AuthorA. Gianotto

Alison is the founder and CEO of Grokability, Inc, the company that makes the open source product Snipe-IT.

Snipe-IT v7 is Out!

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Finally! Whew! Today we released v7 of Snipe-IT. This release upgrades the underlying framework from Laravel 8 to Laravel 10, and also now makes Snipe-IT compatible up to v8.3 of PHP. (PHP 8.1 is still open for long term security support until Jan 1, 2026.) Each major release has its friction points, of course. Anybody who says otherwise is lying. As an open source project, we have to cover a lot...

Snipe-IT v7 Roadmap

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The long-awaited Snipe-IT v7 launch looms nearer, so we wanted to loop you in on where we’re at. We had planned on launching v7 in early November, to coincide with Snipe-IT’s ten-year anniversary (!!) but between holidays schedules and the framework upgrade (with dependencies), it’s been taking a little longer than we had hoped. Dependency management means testing each library...

Learn to Code by Playing Games

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Whether you’re just starting out in coding or are a seasoned dev who wants to learn a new language, there’s always room to hone your skills. Even if your primary focus isn’t developing software, knowing a bit of code can up your game, make your tech job easier, and sometimes open new doors in your career. Learning to code isn’t always fun and games, but there are loads of...

Quick update on Log4j

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Having received multiple inquiries from customers about how (or whether) we are impacted by the recently announced log4j “log4shell” vulnerability, we felt it prudent to update all of our customers (and open source users) en-masse. The short answer, and good news for all of us, is that we are not impacted at all, as we don’t use log4j, or any Java, in any of our systems. This includes both...

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