As you likely know by now, v7 of Snipe-IT dropped a few weeks ago. Those of you who have been with us for a long time know that those major version releases can be pretty tough. When you’re hoisting the underlying framework by several versions, upgrading dependencies, plus adding features, things can get messy fast. Making sure that we cover as many possible versions as possible for our...
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Snipe-IT used to use a chat platform called Gitter. (It might still exist, I’m not sure.) It was free, easy to integrate if you already had a Github account, and gave us the ability to interact in real-time with our users without having to manage our own chat service. We did have an IRC channel for a while, but we didn’t get a lot of...
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...
We’re thrilled to announce a new repo available today that will be a handy source of Google Apps Scripts for Snipe-IT users who need to manage a one-off data change and don’t have the time or coding resources to do it themselves.
We don’t have a lot up there just yet, but star or watch the repo for updates on when new scripts are released!
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