Product Releases Blog — Tijana Miljanovic (Flexera Software)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Updates to Snow License Manager v9.x and Snow Inventory Server v6.x
We want to inform you of important lifecycle changes to Snow License Manager and Snow Inventory Server that may impact your environment. To hear more about these changes in a short video, click here.
As of December 31, 2025, the following products will reach End-of-Life (EOL):
- Snow License Manager v9.x and earlier
- Snow Inventory Server v6.x and earlier
End-of-Support (EOS) for these versions will follow on March 31, 2026. After this date, Flexera will no longer provide technical support, updates, or patches for these versions, regardless of whether they are hosted by Flexera, a partner, or within your own infrastructure.
These versions were originally released in 2018, with the final update (v9.45.0) to be released on June 26, 2025. This lifecycle transition is part of our standard product strategy. Additionally, supporting over 65 different versions of Snow License Manager places a significant burden on our support and engineering teams. By reducing the number of supported versions, we can focus more on enhancing the products.
What’s Coming Next
To support your upgrade planning, we’re excited to share that we are targeting the release of the following products by the end of Q3 2025:
- Snow License Manager 25.1.0
- Snow Inventory Server 25.1.0
These upcoming versions will include improvements designed to help you get even more value from your Flexera investment.
Note: This release will follow the standard update process. Although we are moving to a new major version, you won’t need a new license key to install it, upgrading will remain straightforward.
Currently, we support over 65 different versions of SLM 9, which places a significant burden on our support and engineering teams.
By streamlining our versioning, we can focus more on delivering product enhancements. Additionally, we’re aligning our versioning strategy with Flexera, which is why we’re transitioning to version 25.
Looking ahead, we plan to release version 25.2.0 in December and version 26.1.0 in March 2026. This schedule will allow us to officially end support for SLM 9 by March 2026.
These new versions are a change to the naming and support cycle rather than a major feature with architectural changes. The update cycles will take no more effort than if we would have continued releasing v9 versions of the products.
What You Should Do
To ensure continued support and access to the latest features, we recommend:
- Upgrading to a newer version of Snow License Manager and Snow Inventory Server, or
- Migrating to Snow Atlas, our SaaS-based platform, for a more modern and scalable experience.
You should be able to find the latest versions of Snow License Manager and Snow Inventory Server on the Snow Product Downloads page on Flexera Community, within the Snow Update Service or through your partner. If you are planning your upgrade or exploring a move to Snow Atlas, please reach out to your Flexera account and/or partner team.
If you have questions, please contact your Flexera Support team.
do you mean that the lifetime of the latest official release of the product will be less than 6 month? it is unsual to have a product with a so short lifetime.
and if I understand it will be replaced by another product that will be delivered , if no delay... by a prodcut that will be laucnh for the 1st time 3 month before, with no clue of what will be the chagnes?
clients will have to migrate to the new/unknown V25 in Q4 25
Hi Tony,
We will deliver version 25.1.0 of SLM and Snow Inventory Server via the Snow Update Service on September 25th. This release will follow the standard update process.
Although we are moving to a new major version, you won’t need a new license key to install it, upgrading will remain straightforward.
Currently, we support over 65 different versions of SLM 9, which places a significant burden on our support and engineering teams.
By streamlining our versioning, we can focus more on delivering product enhancements. Additionally, we’re aligning our versioning strategy with Flexera, which is why we’re transitioning to version 25.
Looking ahead, we plan to release version 25.2.0 in December and version 26.1.0 in March 2026. This schedule will allow us to officially end support for SLM 9 by March 2026.
These new versions are a change to the naming and support cycle rather than a major feature with architectural changes. The update cycles will take no more effort than if we would have continued releasing v9 versions of the products.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Sebastiano Bonfiglio
Group Product Manager
Hi Sebastiano,
Thanks for the update.
Just to confirm—this is essentially a standard version upgrade from a software and functionality perspective, rather than a major release with architectural changes, correct?
In that case, there’s no need for us to plan a migration or extensive functional testing?
Best regards,
Reza
Hi Reza,
That's correct.
Best,
Sebastiano
Is there a place where we can see the infrastructure specs required for this SLM & SIS upgrades? We need to plan server upgrades, SQL upgrades, etc. in advance before we can upgrade to align with our organization plan.
The system requirements remain unchanged for SLM 25.1.0 and Snow Inventory Server 25.1.0, the requirements can be found here: https://docs-snow.flexera.com/other-snow-products/snow-license-manager/system-requirements/
Hi, I am planning to upgrade the Snow Inventory Agents to the latest version in our client environment. Before proceeding, I would like to confirm whether the upcoming changes to Snow License Manager and Snow Inventory Server will impact the agents, or if a new compatible agent version will be released alongside those changes.
Please advise whether I should proceed with the upgrade now or wait until the changes are implemented.
Hi @nikhilc​,
There are no hard dependencies between the agents and the new SLM and SIS.
However, if you are planning to update your agents soon, I will suggest to wait a little longer.
We are introducing changes to the Oracle scanners, exclusions for "on-demand" file on OneDrive and changing how we provide the instanceId for cloud devices, so it can be displayed in SLM.
Those are still in development, so I can't yet confirm if all will be available in our September release.
I will be posting the release announcement on the Atlas blog at the end of the month, so stay tuned.
Hi Gabriel. Anything you can share about the Oracle scanner changes?
The current reliance on Java home has been prohibitively complex in our environment. Other inventory tools have success with SQL*Plus commands.
Hi @robind​,
The changes that we are making are in regards to the execution of the Oracle scanners.
Now, they will not require separate scheduling. All scanners will be run by the agent, just like we already do with SIOS.
On top of that, since the agent is running them, we can now cache the file inventory so no redundant file scanning is run by each scanner again.
The configuration for each scanner will also be part of the main snowagent.config, not requiring external configs for each scanner.
Finally, we are expanding the "Java_Home" system setting to support multiple locations, so you don't need to create multiple different configurations just for a change in the java path.
More information will follow in the next few weeks, together with updates to our docs page.