Newly registered Avast 7 license expires shortly

I have upgraded my free Avast 6 to Avast 7 and after creating an account, it says that my license will expire on May 8th 2012. Why is that? The free license used to be 12 months. What will I have to do on May 8th in order to obtain a new one?

https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=1073

The update to avast7 doesn’t re-register the original avast6 registration period, unless you did a clean install. If you did a clean install it should have reset your registration, but that would only give 30 days before expiry (not 8th May).

The creation of an avast account, again is likely to have been linked to the avast6 registration period.

So it may simply be that your previous avast6 registration was due for renewal on the 8th of May 2012 ?

When you get notified closer to the 8th May, just renew from the avastUI, Maintenance, Registration section (which changes to allow this when the time comes).

Well, I stumbled over this in a beta (guess it was 7.0.1412).
I lost my license there, but got a 90 days license instead.