windows Server, version 1809
Windows Server 2019

Q1 2022

Orbit

Change of Pre-Requisites to ASP.NET Core 6

The second Orbit release in January 2022 (Version 1.10.26) introduced a dependency on the ASP.NET Core 6 Server Hosting bundle for the OrbitAPI. This is now required to be installed on the web server.

For details on where to download the update and a list of FAQs, see ASP.NET pre-requisite change for Apteco Orbit.

Q1 2019

FastStats

Windows OS and .Net Framework version requirement

From the Q1 2019 release onward, the FastStats Launcher requires .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later and supports TLS1.3 and later.

Existing versions of the Launcher are still supported but the 2016 Q4 Launcher was the last release that supported the .NET Framework 4.0 and therefore the last release that supported Windows XP.

Apteco recommends keeping up to date with the latest version of the .NET Framework and ensuring that all Windows updates are applied.

The latest version of the .NET installers can be downloaded from: https://www.microsoft.com/net/download

At the time of writing the offline installer for Microsoft .NET 4.5.2 can be downloaded from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53344

Microsoft .NET 4.5 is supported on the following operating systems:

Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Windows 8.1
Windows 10 (all versions)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server, version 1709
Windows Server, version 1803
Windows Server, version 1809
Windows Server 2019