Dear subscriber,

With the upcoming release of iOS7, Apple has removed the ability to programmatically get the MAC address, arguably to remove the ability for internet marketing companies to track the device.

The removal of this unique device identifier has critical side effects for DME. Unfortunately, Apple is not providing alternatives that would allow DME to uniquely identify the device, which is mandatory for the proper functioning of DME.

With iOS7, the current DME client would always report a fixed WLAN address (02:00:00:00:00), which could lead to several iOS devices being wrongly identified, potentially corrupting all settings for the affected devices.

In order to prevent such a situation, shortly, we will release hotfixes for all DME server versions after 3.6 SP1.

If you have iOS devices, it is IMPERATIVE that this hotfix is installed prior to the official release of iOS7, rumored at September 10th.

We expect to have the necessary hotfix download and documentation ready by next week. Please start planning for this mandatory upgrade of your DME infrastructure.

We are also working on a newer DME iOS version to address this iOS7 critical change. However since app updates cannot be forced on iOS, the patching of your server is mandatory.

Please follow our iOS7 status page at the DME Resource Center to check for updates regarding the availability of server hotfixes.

Best regards,

Excitor