Yesterday, we released v8.0.0 of Snipe-IT (and today, the inevitable v8.0.1)! While the feature list looks a little light for a major release, we had to tag it as v8 because the minimum PHP requirement changed – but I’ll explain more about that a bit further down. First, the fun stuff: Custom fields on checkin/checkout! (Documentation updates coming shortly) Breadcrumbs for better UX...
Just a few days ago, a patch for CVE-2024-52301 was to Laravel’s core, Laravel being the PHP framework we use here at Grokability for Snipe-IT. The patch for this security flaw was released in v7.1.14 earlier today. While hosted customers were NOT affected (we do not have register_argc_argv enabled on any of our servers), self-hosted community users and support-only customers are...
As you likely know, we have two public demos of Snipe-IT, the version that’s on the master branch, and the version that’s on develop. We’ve had these public demos for years, so we’ve learned a thing or two about how people behave on public demos. 99% of the time, folks use the demos for their intended purpose, but that 1% can make things really annoying. We’ve seen...
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...
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