AuthorA. Gianotto

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

Snipe-IT v5.1.0 Released

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Hello friends! Lots and lots of small fixes for you in this release. We’re jazzed to announce that we’ve made some big improvements on the dark mode skins, improved the UX and UI of the login and forgotten password screens, added the long-awaited feature to change an asset’s status on checkout (deployable status labels only), and fixed the double-encoding on...

Neat Crontab Tool

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Crontabs are important to many systems, and are SO easy to monkey up, especially if you don’t have to change them often.

If you find yourself struggling with remembering the order of the numbers, check out this handy tool at

Snipe-IT v5.0.11 Released

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Happy Tuesday! Just a small bug fix release that should make SAML debugging a little easier and fix a few minor bugs. Fixed Fixed typo on route for licensesFixed #8147 – allow webp image format for public file uploadsFixed #8472 (again) – LDAP sync was assigning a bad default location (#8846)Only overwrite notes if the LDAP user is newAdded LDAP flag in users GET...

The Awkwardness of Branding and Naming Things in Open Source SaaS

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When I first made Snipe-IT over 7 years ago, it was a small project I created on my holiday break when I was the CTO of an ad agency in New York City. Asset Management mattered to me, and every other piece of software I found that did what I needed was awful, overpriced, or both. I never imagined it would be so important to so many other folks as well, so I wasn’t thinking about it as...

Updating Hosted Customers to Snipe-IT v5

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It’s been a few weeks now that v5 is out, and we’re very excited to get it in the hands of all of our customers. We thought we’d take the opportunity to clarify what that schedule looks like, and why it’s taking longer than usual to get our fleet updated. First off, we typically do wait a week or two to update our hosted customers after a major release is pushed out...

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