Official release of Snow Inventory Agent for macOS 26.1.1

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

Release Date: 2026-06-10

This release includes:

• Java_Home detection with environment variables
• Binary security enhancement
• Web Metering Improvements
• Fix HTTP headers content type
• Performance improvements for Oracle scanners
• Command elevation improvements
• Fix for folder transversal when the name overlap
• Fix for SwidTag collection
• Third-party libraries updated

Customer Impact:

• It is now possible to use environment variables in the env.java_home system setting.
• The agent has been improved to prevent library injection.
• 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.
• NOTE: 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.
• 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 agent now correctly collects swidtags found in the include paths.
• 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.