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Snow Inventory Agent for Unix 8

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Agent for Unix 8. You can find the old release notes on the Flexera Community.

You can find the release notes for Package Builder on Snow Atlas in the Snow Atlas section of this page.

8.3.0 latest​

Release date: 2025-09-25

New​

Cloud Instance Id
(PLAT-38805)

  • The agent now adds the Cloud Instance Id as part of the main inventory in the snowpack.
    It is now included under the <SystemIdentifier> tag inside the inv3x.xml file.
note

To view Cloud Instance Ids in Snow License Manager, version 25.1.0 or later is required.

Oracle Inventory
(PLAT-25470)

  • The agent now caches the file scan into a file oracle_filesearch_results.out to avoid duplicate file scans for the Oracle Scanners.

(PLAT-25476)

  • The agent now includes the Oracle scanners log files into the snowpack. This will help with troubleshooting of the same.

(PLAT-36657)

  • The agent will now execute all Oracle Scanners during a scan.
    This enhancement eliminates the need to configure separate schedules for SIOHWS, SIJS and SIOMS.
note

For the new Oracle behavior in the Snow agent to take effect, it is required to update the Oracle Scanners to the following versions:

  • Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner (SIOMS) 3.4.0 or later.
  • Snow Inventory Java Scanner (SIJS) 3.4.0 or later.
  • Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner (SIOHWS) 2.3.0 or later.
  • Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner (SIOS) 8.7.0 or later.

8.2.0​

Release date: 2025-02-12

Enhancements​

SWID Tag Scanning
(CDC-1998)

  • The agent now reports the resulting status of scanning the computer for swidtag files, together with the resulting content; this will enable Snow Inventory Server and Snow License Manager to better handle recognition of added, removed, or changed software.

Corrections​

(PLAT-23049)

  • The agent will now correctly parse numbers when system locale is not English.

8.1.0​

Release date: 2024-10-02

Enhancements​

(CDC-5284)

  • Internal libraries and dependencies required by Snow Inventory Agent for Unix have been updated.

8.0.2​

Release date: 2024-08-21

Corrections​

(SIT-3791)

  • The Snow Inventory Agent for Unix now handles messaging with a Snow Extender properly, to prevent subsequent errors during the sending process to drop locations (04780769).

8.0.1​

Release date: 2024-06-19

Corrections​

(CDC-5202)

  • The process of handshaking and sending snowpacks has been enhanced to handle errors when communicating with nonworking endpoints (04771194).

8.0.0​

Release date: 2024-02-08

Compatibility
(SIT-3594)
Please refer to the Compatibility matrix for supported versions of 3rd-party systems.

Enhancements​

Security
(CDC-5047)

  • This release includes security enhancements. Read more about CVE-2024-1149 and CVE-2024-1150 on Snow Globe.

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