I&#x27;m actually quite upset about this. I love PyCharm and I&#x27;ve always upgraded to most recent major version because even though I didn&#x27;t necessarily need all the new features, I wanted to support JetBrains for making such great software.<p>So now I&#x27;m stuck using PyCharm 4.x forever unless I pay a monthly fee to upgrade. And if I stop paying I lose access to my IDE? Truly an awful way to treat loyal customers.<p>I can only hope that JetBrains abandons this new SaaS model or has some plan to allow users to purchase either a perpetual license or a subscription a-la Microsoft Office.<p>If not, then I hope Atom or Sublime Text get some robust debugging plugins for Python like PyCharm has.