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Snow Inventory Agent for MacOS 26

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This version of the product is not supported anymore.

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Agent for MacOS 26. 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.

26.1.1 latest​

Release date: 2026-06-10

Enhancements​

Command elevation improvements

  • The agent has been enhanced to read sudo permissions with (ALL : ALL) NOPASSWD. Previously, it was limited to (ALL) NOPASSWD and (root) NOPASSWD.

HTTP Headers

  • The agent now set its HTTP headers to content-type: "application/octet-stream".
    This improvement fixes communication issues when Web Application Firewall (WAF) is in use.

Java_Home detection

  • It is now possible to use environment variables in the env.java_home system setting.
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Environment variables written to the snowagent.config should follow the Windows format %variable%, independent of the operating system the agent will be running on.

Performance improvements for Oracle scanners

  • CPU usage and scan times have been reduced when collecting Oracle inventory data, helping minimize impact during full filesystem scans (for example, C:* or /*).

Security enhancement

  • The agent has been improved to prevent library injection.

Third-party library updates

  • The following third-party libraries used by the agent have been updated for increased security:
LibraryNew version
curl8.20.0
libxml22.15.3
zlib1.3.2
nemtrif/utfcpp4.1.0
openssl3.6.2
repo4.0.0
cryptoppv2026-03-02
sqlite33.53.1

Web Metering Improvements

  • The web metering module now runs as an independent service (SnowWebMetering). This controls a local read-only API used for the extension communication.
    This enhancement brings extended privacy and security to web metering, by only writing to disk information that has already been matched against either the Allow List or Crules file, and brings back the support to Apple Safari browser.
    New troubleshooting commands are included in this release, facilitating support of this feature. For more information, see Troubleshooting.
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This new web metering version requires the use of the new Flexera Web Metering browser extension. Previous versions of the Snow Web Application Metering extensions will not work.

Corrections​

  • Corrected an issue where the agent would discard entries in the include criteria if the name of the folder contained the name of another folder entry.
    Example: In a situation where the agent is supposed to scan C:\temp and C:\temp2, the agent would discard C:\temp2, as its name was partially contained in the previous C:\temp entry.

  • The agent now correctly collects swidtags found in the include paths.

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