Official release of Snow Inventory Agent for Linux 26.1.1

We are pleased to announce the release of the Snow Inventory Agent for Linux 26.1.1.

Release Date: 2026-06-10

This release includes:

• Cloud Instance Id     
• Java_Home detection with environment variables
• Binary security enhancement
• Agent Unique ID Improvements
• Removal of 32 bit installer
• Fix HTTP headers content type
• Performance improvements for Oracle scanners
• Command elevation improvements
• Fix for folder transversal when the name overlap
• Third-party libraries updated

Customer Impact:

• 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.
• It is now possible to use environment variables in the env.java_home system setting.
• The agent security has been enhanced by enabling additional binary hardening protections.
• The agent now collects the MachineID property, which is generated by the operating system during installation. This should improve the unique id generation, preventing different computers from merging into a single one.
• From this release onwards, no 32 bit versions of the agent will be provided.
• 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.
• CPU usage and scan times have been reduced when collecting Oracle inventory data, helping minimize impact during full filesystem scans (for example, C:\* or /*).
• 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 has been enhanced to read sudo permissions with (ALL : ALL) NOPASSWD. Previously, it was limited to (ALL) NOPASSWD and (root) NOPASSWD.
• The curl, libxml2, zlib, nemtrif/utfcpp, openssl, repo, cryptopp and sqlite3 third-party libraries used by the agent have been updated for increased security

Product Documentation: Agent Documentation

Please find more about the content of this release in the Release Notes.