About a week or two ago I’d noticed that my free-version registration was showing something like 30 days left, which sounded about right since I’d last renewed sometime in Jan. of this year. Since then, it’s jumped to slightly under a year left, implying that it recently updated itself with no action on my part.
When did this come into effect? Whenever, it was certainly not prominently announced, even though a fairly significant change.
(edit) If it helps tie it into a specific defs or program update, it’s showing the renewal as effective Dec. 5th.