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Snow Inventory Agent for Windows 7

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Agent for Windows 7. 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.

7.4.0 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.

Enhancements​

Oracle Inventory
(PLAT-25520)

  • The agent now supports multiple Java home paths for Oracle execution.
    Users can specify a semi-colon “;“ separated list of potential Java installation locations in the system settings.
    The agent will automatically use the first valid path it finds on the system, streamlining configuration and improving flexibility in environments with multiple Java installations.

Corrections​

(PLAT-40057)

  • An issue has been resolved where the agent would crash when webmetering is enabled.

7.3.2​

Release date: 2025-05-07

Corrections​

(PLAT-29136)

  • The agent now correctly reports Google as the manufacturer for Google Cloud virtual machines, instead of Open Virtualization Alliance.

7.3.1​

Release date: 2025-04-10

Enhancements​

Software Full Version
(PLAT-23035)

  • The agent now reports the full version of an application, not just the major and minor version.

Corrections​

(PLAT-23474)

  • The agent now will force a file update when trying to download new webmetering.crules and webmetering.rules if the previous attempt failed.

(PLAT-26215)

  • The agent will now correctly accept Allow List rules for Cloud Application Metering without crashing.

7.3.0​

Release date: 2025-02-12

(CDC-5624)

info

When executing the command "snowagent version", this release will be identified as BETA. This is a mislabel and will be fixed on the next release.

New​

SaaS Metering
(CDC-5527)

  • The agent supports Allow Lists, a new method for cloud metering rules delivery.
    Snow Extender 2.6.0 or newer is required for Allow Lists to function.

(CDC-5543)

  • The agent can now enable cloud metering without writing the necessary information to the computer registry.
    This is useful for customers that want to ensure only their deployment software writes to the device.

Enhancements​

File Scanning
(CDC-4934)

  • The agent can now scan information of non-executable files, such as plugins. (SNOW-I-594)

Corrections​

(CDC-5623)

  • The agent now correctly applies the Include and Exclude rules for the SWID Tag scanner.
note

Be sure to include %ProgramData% and other SWID Tag file locations to the snow agent configuration file before updating to this version.

Deprecated​

Firefox Browser Extension
(CDC-5456)

7.2.0​

Release date: 2024-11-06

Enhancements​

Service Control
(CDC-5352)

  • The agent service affinity can now be controlled via the agent configuration by using the process_affinity system setting. For more information, see configuration-doc.html. (SNOW-I-2760)

(CDC-5388)

  • A new service command sc control snowinventoryagent5 131 is available to only perform a scan and not send the snowpack. (IDEAS-I-2613)

Corrections​

(CDC-5454)

  • A potential buffer overflow vulnerability, where supplying an update package signed by an AES key bigger than 16 bytes would lead to memory corruption, has been fixed.

7.1.0​

Release date: 2024-10-02

Enhancements​

(CDC-5320)

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

7.0.3​

Release date: 2024-08-21

Corrections​

(SIT-3586)

  • The total memory size is now correctly calculated on 32-Bit systems (04768013).

7.0.2​

Release date: 2024-06-19

Enhancements​

(CDC-5243)

  • Snow Inventory Firefox Browser extension has been updated to version 1.0.5. Find more details in the Release Notes of the Firefox Extension.

7.0.1​

Release date: 2024-05-08

Enhancements​

Security
(CDC-5115)

  • The Command Prompt (cmd.exe) is now always referenced through the system directory, for instance C:\Windows\System32 to protect against arbitrary code execution.

(CDC-5116)

  • Further improvements to the way that the agent loads and utilizes DLLs have been made to ensure secure loading to prevent DLL preloading.

(CDC-5137)

  • The agent now uses Authenticode to verify the digital signature of the Java binary before executing it to protect against arbitrary code execution.

7.0.0​

Release date: 2024-02-08

Compatibility
(SIT-3593)
Please refer to the Compatibility matrix for supported versions of 3rd-party systems.

New​

Scanning Process
PowerShell Scripts
(CDC-5025)

  • Introduced the #MediumIntegrityLevel comment-style flag to control the requirement for medium integrity from within the PowerShell script. Scripts without this comment will be executed in low integrity.
  • PowerShell scripts, which require medium integrity, need to be signed with a valid signature.

Enhancements​

Security
(CDC-5047)

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

Corrections​

Data collection
(SIT-3139)

  • An issue concerning a memory buffer that was not properly terminated has been corrected and as a result, random characters will no longer be included in the Device Name field in the .snowpack file. (04735241)

Deprecated​

(CDC-5048)

  • Support for *.snow-ps1 PowerShell scripts has been removed. Read more about CVE-2023-7169 on Snow Globe.
  • Support for script decryption has been removed. The powershell.encryption_key setting in the configuration file has been deprecated.

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