FlexNet Manager Update: Application Recognition Library #2710 and Service Life Data Pack #557 are available

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What's new in this release

Changes to note:

• New EOL dates added for 75 applications
• Updated EOL dates for 16 applications
• We have removed 40,722 applications that have been historically curated without adhering to consistent standards. Various drivers, updates, patches, fixes, and other artifacts have been added to the ARL. For more details please refer to the following post: Content Change Notification – ARL Applications Removal list

Count of new applications added:

Publisher	Number of Applications
National Instruments	26
IBM	18
Google	16
Red Hat	16
Oracle	13
Hexagon	11
IObit	10
Siemens	9
Actian	8
Certara	6
Others	465
Total	598

Current Library Totals:

• Number of applications in ARL: 334,774 across  22,101 publishers.
• Number of evidence recognition rules: 2,110,848
  • Installer evidence rules: 1,335,760
  • File evidence rules: 690,178
  • WMI evidence rules: 1458
  • Application suite evidence rules: 360
  • Number of commercial applications with service life dates: 83,092

Details of changes in the ARL

You can inspect changes made in this ARL release as per the following links:

• List of new applications added: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewApplicationsARL2710
• List of new versions of applications added: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewVersionsARL2710
• List of new publishers added: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewPublishersARL2710
• List of applications updated in the release: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=UpdatedApplicationsARL2710
• List of applications deleted in the release: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=DeletedApplicationsARL2710
  
  

  Note: This list includes the 40,722 applications referenced above that have been removed after being historically curated without adhering to consistent standards, along with other applications removed through business-as-usual content updates.

Updating library data

FlexNet Manager Cloud: These updates are expected to be installed prior to Monday, October 24th, 2022.

FlexNet Manager On-premises: This library release will be applied to your FlexNet Manager according to schedule settings and processes configured for your instance. If your environment requires to you manually download and update library data, see the following article for guidance: Downloading the FlexNet Manager Suite Content libraries manually.

You can inspect the versions of currently installed libraries using the system Menu > System Health > System Health Dashboard menu option in FlexNet Manager.

Upcoming ARL and Service Life Data Pack updates: We nominally expect the next ARL and Service Life Data Pack updates to be published on or around Friday, October 28th, 2022

Reporting issues with ARL and SLDP updates

Should you have any issues related to FlexNet Manager library data, please submit a case by logging in to the Flexera Community and then selecting the Get Support > Open new case menu option.

We are interested in feedback on these announcements. If you have any questions or suggestions for improvements, please comment below.

We trust that you will find this update helpful and look forward to continually improving your application recognition results.