IMPORTANT: This release requires PHP 7.1.3 or greater. If your minimum password setting in Admin > Settings was previously less than 8, you should update this to 8 or greater before upgrading. Failure to update this may cause other settings to fail on saving. It’s finally here! The long-awaited v5 of Snipe-IT is finally here. I’m probably missing some of the new...
Introducing Canada Central
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of a new datacenter in the family! New Canadian customers can now select Montreal as the location where their data should reside. To sign-up on the Canadian servers when you sign up for Snipe-IT, simply select “Canada Central” from the Region selector. If you’re an existing Snipe-IT hosted customer who would like to be migrated over...
Snipe-IT v4.9.1 Released
IMPORTANT: This release requires PHP 7.1.3 or greater. This release brings a ton of accessibility fixes, a set of new dark-mode skins (and a new high-contrast skin), a few bug fixes, and a few UI improvements. High Contrast: Example of colored skin in dark mode: To use these new skins, go to Admin Settings > Branding and select them from the dropdown. Improved “Add field to...
Managing Stress, Anxiety and Depression During COVID-19
My team at Grokability has been fully distributed since I started the company five years ago. Some of us are local, some of us are halfway across the country, and some even in other countries. All of us work from home all the time. While you’d think we’d be just fine dealing with the self-isolation and social-distancing we’re all (hopefully) practicing during the COVID-19 pandemic, this is…...
Snipe-IT at Laracon
We’re thrilled to have been invited to be a speaker at Laracon Online, with over 4,000 attendees and over 100 countries represented. My talk was on some of the challenges you face when 1) running an open source project 2) running an open source product on Laravel and 3) running a business off of your open source product that runs on Laravel. I should make it very clear here –...