As part of ARL-Technopedia content unification, specifically the lifecycle content between Software Lifecycle Data Pack (SLDP) and Technopedia Lifecycle Content Pack, we plan on making improvements on EOL dates in SLDP by bringing: new EOL dates for ~30k applications updated EOL dates for ~10k applications These changes are expected to be part of the 3rd week of the October ARL release.   This kicks off the automation of dates synchronization from Technopedia to SLDP as part of the weekly ARL release going forward. ... View more

Change Title Celartem to Extensis Product Divestiture Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary   Flexera is going to remove M&A between Celartem and Extensis since Extensis is still active. References: 1. Extensis was sold to Celartem in 2002. URL: https://www.extensis.com/our-story 2. According to archive Extensis's official website copyright information, during the 2002 acquisition and 2012, Extensis was an independent division of Celartem, after 2012 Celartem, Inc. dba Extensis. URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20121212180532/http://www.extensis.com/ Thus, Extensis is standalone, and Celartem should only include its own products other than Extensis's. We will update all products/releases/mappings from 'Celartem' back to 'Extensis'. This will mean that Celartem’s products will change to 'Extensis' as the manufacturer. All Extensis's products under the manufacturer 'Celartem' will be marked as 'to be deleted'.       Impact This change will impact customers who rely on not only Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names but also discovered data that was previously mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. The spreadsheet Extensis Product List.xlsx provides the full list of all the Technopedia products for which the manufacturer name has been changed from 'Celartem' to 'Extensis'.   When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from October 6 th to October 13 th ... View more

What: Virtual Network and Virtual Mainframes come into normalization via hardware pipeline (along with, e.g., switches, mainframes). Currently, they are normalized to Manufacturer-level only (i.e., no Technopedia product and model is specified). The proposed change is to normalize Virtual Network and Virtual Mainframes to Technopedia hardware products and models under Network Equipment – Virtual Network and Computers – Virtual Mainframes category/subcategory. Why: The proposed change is intended to address: the need to clearly identify whether virtual network and virtual mainframes are normalized or not—if normalized, they need to be associated with Technopedia product and categorization the need to have a single view of all inventoried devices, regardless of physical or virtual the need to capture additional details provided by the discovery source on the virtual network and virtual mainframes Current vs. Future Behavior: SCENARIO CURRENT BEHAVIOR FUTURE BEHAVIOR Normalization Normalized to manufacturer-only Normalized to hardware product and/or model Technopedia product/model None Representative hardware product and/or model for virtual network and virtual mainframes Technopedia category/subcategory None Computers – Virtual Mainframes or Network Equipment – Virtual Network Virtual identifier Virtual flag (‘Yes’) Technopedia category/subcategory and Virtual flag (‘Yes’)   Examples: Current Behavior on Virtual Network and Virtual Mainframes    Examples: Future Behavior on Virtual Network and Virtual Mainframes    Potential Impact These changes will have an impact on Data Platform, IT Visibility, and Technopedia users: who rely on Is Virtual flag to identify virtual network and virtual mainframes who expect Technopedia manufacturer to be populated but Technopedia product and model to be empty for virtual network and virtual mainframes who manage hardware products, as representative hardware products and models are being introduced with potentially blank values for hardware enrichment data (e.g., lifecycle dates, hardware specifications, etc.) who manage hardware taxonomy, as two new categories/subcategories are being introduced: Computers – Virtual Mainframes and Network Equipment – Virtual Network When: The changes will be implemented in 2 (two) weeks from this post. ... View more

Change Title Update on Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTP Server Minor Versions Change Type Class 2 Change Summary Apache Tomcat (Product ID: 48) Minor versions of major versions 7.0.x, 8.5.x, 9.0.x,10.0.x will be kept in Technopedia and, since these versions are still currently supported or just recently reached EOL, we'll also map Normalize data to them. Minor versions for other major versions (e.g., 5.0.x, 6.0.x, 8.0.x) will also be kept in Technopedia; however, they are not going to be used in Normalize mapping since they have already been EOL for a long time (more than three years). Apache HTTP Server (Product ID: 80850) Minor versions of major version 2.4.x will be kept and, since these versions are still currently supported, Normalize mappings will also be done to them. Minor versions from other major versions will also be kept in Technopedia; however, they are not going to be used in Normalize mapping since they have already been EOL for a long time (more than three years). These minor versions were previously flagged as 'To be deleted'. These flags will be removed (i.e., these minor versions will not be deleted). Going forward, any newly released minor versions for these products will continue to be captured in Technopedia as well as being used in Normalize mappings. Note that for security/vulnerability use-cases, we continue to map every detail/granular version of CPE to the discovered or evidence version, regardless of whether Normalize mapped them to major or minor versions. Impact This change will impact customers who rely on the version information of Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTP Server in Technopedia. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization .   Change example: Raw evidence/discovered data : Apache Tomcat 7.0.12 Apache Tomcat 8.5.12 Apache HTTP Server 2.4.10 Previous Mapping After the Change Apache | HTTP Server | 2.4 Apache | HTTP Server | 2.4.10 Apache | Tomcat | 7.0 Apache | Tomcat | 7.0.12 Apache | Tomcat | 8.5 Apache | Tomcat | 8.5.12 For the full list of releases that will get impacted by these changes, please refer to the attachment below. When Customers should expect these changes to be completed within 4 weeks from the publication date of this notification. ... View more

Change Title New Hardware Categories/Subcategories in Technopedia Taxonomy Class 2 Customers should be aware and be prepared Change Summary Flexera is introducing a new category and three new subcategories into Technopedia for hardware products. The new category will be called Extended Reality (XR) Devices and will come under the existing Peripherals Category group. Category: Extended Reality (XR) Devices Definition: Extended Reality (XR) refers to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables. Subcategories:       1. Augmented Reality (AR) Devices Definition: A type of device that is used in the AR areas. Augmented reality (AR) is the real-time use of information in the form of text, graphics, audio, and other virtual enhancements integrated with real-world objects.       2. Mixed Reality (MR) Devices Definition: A type of device that is used in the MR areas. Mixed reality (MR) is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations, where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real-time. Mixed reality does not exclusively take place in either the physical world or virtual world but is a hybrid of reality and virtual reality.       3. Virtual Reality (VR) Devices Definition: A type of device that is used in the VR areas. Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (e.g., video games), education (e.g., medical or military training), and business (e.g., virtual meetings). Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia product categorization to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. In addition to introducing the new subcategories, 2 (two) hardware products will be realigned from their existing category/subcategory into one of these new categories/subcategories. These Products are provided in the attachment. When Customers should expect these changes to be completed starting from August 27 th to August 31 st 2021. ... View more

Flexera ARL now recognizes the Java Commercial applications down to the build level and has started a process to reduce the number of evidence used for recognition to a minimum to ensure reliability and consistency and remove the risk of errors.   Particularly Java Platform file evidence will be restricted to java.exe on Windows, and all other file evidence will be removed.   Customers should expect to see a significant reduction in the number of files evidence used for Java recognition, but the level of recognition will stay the same.   Jdk.exe and jre.exe are now used to recognize the Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment public and commercial applications.   These changes are going to be part of the 27 th August 2021 ARL release.   The Flex Net Manager Inventory agent, starting with FNMS 2020R2.5, collects evidence on Unix creates file evidence that retrieves the result of the "Java -version" command down to the build level, where available.   Installer Evidence for Java will still be used because customers may use older versions of the agent, but Unix file evidence will be added in the coming quarter. ... View more

Change Title Adobe Creative Cloud Lifecycle and Version Group changes Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions Change Summary As Adobe has announced the Creative Cloud Support Policy, Flexera is planning to create a new support policy for Adobe Creative Cloud products in Technopedia. The details for the new support policy are as follow: Support Policy Creative Cloud Support Policy Support Stage Full Support (This level will be defined as Technopedia EOL) Limited Support (This level will be defined as Technopedia EOS/Obsolete) Definition For the current (N) version of Adobe Creative Cloud, all customers can expect: ·         Feature Updates ·         Bug fixes ·         Security Updates ·         OS Compatibility ·         Assisted Support   Adobe also supports a designated Long Term Supported (LTS) version for Creative Cloud for enterprise customers. These covers: ·         Security Updates ·         Assisted Support Adobe supports previous versions (N-1) for all customers and older versions (N-2) for Creative Cloud only for enterprise customers. Both the previous versions (N-1) and older versions (N-2) are limited in scope, which includes: ·         Assisted Support, only Apply to versions N: Latest version LTS: Long Term Supported Version (This version is available for Creative Cloud for enterprise plans only) N-1: Previous version N-2: Older version (This version is supported for Creative Cloud for enterprise plans only)   According to the support policy, Technopedia Lifecycle dates for End of Life and End of Support will be changing, and some versions of Creative Cloud are no longer supported by Adobe. For example, the latest available version of Photoshop is 22.4.x (CC 2021), full supported versions include: N: CC 2021 (22.x ), this version will be EOL when CC 2022 is released and EOS/Obsolete when CC 2024 is released. LTS: 21.2, this version will be EOL/EOS when the next LTS version is released (LTS is designated by Adobe). Limited supported versions include: N-1: CC 2020 (21.x), this version is EOL when CC 2021 is released and will be EOS/Obsolete when CC 2023 is released. N-2: CC 2019 (20.x), this version is EOL when CC 2020 is released and will be EOS/Obsolete when CC 2022 is released.   In addition, several versions/releases were inaccurately captured under version group CC 2021, whereas they should have been captured under version group CC 2020 instead. These versions/releases will be marked as ‘to be deleted’, and corresponding replacements will be created under the correct version group. These versions/releases include: ·         After Effects, versions 17.5, 17.6 and 17.7 ·         Media Encoder, version 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8 and 14.9 ·         Premiere Pro, version 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8 and 14.9   Impact This change will impact customers who have Creative Cloud products and rely on the Technopedia Lifecycle content pack and discovered previously mapped data to Creative Cloud products. Lifecycle and several version groups will be reviewed and updated. The attached spreadsheet provides the complete list of all releases in scope for this review.   When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from September 2 nd to September 8 th . Reference [1] https://helpx.adobe.com/support/programs/cc-support-policy.html ... View more

Change Title Microsoft Office for Mac 16.x version changes   Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary From September 2018, with the release of version 16.17, Microsoft started to apply the release notes for Office for Mac to Office 2019 and the Microsoft 365 subscription version [1] Microsoft Office for Mac version 16.x has two different license terms: Microsoft 365 subscription license and 2019 license. Versions 16.x with Microsoft 365 subscription and 2019 license share the same version history but with a different lifecycle.[2] 2019 license will be the end of life as of 10/10/2023.[4] However, Microsoft 365 subscription always keeps the applications in support and up-to-date. [3] Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 use the same application and file names, but the license information would not display in normalized discovered data. Flexera will update the Microsoft Office for Mac and its components version 16.x in the Data Platform. We are going to create a separate version group 16 and version 16.x for the Microsoft 365 subscription and 2019 license. The existed version 16.x (2019) will be reserved in Technopedia.   Proposed Action Version Group Version End of Life Obsolete License Remain and update 2019 16.17 (2019) 10/10/2023 10/10/2023 2019 license Create a new entry 16 16.17 12/31/2999 12/31/2999 Microsoft 365 subscription   The components of Microsoft Office for Mac will follow the same changes as Office for Mac; the components are as follow. Microsoft Excel for Mac Microsoft Word for Mac Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac Microsoft Outlook for Mac Microsoft OneNote for Mac All mappings will be reviewed and updated.         Impact   This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names and discovered previously mapped data to version 16.x (2019). They will be reviewed and updated. The attached spreadsheet provides the complete list of all releases in scope for this review that will be created.   When Customers should expect these changes will begin no earlier than August 20 th .   Reference [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-notes-office-for-mac [2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-office-and-the-mac-app-store-ad2293a8-f5aa-4652-ae3f-83dda906d748 [3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-365-apps [4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac   ... View more

FNMS only tracks usage for applications that are detected as installed. If there are no rules to detect the application as installed, then the "Usage rule" is not helpful. In other words, If there are no installation recognition rules but only file evidence (with 'not for recognition' ) usage rules, the application cannot be recognized. Hence, the Flexera Content team is no longer creating any new application for only File evidence with recognition rules as 'Not for recognition.' ... View more

Change Title Information Builders to TIBCO Product Migration Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary   TIBCO has completed the acquisition of Information Builders.   Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘Information Builders’ to ‘TIBCO’.   https://www.tibco.com/press-releases/2021/tibco-completes-acquisition-information-builders           Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names or discovered data that was previously mapped to the old manufacturer; it will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs customers to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.    The spreadsheet Migration from Information Builders to TIBCO.xlsx provides the full list of all the Technopedia products for which the manufacturer name will be renamed from Information Builders to TIBCO.   When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from August 10 th  to August 17 th ... View more

Change Title Fuji Xerox to Fujifilm Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from Fuji Xerox to Fujifilm. As Fuji Xerox Name Change to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp, all products/releases/mappings will be migrated to Fujifilm. https://www.fujifilm.com/fbglobal/eng/company/news/release/2020/2390         Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. The spreadsheet Fuji Xerox Migrated to Fujifilm Product list provides the complete list of all the software products for which the publisher name will be renamed from Fuji Xerox to Fujifilm.     When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from August 6 th to August 12 th . ... View more

Change Title Mentor migration to Siemens Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from Mentor to Siemens. Mentor was acquired by Siemens. https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-closes-mentor-graphics-acquisition         Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names, and discovered data that was previously mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and to report in their organization. The spreadsheet Mentor migrates to Siemens Product list - Updated.xlsx provides the full list of all the software products for which the publisher name has been renamed from Mentor to Siemens. Update: The change is complete.  When Customers should expect these changes to complete starting from July 23rd to July 29th.   ... View more

Change Title Ellora Assets to Mixbyte Product Divestiture Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take action Change Summary Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from 'Ellora Assets' to 'Mixbyte', as the official name has been changed. This will mean that Ellora Assets products will change to have 'Mixbyte' as the manufacturer. https://www.freemake.com/1/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150515193331/http://www.freemake.com/   Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names, and discovered data that was previously mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and to report in their organization.   When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from July 23rd to July 29th. Update The changes ar complete. The spreadsheet Ellora Assets to Mixbyte Product List - Updated.xlsx provides the full list of all the Technopedia products for which the manufacturer name has been renamed from 'Ellora Assets' to 'Mixbyte'. ... View more

Change Title SentryOne to SolarWinds Product Migration Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary   SolarWinds has acquired SentryOne.   Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘SentryOne’ to ‘SolarWinds’.   https://www.sentryone.com/blog/sentryone-to-join-the-solarwinds-family           Impact This change will impact customers who relied on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names and discovered that previously mapped data to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs customers to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.      When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from July 16 th  to July 22 nd Note: The changes have been complete. The spreadsheet Migration from SentryOne to SolarWinds - Updated.xlsx provides the full list of all the Technopedia products for which the manufacturer name have been renamed from SentryOne to  SolarWinds.    ... View more