Apple Final Cut Pro (Volumen) 6.0.5 serial key or number

Final Cut Pro is a series of non-linear video editing software programs first developed by Macromedia Inc. and later Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X 10.4.8, runs on Intel-based Mac computers powered by macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or later. The software allows users to log and transfer video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats. The fully rewritten Final Cut Pro X was introduced by Apple in 2011, with the last version of the legacy Final Cut Pro being version 7.0.3.

Since the early 2000s, Final Cut Pro has developed a large and expanding user base, mainly video hobbyists and independent filmmakers. It had also made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Technology's Media Composer. According to a 2007 SCRI study, Final Cut Pro made up 49% of the United States professional editing market, with Avid at 22%.^[2] A published survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21% Final Cut Pro (and growing from previous surveys of this group), while all others were on an Avid system of some kind.^[3]

Features[edit]

Final Cut Pro provides non-linear, non-destructive editing of any QuickTime-compatible video format including DV, HDV, P2 MXF (DVCProHD), XDCAM (via plug-in), 2K, 4K, 5K, and 8K film formats^[4] and can import projects directly from iMovie for iOS and iPadOS. It supports a number of simultaneously composited video tracks (limited mainly by video form capability); unlimited audio tracks; multi-camera editing for combining video from multiple camera sources; 360º video editing support; as well as the standard ripple, roll, slip, slide, scrub, razor blade and time remapping edit functions. It comes with a range of video transitions and a range of video and audio filters such as keying tools, mattes and vocal de-poppers and de-essers. It also has multiple color correction tools including color wheels, sliders and curves, video scopes and a selection of generators, such as slugs, test cards, and noise.^[4]

Interface[edit]

The legacy (v. 7.0.3 and earlier) Final Cut (Pro and Express) interface was designed around non-computerized editing workflows, with four main windows that replicate tried-and-trusted methods of organising, viewing and editing physical tape or film media. The browser, where source media files (or clips) are listed, replicates the editor's traditional film "bins" or stacks of videotapes. The Viewer, where individual media files can be previewed and trimmed, replicates the source monitor of older tape-based systems. The Canvas replicates the "program" monitor in such systems, where the edited material is viewed. The Timeline, where media are assembled into a sequence, replicates the physically edited film or master tape of earlier systems. There is also a small Toolbox window and two audio-level indicators for the left and right audio channels.

Both the Viewer and Canvas have a shuttle interface (for variable-speed scanning, forwards or backwards through a clip) and a jogging interface for frame-by-frame advancing.

Browser[edit]

As in most digital non-linear editing applications, the Browser is not an interface to the computer's file-system. It is an entirely virtual space in which references to clips (aliases) are placed for easy access, and arranged in folders called 'bins'. Since they are only references to clips that are on the media drive of the computer, moving or deleting a source file on the media hard drive destroys the link between the entry in the Browser and the actual media. This results in a 'media offline' situation, and the media must be 'reconnected'. Final Cut Pro can search for the media itself, or the user can do this manually. If multiple clips are offline at the same time, Final Cut can reconnect all the offline media clips that are in the relative directory path as the first offline media clips that is reconnected.

The browser has an 'effects' tab in which video transitions and filters can be browsed and dragged onto or between clips.

Canvas[edit]

The canvas outputs the contents of the Timeline. To add clips to the Timeline, besides dragging them there, it is possible to drag clips from the Browser or Viewer onto the Canvas, whereupon the so-called 'edit overlay' appears. The edit overlay has seven drop zones, into which clips can be dragged in order to perform different edits. The default is the 'overwrite' edit, which overwrites at an in point or the space occupied after the playhead with the incoming clip. The 'insert' edit slots a clip into the sequence at the in point or playhead's position, keeping the rest of the video intact, but moving it all aside so that the new clip fits. There are also drop zones to have the application automatically insert transitions. The 'replace' edit replaces a clip in the Timeline with an incoming clip, and the 'fit to fill' edit does the same thing, but at the same time, it adjusts the playback speed of the incoming clip so that all of it will fit into the required space [in the Timeline]. Finally there is the 'superimpose' edit, which automatically places the dropped clip on the track above the clip in the Timeline, with a duration equal to the clip below it. Unless an in or out point are set, all edits occur from the position of the playhead in the Timeline.

Using the wireframe view on the canvas, the clip can be manipulated directly - dragging it around in the canvas to change its position, for example, or resizing it. Precise adjustment controls for these things are in the viewer.

Viewer[edit]

The viewer has tabs for each channel of the selected clip's audio, in which the waveform for the audio can be viewed and scrubbed, and where its volume can be keyframed. The filters tab is where effects for the clip appear and where their parameters can be adjusted and keyframed. If the clip selected is a generator (such as an oval shape), a control tab appears for changing its geometrical properties. Finally, the viewer's motion tab contains tools to adjust the scale, opacity, cropping, rotation, distortion, drop shadow, motion blur and time remapping properties of a clip. Mini-timelines to the right of each parameter allow the property to be keyframed. The Viewer is not present in Final Cut Pro X.

Timeline[edit]

Clips can be edited together in timelines called sequences. Sequences can be nested inside other sequences, so that a filter or transition can be applied to the grouped clips.

The Timeline in Final Cut Pro allows 99 video tracks to be layered on top of each other. If a clip is higher [in the timeline] than another, then it obscures whatever is below it. The size of a video clip can be altered, and the clips can be cropped, among many other settings that can be changed. Opacity levels can also be altered, as well as animated over the course of the clip using keyframes, defined either on a graphical overlay, or in the Viewer's 'motion' tab, where precise percentage opacity values can be entered. Final Cut also has more than a dozen common compositing modes that can be applied to clips, such as Add, Subtract, Difference, Screen, Multiply, Overlay, and Travel Matte Luma/Alpha.

The compositing mode for a clip is changed by control-clicking or right-clicking on the clip and selecting it from the cascading contextual menu, or by selecting the mode from the application's 'modify' menu. For either matte modes, the clip that will perform the key is placed overneath the fill clip on the Timeline.

For more advanced compositing Final Cut Pro is compatible with Apple's Shake (discontinued) and Apple Motion software.

Keyboard shortcuts[edit]

Final Cut Pro uses a set of hot-keys to select the tools. There are almost 400 keyboard commands that allow the user to increase the speed of edits.^[5] This combined with the nonlinear approach that digital editing, provides Final Cut Pro users with several editing options.

Users can also set their own customisable keyboard preferences.

History[edit]

Randy Ubillos created the first three versions of Adobe Premiere, the first popular digital video editing application.^[6] Before version 5 was released, Ubillos' group was hired by Macromedia to create KeyGrip, built from the ground up as a more professional video-editing program based on Apple QuickTime. Macromedia could not release the product without causing its partner Truevision some issues with Microsoft, as KeyGrip was, in part, based on technology from Microsoft licensed to Truevision and then in turn to Macromedia. The terms of the IP licensing deal stated that it was not to be used in conjunction with QuickTime. Thus, Macromedia was forced to keep the product off the market until a solution could be found. At the same time, the company decided to focus more on applications that would support the web, so they sought to find a buyer for their non-web applications, including KeyGrip, which by 1998 was renamed Final Cut.

Final Cut was shown in private room demonstrations as a 0.9 alpha at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) exposition in 1998 after Macromedia pulled out of the main show floor. At the demonstration, both Mac and Windows versions were shown. The Mac version was working with a Truevision RTX dual stream real time card with limited real time effects. When no purchaser could be found, Apple purchased the team as a defensive move. When Apple could not find a buyer in turn, it continued development work, focusing on adding FireWire/DV support and introduced Final Cut Pro at NAB 1999.

In order that Final Cut Pro would be supported from the beginning with third-party self-paced and instructor-led training, Apple worked with DVcreators.net, who released a training disc called "Final Cut Pro PowerStart" at NAB on the day Final Cut Pro was released. Apple worked with DVcreators.net to host hundreds of free and paid Final Cut Pro seminars and workshops in 60 cities in the U.S., Canada and other countries over the following years, a strategy that some feel fundamentally contributed to Final Cut Pro's early awareness in the marketplace and rise in market share.

After the introduction of Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere's market share remained strong on Windows but began to decline on the Mac as its older codebase was more difficult to maintain. In 2003, Apple announced a program for Premiere users to trade in their discs for a free copy of Final Cut Express or a $500 discount on Final Cut Pro.^[7]

Final Cut Pro benefited from the relative maturity of QuickTime and its native support for then-new DV cameras connected with FireWire (IEEE1394).

The first fully Broadcast quality, Worldwide Distributed TV show produced on Final Cut Pro was 2000's WOW! Women of Wrestling, using the Pinnacle CinéWave uncompressed video card. The Oxygen Network was a beta site for Final Cut Pro in late 1999 through network launch in early 2000. Shows like ShE-Commerce were cut using FCP.

In late 2001, Independent Producer, Michael A. Bloom announced in an interview with Larry King while defending his controversial film "PlayCouples, A New Era Of Swinging (2003)" was made possible only after his transition from Avid Media Composer to Final Cut Pro. He cited the relatively new platform hadn't failed once while rendering his film which was not what he experience with Avid. After completing much of the leg work under a separate agreement between The Oxygen Network and his production company during beta testing of Final Cut he became an outspoken advocate. The studio motion picture The Rules of Attraction was edited on beta versions of Final Cut Pro 3, proving to the film industry that successful 3:2 pulldown matchback to 24fps could be achieved with a "consumer" off-the-shelf product.^[8]Roger Avary, the film's director became the spokesperson for Final Cut Pro, appearing in print advertisements worldwide. His advocacy of the product gave confidence to mainstream editors such as Walter Murch, that the product was ready for "prime time."

In August 2002, the application won a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for its impact on the television industry.^[9]

Final Cut Pro 4 was announced in April 2003. It included three new applications: Compressor, used for the transcoding between video formats; LiveType for advanced titling (such as the creation of animated lower thirds); and Soundtrack, for royalty-free music soundtrack creation. It also bundled Cinema Tools, which was previously sold separately for filmmakers working with telecine.

Also in 2003, Apple launched Final Cut Express, a less expensive version of Final Cut Pro. It uses the same interface as Final Cut Pro, but it lacks some of the film-specific tools and other advanced options, limiting the feature set for non-professional editors. In January 2005, Soundtrack and LiveType, previously only available with Final Cut Pro, were added to Express, and features were added to edit HDV. Soundtrack was subsequently removed with Final Cut Express 4. In June 2011, Final Cut Express was officially discontinued, in favor of Final Cut Pro X.

In April 2004, version 4.5 of Final Cut Pro was introduced and branded by Apple as "Final Cut Pro HD" due to its native support for Panasonic's tape-based DVCPRO HD format for compressed 720p and 1080i HD over FireWire. (The software had been capable of uncompressed HD editing since version 3.0, but at the time had required expensive video cards and high speed storage.)

Final Cut Pro 5 was announced at a pre-NAB event in April, and shipped in May 2005. Final Cut Pro 5 added support for the burgeoning HDV format for compressed HD, which had previously been supported in Final Cut Pro's "scaled-down" cousin, Final Cut Express. Final Cut Pro 5 also added support for Panasonic's P2 format for the recording of DVCPRO HD video to memory cards rather than tape.

In January 2006, Apple stopped selling Final Cut Pro as a stand-alone product. In March 2006 the Universal Binary 5.1 version was released as part of Final Cut Studio. Upgrades were achieved by sending the original installation discs back to Apple with a fee. One noticeable difference is that the Intel versions of Final Cut and Motion no longer recognize After Effects plug-ins. Instead, Apple released its own universal plug-in architecture FxPlug.

On April 15, 2007, Apple revealed Final Cut Pro 6.0, as the cornerstone of the Final Cut Studio 2 bundle. Once again, Apple did not have a booth at NAB 2009, though the product was well represented on the show floor in various booths. The RED Camera team relied heavily on FCP during development.

On July 23, 2009, Final Cut Pro 7/Final Cut Studio 3 (not officially designated as such by Apple but adopted by most users to describe the 2009 changes) was released, but it was not yet a 64-bit application.

Final Cut Pro X was announced on April 12, 2011 and released on June 21.^[10][11] It is a 64-bit application completely rebuilt with a new interface, workflow enhancements and automation, and new features such as ColorSync integration, resolution-independent playback system, system scaling with Core Animation, and more. The three Final Cut Studio apps, Color, Soundtrack Pro, and DVD Studio Pro were dropped, while Motion 5 and Compressor 4 were released onto the Mac App Store.

In its initial release, Final Cut Pro X was met with mixed reviews as many video editors eschewed its dramatic departure from the traditional editing interface and the dropping of many legacy (and some non-legacy) features. At the time of the initial release, a significant number of long-time Final Cut Pro users considered the new product to be an unsatisfactory product undeserving to be part of Final Cut Pro product line.^[12] An online petition was started demanding either the continued development of the legacy Final Cut Pro product or its sale to a third party by January 1, 2012. The initiator of the petition was banned from the Apple discussion forums.^[13] By January 2014, the petition had received well over 9,000 signatures.

On October 27, 2016, Apple unveiled Final Cut Pro X 10.3, which included a redesigned interface, enhanced window resizing, extended multiple display support, support for the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro, and an updated version of the Magnetic Timeline.

In December 2017, Apple updated Final Cut Pro X to version 10.4, which included enhanced color editing tools, 360-degree video editing support and support for HDR. The new version also supports the HEVC video format and HEIF photo format. Final Cut Pro X 10.4 has also gained the ability to import projects from iMovie for iOS, and now supported enhanced performance on the iMac Pro.^[14]

File format[edit]

A Final Cut Pro Project technically consists of separate files:

• Project File
• Media Source Files
• Render Files, Cache Files

The location of the Media and the Render/Cache Files is not standardised. Final Cut Pro can be configured where to store them. Some users have a central directory where they store all their Source/Render/Cache files, some set those file paths to their specific project directory, so that they have all project files at one place.

After having finished a project, one can erase everything but the project file, to save disk space, and at a later time Final Cut Pro can re-capture/re-link all source data and recalculate all render and cache data, provided it can access all linked sources.

Project file[edit]

The first versions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express used a binary file which contained all montage information such as timecode information, clip's in/out-points, size/crop/position, composition nesting, filter settings, automation data, etc.

More recent editions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express, before Final Cut Pro X, used the file extension .

The latest version of Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro X, uses a new file extension; . Apple has come under some criticism for not supporting the older project files, when it does support importing iMovie projects ( files).^[15] This concern has been addressed through the use of third party software, allowing for the migration of legacy FCP file formats into working FCPX libraries and projects. The software is called 7toX^[16] and was developed by Philip Hodgetts.

Media source files[edit]

Either captured from tape or loaded/imported from the file system.

Render files, cache files, etc.[edit]

Files which are generated by Final Cut Pro, i.e. audio waveform display, filter effects, etc.

Major films edited with Final Cut Pro[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Product name: Snow License Manager

Current version: 9.7.1

Status: Released,   Phased rollout (GA: 2020-09-10)

9.7.1 (2020-08-19)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.7.1 here

• Enhancement: SLM access based on AD groups

• SaaS enhancements

  • "Microsoft Office 365 users who may be double licensed" has been enhanced to cover more application bundles.
  • Data Access Service's repetitive RouteNotFound error has been fixed.
  • For improving the performance of getting user activities information from the SLM database the new non-clustered index was added to tblComputerApplicationUsers.
  • Fixed a defect in processing queued aggregations and ensured that they are processed in the correct order by date.

• SAM enhancements

  • Applications installed/used outside of the specific SLM user's organization node will appear in the "Search for Applications" page at all.
  • Included a search filter in the manual downgrade path view.
  • Licensing of virtual processors for SQL Server 2008 R2 and earlier versions has been improved to be aligned with Microsoft’s guidelines.
  • Search for Applications will now include the summary total for Installations and Users.
  • The report "License tracking per computer" now includes the columns "DRS Enabled" and "High availability enabled"
  • The application metadata columns, Application URL, Privacy Policy URL, and Terms & Conditions URL have been added in the search for application page and following reports:
    • “All applications”,
    • “Application compliance history”,
    • “Applications per computer”,
    • “Applications per computer and user report”.
• FIX- New or updated Software Recognition rules applied correctly to data coming from an external data source through Snow Integration Manager (PRB0042839).
• FIX- We now consider active maintenance dates for upgrade rights in the Application Family view. (PRB0043212).
• FIX- Editing a License with an invalid metric no longer shows an exception message, instead it will display a warning and a default metric will be selected instead (PRB0043214).
• FIX- Delimiter configuration will now be considered during imports of organizations in Snow Management and Configuration Center (04356479).
• FIX- The application store properties are now available in the Web Configurator import mappings table (PRB0043225).
• FIX- It is now possible to print pages which contain more than 50 rows of data in tables, where the print selection button is available (PRB0043223).
• FIX- The effects of the ANONYMOUS_USER_MANAGEMENT setting in SMACC has been extended (PRB0043228).
• FIX- Clicking the "Add License" link, in the shortcuts Snowboard widget, as a user with limited permissions will correctly redirect to the "Access rights" page (PRB0043230).
• FIX- Columns in reports are now aligned correctly when the horizontal bar is shown. (PRB0043229).
• FIX- Computers with Operating Systems that are considered bundled will now properly be displayed in the Applications Details page under the Computers tab (04363873).
• FIX- Generating the "Application per user" report without setting any criteria will now limit the initial result set to data from a maximum of 20 users. Setting a criteria or scheduling the report will disable the limit. A further performance improvement of the report is planned for an upcoming release (04363681).
• FIX- It is now possible to use the feature "archive computer if not in the file" when importing (04364690).
• FIX- An improvement of performance has been made following a previous fix on the Search for Computers page (04364284).
• FIX- Bulk delete computers through edit computer page works again. (04411738).
• FIX- The All computers report will now include computers that haven't reported an operating system (04412749).
• FIX- CCV names longer than 20 characters are no longer limiting the application search in the license page. (04364152).
• FIX- It is now possible to import Agreements and Licenses when the Root organization name contains a space (04413161).
• FIX- Extended support for handling special characters in lists, reports, and exports. (04414364, 04414735, 04414731)
• FIX- Duplication in the French translation caused issues when utilizing criteria in reports. (04414743).
• FIX- Fixed an error causing the Dropbox SaaS connector to display wrong data in the username field. (04414861)
• FIX- We now properly create new organizations where the root organization name contains a space character during imports (04415052).
• FIX- Extended Support Ends value of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 12.1 is updated so that it is aligned with official Oracle documentation (PRB0043238).
• FIX- The hostname generated by the scanner will now match the one from the agent and will be correctly matched with an appropriate Oracle Middleware WebLogic server (04356614).
• FIX- Oracle estate server virtualization data flow is enhanced to handle better different lifecycle change events over time (04364268).
• FIX- The batch-sizes in the Office365 service settings has been default reduced to avoid that payload size gets exceeded during migration (PRB0043191)
• FIX- For better ability to adjust data requests timeouts new timeout configuration settings are introduced in the appsettings.json that belong to the Office365 service. (04364769)
• FIX- The "Bundle content"-page will now be shown for Operating system that are flagged as application bundles.
• FIX- Overall Oracle UI is improved in several sections, including dashboard filter behavior, pop-ups visibility, and cross-platform / cross-browser compatibility including Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on Mac OS (PRB0043215).

9.7.0 (2020-06-17)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.7.0 here

• Enhancement: Oracle enhancements
  • Oracle licensing engine is improved.
  • The filter in the Orders & Licenses section is improved.
  • The design of the Oracle agreements was updated
  • An additional column (IP Address) is available for the Oracle Server Worksheet 2.0 report
  • Improved core factor
  • Updated Oracle processor core factor value
  • Visual improvements within the Compliance summary page
• Enhancement: SaaS enhancements
  • Additional Office 365 activity datasets within a report
  • A new cloud report named "SaaS Connectors - All users" has been added.
• Enhancement: SAM enhancements
  • Enhanced overview of the license requirement calculation.
  • Application type structure improvements.
  • All lifecycle dates are now editable
  • Clear overview of host coverage
  • Report enhancements
• FIX- When you delete a computer in License Manager the computer will also be removed in Snow Inventory. (PRB0042596).
• FIX- The correct core factor value is being mapped for the SPARC T5 and SPARC M7 processors (PRB0043168).
• FIX- Oracle estate items without basic hardware information and its Oracle product installations are now excluded from the Oracle compliance engine license requirements calculation and will get compliance status "Incomplete data". Oracle compliance engine will successfully calculate requirements and status for other Oracle estate items and its Oracle product installations.
• FIX- Added validation to the license import to now allow the combination auto to allocate Yes and assignment type other than Organization. (PRB0043186).
• FIX- Known limitation: Some latest Intel Xeon processor types will be resolved as Oracle Core factor of 1.
• FIX- Within the Orders and Licenses section, the "Oracle order number" field (that can be entered as part of a new order or edited as part of an existing order) now can contain characters like "/" and "-".
• FIX- Computer status in Snow License Manager (e.g. on the 'Search for computers' page) is now translated to the user's selected language (PRB0043187).
• FIX- Optimized steps update user and metering in Data Update Job (PRB0043193).
• FIX- Error log entries are refined and now created only when critical product issue occurred. Other log entry types (Information, Verbose and Warning) are still being created to provide awareness about important events to customers.
• FIX- Indexing has been improved in the UpdateComputerSoftwareInstalled step of the Data Update Job (PRB0043189).
• FIX- Computers API in SLM now reflects the correct status without the need of an Update job run. (PRB0043200).
• FIX- Subsequent Data Update Job runs will no longer cause duplicate servers to appear in the report "Cloud servers that are not inventoried" (PRB0043207).
• FIX- Updated translations for the description of the reports "All Applications per Computer" and "All Applications per Computer and User" (PRB0043204).
• FIX- PowerBI activity will now be available in the report "Microsoft Office 365 User activity and cost per Subscription Plan" (PRB0043219).

9.6.3 (2020-05-19)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.6.3 here

• ENHANCEMENT- Improvement for Office 365
  • The subscription plans chart can now be filterable by metric type.
  • An exception, caused by having multiple currencies, has been fixed.
  • The "Accumulated total cost" column in the "Microsoft Office 365 subscription plan cost" report is no longer showing the wrong value (a known issue in 9.6.2).
  • The column "Email" is now always visible in the grids that display data from the generic SaaS connectors in SLM. In addition to that, a column selector has also been implemented that holds additional columns gathered from the SaaS connectors.
  • The subscription plans list is now sorting by the total cost (desc).
• ENHANCEMENT- Retire the Software Enterprise agreement functionality and its related service completely
• ENHANCEMENT- Adding Google Compute Engine to tblCloudSource
• FIX- Dependencies have been added to the Data Update Job so data centers won't be built before all virtual machines have been updated.
• FIX- The warning for obsolete computers will no longer be displayed during other types of imports (PRB0043153).
• FIX- License assignment tracking will not allow users to click on OK multiple times to prevent the creation of duplicated licenses. (PRB0043090).
• FIX- Office365 users that are linked to a removed user in SLM will be removed after the next aggregation for Office365. (PRB0043072).
• FIX- We now count users for applications rather than users for computers in the License Compliance stock report (PRB0043097).
• FIX- Improved alerts to match the report (PRB0043093).
• FIX- The "Search for computers" page and "All computers" report in Snow License Manager will now handle the normalization of operating system names in a better way (PRB0043108).
• FIX- Optimized Computer Hardware API which Snow Integration Manager utilizes to send data to ServiceNow (PRB0043101).
• FIX- Improved handling of diacritic characters. (PRB0043120).
• FIX- Machines without processor information are not filtered out from the allocated license list. (PRB0043132).
• FIX- The Snow License Manager notifications service has been improved to better handle certain uncommon date/time formats (PRB0043136).
• FIX- Improved handling of numeric values containing dividers, while editing maintenance and support data for licenses (PRB0043135).
• FIX- Improved Snow License Manager API endpoint for computers to reflect all computer states. (PRB0043134).
• FIX- The organization import setting 'Use upper case for organization friendly name' will now capitalize the first letter in the organization name. (PRB0043140).
• FIX- The User/session state is now kept in the search functionality within SLM. (PRB0043142).
• FIX- Certain localizations no longer generate an exception on the partner Startpage (PRB0043164).
• FIX- We now properly handle the special alphabet during imports, such as Æ which SQL Server considers the same as AE when .NET does not (PRB0043176).
• FIX- Added support for BiosSerialNumber in "search for mobile devices". (PRB0043181).
• FIX- Improved handling of API endpoints to enhance the performance of SIM requests towards ServiceNow. (PRB0043179).

9.6.2 (2020-04-22)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.6.2 here

• ENHANCEMENT- Office 365 Architecture refactor
• FIX- Office365 Costs are not copied in the SPE Edition for all clients. (PRB0043096)
• FIX- Office365 users that are linked to a removed user in SLM will be removed after the next aggregation for Office365. (PRB0043072).
• FIX- Solved an issue with “The given key was not present in the dictionary”. (PRB0043079)
• FIX- Solved an issue with missing tenant's data after the eventstore migration. (PRB0043071)
• FIX- Solved an issue relating to Office365/Nats service crashes. (PRB0043073)
• FIX- Solved an issue with a sequence that contained no matching element in CostProjection. (PRB0043080)
• FIX- Office 365 doesn't throw Bad Request Error following an upgrade to SLM 9.5.01. (PRB0043081)
• FIX- The number of users per subscription plan matches the Office365 portal. (PRB0043069)
• FIX- Irrelevant users listed as “suggested users” in the user linking have been removed. (PRB0043061)
• FIX- Fixed an issue with no users linked presented after starting with a fresh eventstore. (PRB0043055)
• FIX- The NATS service has been improved to not time out during the event store migration. (PRB0043050)
• FIX- Values displayed in the activity grid reflects the actual count in the page. (PRB0043039)

Current version: 9.6.1

9.6.1 (2020-03-11)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.6.1 here

• ENHANCEMENT- Improvement for Office 365 • Added new columns (Country & Department) in: ‘Unlinked Users Report' Note: in order to get this value into the reports, SIM 5.18 or later needs to be installed.
• ENHANCEMENT- Improvement for AdobeCC • Users in the "Potential optimization for users with Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps licenses" are now linked to the user detail page.
• ENHANCEMENT- Oracle Enterprise Edition Options: Real Application Clusters and Real Application Clusters One Node are now properly excluded from license requirements calculation on Standard Edition databases, but there are calculated license requirements on Enterprise Edition databases.
• ENHANCEMENT- Oracle Management Option service optimization: Oracle Management Option background service is being additionally optimized in order to be able to successfully handle large data volumes of computer records when executing Oracle estate processing tasks without affecting SLM UI user interaction.
• FIX- New SLM Maintenance service taking responsibility for "computers delete" and application concurrency cleanup. (PRB0042184).
• FIX- For License Manager sites configured for SSO and Windows Authentication, a user password reset in Active Directory will no longer cause the user to not be able to log in (PRB0042465).
• FIX- A new report is now available, which displays Hyper-V hosts inventory status from Integration Manager and Agents (PRB0042485).
• FIX- A warning will now display when importing computers, for any unmatched computers in the import file (PRB0042579).
• FIX- Navigating to a computer, license, agreement or users that belong to an organization identifier containing a space, will no longer cause a duplicate node key message to be displayed (PRB0042598).
• FIX- License restrictions will now be properly considered both during the first Data Update Job runtime in a new platform and after updating the agreement license cap (PRB0042694, PRB0042569).
• FIX- All Objects report no longer displays duplicate property values (PRB0042997)
• FIX- In the Computer details page, when trying to export the information table, it will now work correctly for computers missing a Scan Identifier (PRB0043001).
• FIX- Virtual Machines that are not inventoried are now listed correctly in the "Physical and virtual servers per datacenter" report (PRB0043012).
• FIX- Computers missing Processor specific information will now successfully transfer to ServiceNow (PRB0043009).
• FIX- Dates for license periods will now sort according to the ValidTo field by default (PRB0043005).
• FIX- Duplicate prevention added on the Discovered assets that are not inventoried report (PRB0043006).
• FIX- Improved handling of XML data in archived computers report. (PRB0043002).
• FIX- Added handling for user anonymization in search of computers. (PRB0043026).
• FIX- Summarizing the metering of commonly used applications no longer halt the update job (PRB0043041).
• FIX- Virtual computers are now excluded from all applications report to prevent duplication of data. (PRB0043042).
• FIX- The Most used application widget on the Snow License Manager snowboard will no longer timeout due to Arithmetic overflow (PRB0043040).
• FIX- The 'Computer status summary' widget on the Snow License Manager Snowboard will no longer include some computers twice (PRB0043044).
• FIX- Added handling for machines reporting with empty core count. (PRB0043034).
• FIX- Correction made to the update job to handle the duplication of oracle management packs (PRB0043052).
• FIX- The SLM partner start page will no longer return an exception when the update job run-time is not following the expected format due to database culture variations (PRB0043021).
• FIX- Correction made to the update job to handle the duplication of computer applications (PRB0043060).
• FIX- The API key will now be set when restarting the SnowLicenseManagerInventory service (PRB0043063).
• FIX- Drilling into an Archived computer which has been archived in earlier releases, should no longer display a page not found message (PRB0043064).
• FIX- License Type is now an allowed verb for license based custom fields. (PRB0043085).
• FIX- Multiple end customers in an SPE platform can now create the same SRS manufacturer filters (PRB0043083).
• FIX- Input in the description box for agreements will retain its format. (PRB0043084).
• FIX- Web Applications will no longer be editable in SMACC and are now considered globally generated applications (PRB0043077).
• FIX- The 'Most installed computer operating systems (number of computers)' widget on the Snowboard will no longer list some computers twice (PRB0043082).
• FIX- VDI's will not calculate an extra Virtual desktop access requirement for itself. (PRB0043086).
• FIX- Compliance exclusions are now also considering the hosts in the datacenter. (PRB0043013).

9.6.0 (2020-02-12)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.6.0 here

• NEW- Diagnostic data for future product improvement.
• ENHANCEMENT-Various improvements for Office 365.
• ENHANCEMENT-Various improvements for AdobeCC
• ENHANCEMENT-Improved performance of software recognition during Data Update Job
• ENHANCEMENT-Performance improvement of Virtualization service
• ENHANCEMENT-Oracle license auto-assignment update
• ENHANCEMENT-Cost management support for multiple metrics
• ENHANCEMENT-All reports - Horizontal scrollbar moved
• ENHANCEMENT-Powered-off VMs excluded from compliance calculations if they have been turned off more than 90 days
• ENHANCEMENT-Ability to report on software full version in SLM
• ENHANCEMENT-Allow users to change default metric without deleting metrics
• ENHANCEMENT-Covered by other metrics popup contains more granular information
• ENHANCEMENT-Apply remarks on tabs based on the selected metric.
• FIX-Navigating to the SaaS overview page in large environments will no longer time out (PRB0042496).
• FIX-The report IBM compliance t is updated with the correct report criteria Metric (PRB0042836)
• FIX-The Help section links in both Snow License Manager and Snow Management and Configuration Center have been updated to point to the latest version of each KB article (PRB0042592).
• FIX-Machines without processor information are not filtered out from the allocate license list. (PRB0042819)
• FIX-Report – small improvements. The application per computer and application per user and computer reports have been limited to twenty computers if no criteria are set on the Web. The limitation does not apply for scheduled reports. (PRB0042828).
• FIX-The All virtual servers report now shows the correct number of virtual cores (PRB0042818).
• FIX-LastExecutionTime in the Snow License Manager API has been updated to now display the most recent run time of the Data Update Job (PRB0042823).
• FIX-The report criteria Has any value now correctly filters out empty strings (PRB0042677).
• FIX-Special characters like for example "&" are now correctly displayed in the agreement name. (PRB0042689).
• FIX-The All computers report and Search for computers page in Snow License Manager will no longer list a computer twice, when its operating system is recognized by a 'bundle configuration' (PRB0042850).
• FIX-An operating system without a valid link in the GUI will not redirect the users to a 404 page. (PRB0042836).
• FIX-Added validation on XML fields to prohibit invalid entries in the Computer hardware table. (PRB0042829).
• FIX-This update will remove invalid notifications following a table update made in PRB0042471 (PRB0042915).
• FIX-Added validation on XML fields to prohibit invalid entries in the Computer History table. (PRB0042947).
• FIX-Users with organization restrictions can no longer see licenses from other organization nodes with the URL (PRB0042984).
• FIX-The JobInventoryComputerHistory step during the Data Update Job will now properly parse quote (") characters in hostnames (PRB0042993).
• FIX-The shortcut to the Administration page on the snowboard will now work again (PRB0042998).
• FIX-Diacritic characters are kept during import (PRB0043000).
• FIX-Report License Compliance Summary does now work with the criteria No Overlicensing alerts and No Underlicensing alerts (PRB0043003).
• FIX-Corrected an compliance crash error that was caused when licenses had been added towards the legacy Core Infrastructure Suite applications (PRB0043023) 
• FIX-Oracle Enterprise Edition Options: Real Application Clusters and Real Application Clusters One Node are now properly excluded from license requirements calculation so that the expected compliance status is generated based on other Oracle product installations and Oracle
• FIX-ntitlements users are now able to assign. (PRB0043019). Note: Currently there is a known issue with the identification of a license requirement for Real Application Clusters and Real Application Clusters One Node on Enterprise Edition databases.
• FIX-Oracle estate overview now shows processor information about IBM PowerVM LPAR virtual machines even if the virtual machine does not have a relation to its host based on the raw data provided by Snow Inventory Agent executed on the virtual machine itself.
• FIX-When using the License Assignment functionality of Oracle Management Option, users were experiencing issues with data grid export, now users are able to export Oracle estate license assignment data.
• FIX-Oracle Database Standard Edition version 12.1.0.2 is now properly recognized as Oracle Database Standard Edition 2.

9.5.1 (2019-12-12)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.5.1 here

• NEW- Visualize product-centric Oracle License Compliance using dashboard
• NEW- Automatic dynamic license assignment (phase 1)
• ENHANCEMENT- Improvement of Oracle Management Option background services.
• ENHANCEMENT- Office 365 Architecture Migration.
• ENHANCEMENT- List all computers and List all applications page is removed.
• ENHANCEMENT- Computers without antivirus software installed report.
• ENHANCEMENT- New option to disable encryption of audit log data in Snow License Manager to support compatibility with SIEM software.
• ENHANCEMENT- Snowboard full-width.
• ENHANCEMENT- Include powered off VMs if they turned off less than 90 days.
• ENHANCEMENT- Windows licenses covered by "site" license not excluded.
• ENHANCEMENT- Small improvements in Reports.
• FIX- The link address length has been increased when attaching a document to a license (PRB0042502).
• FIX- When viewing a computer in Snow License Manager, the 'Entitlement state'-popup (with links to purchases and agreement) now works for all covered applications instead of only one (PRB0042692).
• FIX- It is now possible to add Oracle order costs with culture-specific separators (PRB0042624).
• FIX- The compliance summary will now show all installations in the column Total installations even if the installations are accounted for in a bundle (PRB0042576).
• FIX- Password complexity has been updated to match the criteria specified in the user guide (PRB0041649).
• FIX- The compliance tab on applications is now visible again on Internet Explorer 11 (PRB0042560).
• FIX- It is now possible to view saved reports with the name adobe or oracle in them (PRB0042422).
• FIX- Applications with other platforms are now visible in the Available applications field when setting manual downgrade paths (PRB0042562).
• FIX- Activity charts are added to Microsoft Power BI Pro (PRB0042593).
• FIX- Activity charts are added to Microsoft Project Online Premium (PRB0042606).
• FIX- Improved performance of the "Most installed operating system" widget (PRB0042318).
• FIX- Inventoried computer per month widget is not duplicating computers from deleted organization nodes anymore (PRB0042389).
• FIX- The validation of thousand separators for license cost has been rewritten to prevent a validation error during the re-saving of licenses (PRB0042693).
• FIX- The multi-computer delete functionality, which was updated in version 9.4.1 of Snow License Manager, now also updates the action log properly (PRB0042899).
• FIX- Improved the way the office 365 connector communicates with the SLM API endpoint (PRB0043014).
• FIX- The numbers in the Subscription Plans view reflect those in the Users views (PRB0043022).

9.5.0 (2019-11-27)

Snow License Manager version 9.5.0 has been discontinued.

9.4.1 (2019-10-15)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.4.1 here

• ENHANCEMENT- Ability to un-assign Oracle licenses
• ENHANCEMENT- Added "Is multiple metrics" column in column selector on Search for applications page
• ENHANCEMENT- Custom compare value type extended to 100 chars
• ENHANCEMENT- Exclude Hyper-V only hosts by default
• ENHANCEMENT- Provide an ability to include hyper-v only hosts into Windows Server license requirement manually
• FIX- Data Update Job in a Service Provider installation no longer reports an error after a Customer has been removed (PRB0042521).
• FIX- The Data Update Job has been optimized to reduce execution time when transferring Software rows (PRB0042568).
• FIX- The Data Update Job step Refresh Alerts has been optimized (PRB0042572).
• FIX- Empty, duplicated, or 0.0.0.0 IP addresses are not shown in the computer list anymore. (PRB0042570)
• FIX- Quarantine management will now correctly change a computers' state from 'Quarantined' to 'Inactive' when the configured threshold is met(PRB0042541).
• FIX- We have corrected the API to display the compliance trend tab correctly(PRB0042515)
• FIX- When adding a maintenance date while editing a License, the "Today" button will now properly select the current date (PRB0042574)
• FIX- Resolved an issue when a device is used to run remote applications on servers in different organizations (PRB0042463).
• FIX- When Oracle Database 18c is inventoried as part of customer's Oracle estate, some customers may be experiencing UI issues in the Oracle Database Product instances overview. This latest version properly shows all inventoried Oracle Database 18c instances. (PRB0042520).
• FIX- Some Oracle background processing tasks that need more time for execution on some customer environments will now have the possibility to be reconfigured in order to complete successfully (PRB0042577).
• FIX- Fixed gathering Web metering information (PRB0042086).
• FIX- Resolved a conversion issue, due to specific regional settings, that prevented scheduled reports to be sent properly (PRB0042372).
• FIX- Optimized the API request (PRB0042504)
• FIX- When a user has a different region configured than English (US), adding a maintenance date to a license should no longer show a warning that the data is incorrectly formatted (PRB0042602).
• FIX- A server that has Windows Server as the operating system and hosts virtual machines which have Windows Server installed now is excluded from Windows Server license requirement by default ( PRB0042398)
• FIX- Added "Included in Windows Server license requirement" checkbox on Computer edit page General tab, which is visible only for hosts which have Windows Server OS. When checked, the host Windows Server installation will be counted in compliance Hyper-V only hosts are excluded by default. ( PRB0042398).
• FIX- Fixed handling restricted user access when navigating from "Datacenters and clusters" page to a data center/cluster details page. ( PRB0041897)
• FIX- Displaying "Extended coverage" in "Coverage reason" column in "License tracking per computer" report when computers are covered by extended coverage. ( PRB0041606)
• Fixed an issue where a deactivated CustomerId could prevent the Data Update Job from finishing. (PRB0042609) 
• Improved handling of multi delete computers in Snow License Manager. Users will no longer have to wait for the transaction to complete in the graphical interface. (PRB0042254)

9.4.0 Update #437 (2019-09-25)

Snow License Manager version 9.4.0 has been discontinued.

9.3.3 Update #435 (2019-09-03)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service (Phased rollout).

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.3.3 here

• ENHANCEMENT- Changes to License Tracking Per Computer Report to display more License Data.
• ENHANCEMENT- Bios Serial Number for Mobiles.
• ENHANCEMENT- Files Per Computer Report now shows all executables visible, regardless if recognized or not.
• ENHANCEMENT- The 'Compliance' field name in ‘License Tracking Per Computer’ report has been changed to 'Total Compliance'
• ENHANCEMENT- Microsoft Core Infrastructure Server Suite license coverage
• ENHANCEMENT- New permission for oracle compliance calculation and license assignment
• ENHANCEMENT- Refactor loading data through lightweight read models and in-memory data filtering
• FIX- Added migration script which resets Windows Server application default metric to be standard (by saying "standard" we mean Microsoft licensing rules). To see compliance in different metrics it is now possible to add it as an alternative to the application. 
• FIX- After changing a license from per installation to per computer it will no longer be allocated. (PRB0040651). 
• FIX- All web applications are now searchable on the 'Add license' page. (PRB0042493).
• FIX- Computer application installations reported from an external data source via Snow Integration Manager are now correctly retained after processing data reported by the Snow Inventory agent for the same computer (PRB0042516).
• FIX- Discovery data for customers with multiple data sources are now merged correctly (PRB0042487).
• FIX- Fixed server error on "Search for applications" page which occurred in case of large (>500) amount of organization nodes. (PRB0042382).
• FIX- When calculating the Windows Server license requirement we are now taking "Running" status of a virtual machine into account. (PRB0042391).
• FIX- Resolved an issue where SAP imports would sometimes fail with an exception. (PRB0042497).
• FIX- The "Reported Files" and "Scheduled Reports" links have been moved from context menu under "All reports" view to submenus under the "Reports" menu, making them more accessible to the user. (PRB0042508).
• FIX- The AD user login is now checking the validation dates for the mentioned user updated in SMACC (PRB0042429).
• FIX- The historical log that records the host running each virtual machine is now only updated in case of a change to the relationship between host and virtual machine. (PRB0042418).
• FIX- When the user is configured to use another language than English the list under the Orders & Licenses tab, in the Oracle Overview page, will no longer show an error. (PRB0042495).
• FIX- You can now link a Hyper-V Windows virtual machine to its host based on the data inventoried on the virtual machine itself (PRB0042336, PRB0042391).
• FIX- The report "License purchase allocation" is splitting up the costs of licenses and their support/maintenance costs up to the different assigned organizations. (PRB0041449).

9.3.2 Update #430 (2019-08-13)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service (Canary).

Download release notes for Snow License Manager 9.3.2 here

• FIX- The "Last Discovered Date" field is now properly saved even when software has been removed from a computer (PRB0042392, PRB0042459).
• FIX- The Web Configurator tool is now able to extract hardware identifier on a Japanese operating system (PRB0042455).
• FIX- Column headers should not be HTML encoded anymore (PRB0042357).
• FIX- Correction made to where the EventStore did not create a new password if the password in the database was set to NULL (PRB0042406).
• FIX- When editing a License, under the Maintenance & Support tab, the calendars for maintenance periods have been updated with yearly and monthly dropdown options (PRB0042323).
• FIX- Stock report filtering for Red Hat is using criteria "Red Hat%" However, the customer might have Red Hat Installations called "Linux Red Hat" therefore, the report is NOT showing "All Computers with Red Hat Operating System" This has now been corrected (PRB0042449).
• FIX- Fixed organization criteria in report "Devices per remote server" (PRB0042315).
• FIX- Notifications for expired and expiring licenses now take maintenance periods into account (PRB0042285).
• FIX- Missing translation when exporting instances on the oracle instances page (PRB0042421).
• FIX- The License edit page does now allow the user to past information into the purchase price and quantity column (PRB0042314).
• FIX- Removed redundant options from the notifications criteria (PRB0042471).
• FIX- The import configuration file is incorrectly setting the import type for agreements to "agreement" should be "contract". This has been fixed now (PRB0042474).
• FIX- While removing an overridden bundle you will now be prompted to move any license assigned to the application (PRB0042475).
• FIX- Improved logic of the groups-part of the software recognition step, in the data update job, lowering the overall execution time (PRB0042461).
• FIX- Optimizations have been made to the Device Applications Bundles Update step in the Update Job (PRB0042486).
• FIX- Possible to have Support and Maintenance cost between 0 and 1.
• FIX- Windows Server reports show one row per host if host is covered by multiple licenses.
• FIX- "Has Windows Server VMs" exclusion computer filter works as expected.
• FIX- License assignment tooltip shows the correct information for the Windows server family.
• FIX- Exclusion list can be exported into SLM supported formats.
• FIX- Custom fields assigned to applications are now reassigned to new applications during SRS data transfer (PRB0042358).
• FIX- The API will no longer show an exception page, when trying to list applications in scenarios where blacklisted applications criteria overlap (PRB0042409).
• FIX- 'Programs and Features' now display the correct major version of SLM (PRB0042454).
• FIX- InstalledDate column has been replaced with FirstDiscovered regarding its reliability issues. Customers need to check their existing custom reports and add FirstDiscovered date if necessary. (PRB0042477)

9.3.1 Update #427 (2019-07-09)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.3.1 is found here

• NEW - Remark added for virtual machines which are licensed by host: Virtual machines licensed by host now have the remark as 'LH' and its tooltip displays 'Virtual machine is licensed by the host'.
• NEW - Added new criterion in Compliance Exclusions: To simplify creation of the exclusion for "Hyper-V only" hosts added "Has Windows Server VMs" criterion in Computers automatic filter in Compliance Exclusions.FIX - 
• FIX - Corrected Windows Server license compliance calculation when the license is assigned to a datacentre (PRB0042396).
• FIX - Corrected Windows Server license compliance calculation when there is a Microsoft Core Infrastructure Server Suite license assigned to a datacenter/host (PRB0042395).
• FIX - Corrected compliance exclusion calculation when excluding a host from Windows Server license requirement.
• FIX - Corrected a defect of Windows Server license requirement calculation related to application cost. Now the host which requires a Windows Server license has a requirement set even if Windows Server application costs are not entered.
• FIX - Software Recognition rules are now verified against all software inventoried in the estate, instead of against the newly discovered software only, to prevent application installations from disappearing (PRB0042405).

9.3.0 Update #426 (2019-06-27)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.3.0 is found here

• NEW - Allow users to add additional metrics to an application:Customers of all sizes often license parts of their estate differently depending on what the purpose of the software is and what licensing model that is offered by the vendor is most cost effective. This is particularly important for products related to the datacenter, as these can typically be licensed in several different ways. Multiple licensing models on the same application have been made available by allowing the user to add more than one metric per application, allowing creation of licenses with those metrics and adding support in compliance to calculate coverage across such metrics.
• NEW - Oracle order/order product custom field:Two additional custom fields categories: Oracle order and Oracle order product category are provided for oracle order management. This custom field categories can be used within manual creation of an Oracle order and Oracle order products, as well as while importing Oracle entitlements through uploading a document. Oracle order and Oracle order products details overview and edit functionalities are also extended to include newly added Oracle custom fields’ categories.
• NEW - Product-centric Oracle Compliance calculation and Report:Oracle products compliance status is visualized as part of the stock report "Oracle Product Compliance". This report should enable customers to identify whether each Oracle product inventoried as part of their Oracle estate is Compliant, Not Compliant, or Over Compliant.
• NEW - Custom Fields in Exclusions: Added custom fields as available criteria of applications or computers dynamic filter in Compliance exclusion edit page.
• NEW - Enable sorting in License assignment tab:Added ability to sort and search in License assignment tab for computer/datacenter assignment type while adding/editing a license.
• NEW - Create a "placeholder" insight which is displayed when no other insights:Added information to the Adobe Creative Cloud page which tells the user if the best potential spend is achieved.
• NEW - Make all buttons/links on Adobe CC page clickable with Enter key:Added keyboard support to the Adobe Creative Cloud Overview page.
• NEW - Added new criterion in Compliance Exclusions:To simplify creation of the exclusion for "Hyper-V only" hosts, added "Has Windows Server VMs" criteria in Computers automatic filter in Compliance Exclusions
• NEW - API bulk endpoint for SIM :An internal API endpoint is implemented to support future SIM functionality for ITSM.
• NEW - Oracle recalculate Compliance:This version of Snow License Manager enables the users to manually start Oracle recalculate compliance by clicking the Oracle recalculate compliance button in the context menu. When clicking this button, compliance is being recalculated in the background only for the Oracle estate. The user is being notified in real time when the compliance recalculation starts, while it is active, as well as when it successfully finishes. Recalculation will update both Oracle estate item centric and Oracle product centric compliance state.
• NEW - New 2.0 version of Oracle OSW stock reports:As addition to existing stock reports Oracle Server Worksheet (OSW) and Oracle Server Worksheet (OSW) for WebLogic Server, new extended Oracle Server Worksheet (OSW) 2.0 and Oracle Server Worksheet (OSW) for WebLogic Server 2.0 were additionally added. These 2.0 reports are enhanced based on latest version of official Oracle OSW data structure, as well as extended to include information about Oracle order licenses assigned to Oracle products by using latest License assignment functionality.
• NEW - Datacenter information pane in License assignment functionality has additional information:When a user is assigning licenses to datacenter/cluster by using License assignment functionality, the lefthand side Datacenter Information pane is additionally extended with overview of datacenter/cluster hosts information relevant for the licensing requirements and assignment. With this overview, end user has higher level of datacenter/cluster and its hosts licensing relevant data visibility.
• FIX - Added support for over assignment of licenses in Adobe Creative Cloud.
• FIX - Added a new insight in Adobe Creative Cloud which is displayed when there are unidentified Adobe CC subscription plans.
• FIX - When using License Assignment functionality, filter criteria applied to Oracle Database Options and Management Packs were improved to more closely align with official Oracle Licensing policy.
• FIX - When using Oracle order import functionality, some customers may be experiencing issues with folder permissions used to temporarily store uploaded document containing Oracle entitlements, so that now folder permissions are automatically checked and applied if needed.

9.2.2 Update #422 (2019-06-13)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.2.2 is found here

• FIX - Filtering parameters in the following reports Applications per Computer, License compliance Summary per Organisation, Discovered Assets that are not inventoried, and License compliance summary have been fixed.
• FIX - Totals in the License Compliance Summary report are now correct when the report is filtered. Totals now show the amounts related to filtering not the total of the unfiltered report.
• FIX -Support for the new version of the SAM Automation Book, which will be included in the upcoming release of Snow Automation Platform has been included.
• FIX -License requirement and compliance can now be calculated for Oracle estates with logical partitions (LPARs) without requiring association with IBM AIX hosts
• FIX -Additional error-handling has been added to Snow Management and Configuration Center to prevent checksum errors when browsing application definitions.
• FIX - Issues related to license capping preventing operating system data being replicated correctly during Data Update Job have been resolved so that the data is now transferred between the Snow Inventory and Snow License Manager databases.
• FIX - Web-application metering rules are no longer duplicated by Data Update Job.
• FIX - Computer hardware information report can now be exported to xls/xlsx formats.
• FIX - Additional error-handling has been implemented to prompt users to resave a license when viewing a license for which the user (for licenses based on user) or computer (for licenses based on installation) has been deleted.
• FIX - Language support has now been included in the creating and editing system users capability in Snow Management and Configuration Center. Snow License Manager interfaces currently support the following languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, and Russian.

9.2.1 Update #414 (2019-05-16)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.2.1 is found here

• NEW - The data relating to servers on the Computer types chart widget and the underlying data view of this widget has been made more granular. Data is now split into servers (representing physical servers) and virtual servers. This change has also been made to the Computers per type widget on the Computers Overview page. 
• NEW - Out-of-memory errors no longer occur when exporting large datasets to Excel. When the maximum number of rows for a single Excel sheet have been filled with export data, Snow License Manager will continue writing data to a new sheet, and so on until all data rows have been successfully exported (PRB0042269).
• FIX - When adding or editing roles in Snow Management and Configuration Center, it is no longer possible to select Access to the License Manager Web API and Access to the License Manager Web application, as these roles are designed to be used separately (PRB0042272).
• FIX - It is no longer possible to delete a currency that is being used/active in Snow License Manager. To avoid accidental removal of active currencies, they are now grayed out/not selectable in Snow Management and Configuration Center (PRB0042277).
• FIX - Server errors related to unsupported OS types no longer occur when trying to export the data underlying the Platform summary widget to an Excel file. The data now exports correctly to an Excel file (PRB0042271).
• FIX - Support for custom field names starting with a digit has been enhanced so that the Search for computers function no longer raises an internal server error (PRB0042276).
• FIX - On the Application details page in scenarios where no purchase price has been entered for the connected license, the value shown in the Risk row is now calculated based on Application cost per installation (PRB0042274).
• FIX - Total and Quantity data is now correctly displayed in exported reports (PRB0042198).
• FIX - It is now possible to paste content into custom fields of decimal number type (PRB0042279).
• FIX - The Named computer column has been removed from List all licenses view because this field is no longer populated with data. This column is still available in other views and reports, but will be removed completely in future releases of Snow License Manager (PRB0042275).
• FIX - For customers using the German language setting, email notifications are now correctly spelled as Nutzerlizenz (PRB0042280).
• FIX - Copying an application in Snow Management and Configuration Center now correctly transfers all data, so that if the setting Include virtual versions of matching applications attribute is checked in the original application it will also now be checked in the copy (PRB0042281).
• FIX - Editing a computer with virtual packages assigned to it, no longer causes Snow License Manager to raise The page could not be found! errors (PRB0042282).
• FIX - In Snow License Manager 9.1, the Data Update Job mistakenly ignored the auto-connect rule step, causing computers and devices to be incorrectly attached to the root organization. This issue has been rectified so that Data Update Job carries out the auto-connect step and computers and devices are attached to the correct organizational unit (PRB0042263).
• FIX - It is no longer possible to edit software-recognition rules created for globally generated applications in Snow Management and Configuration Center (PRB0042200).
• FIX - The Web Configurator no longer requires a user to log on with sysadmin rights to update the connection password (PRB0042266).
• FIX - If the View Usernames setting in Snow Management and Configuration Center is disabled, the primary user on a computer and their email address are now correctly anonymized in views and reports (PRB0042250).
• FIX - The user activity charts for cloud applications Microsoft Project Online Professional and Skype for Business PSTN Conferencing are now displaying data (PRB0042211).
• FIX - The Page could not be found! errors no longer arise when selecting application family for a license with no installations (PRB0042259).
• FIX - Some language tweaks were implemented in snowboard alerts in the French version of Snow License Manager (PRB0042308).
• FIX - Additional error-handling and logging have been implemented to manage the Sequence contains no matching element error caused by duplicate source data in the Office 365 service (PRB0042290).
• FIX - Windows Server Assessment reports and remarks of license tracking tab in application detail page now display correctly (PRB0042329).
• FIX - The Discovered assets that are not inventoried report now displays correctly with filters.
• FIX - VMware virtual machines inventoried by the Snow Integration Manager VMware Connector and computers inventoried by Snow Inventory Agents now match.
• FIX - Information about IBM AIX LPAR virtual machines now display correctly.
• FIX - Additional error-handling has been implemented to manage scenarios where data related to inventoried hardware computers or end-of-support dates is missing. Accessing Oracle databases in such scenarios no longer causes the An error occurred on the page! error to arise (PRB0042255).
• FIX - Improved deployment process related to Oracle Middleware products preconfigured metadata. 
• FIX - Improved infrastructure and data validation errors handling within Oracle Orders Import wizard.
• FIX - Oracle products have been updated to align with the official Oracle catalog.
• FIX - User interface issues related to using Oracle Management Option with Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 have been resolved.

9.2.0 Update #410 (2019-04-24)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.2 is found here

• NEW - Advanced optimization for Adobe Creative Cloud

• NEW - Licensing based on cost for Windows Server

• NEW - True-up and order support for Windows Server

• NEW - Automatic population of DRS and High availability for VMware vSphere 

• NEW - Cost optimization for Windows Server 

• NEW - Dynamic compliance exclusions

• NEW - New reports 

  • Devices/Computers per user

  • Applications per computer and user 

  • Files per computer

• NEW - Import Oracle licenses

• NEW - Improved license assignment (Oracle).

• NEW - Initial support for IBM hard-partitioned environments 

• NEW - Initial support for soft-partitioned environments

• NEW - Oracle compliance calculation

• NEW - Powerful search with filters and save 

• NEW - Additional status for Oracle Middleware 

• NEW - Batched data fetch: Snow License Manager now fetches data about Oracle Middleware from Snow Inventory Server in batches instead of collecting all the data for the customer site in one go. Customers with large sites should experience performance improvements.

• NEW - Environment overview of discovered computers:This widget on the Oracle overview page now shows just the computers that have specifically been inventoried for Oracle instances. The graph no longer includes data about discovered and inventoried computers and instead provides useful insight by highlighting computers where an Oracle database might be deployed.

• NEW - Recommendation and report removed: The Devices that can run Oracle software recommendation has been removed from Oracle Overview page as has the report with the same name.

• NEW - Middleware data deletion: When a computer is deleted, any Oracle Middleware data related to that computer is now also deleted.

• FIX Oracle - When viewing a favorited Oracle database that has been deleted, the user will see an empty database screen with data fields populated with (n/a) indicating that the information about the database is no longer available.

• FIX Oracle - The Save and Cancel buttons now display correctly on the pop-up window when editing scheduled Oracle reports.

• FIX Oracle - Selecting an Oracle order listed under an Oracle agreement now navigates correctly to the Oracle order page.

• FIX Oracle - The counts for servers and databases shown in the Last 4 weeks column in the Oracle product view are now correct.

• FIX Oracle - To improve the user experience in terms of information displayed, the Server column has been removed from the data grid of the Databases tab.

• FIX Oracle - Size of the breadcrumb text has been corrected to align with the standard for Snow License Manager.

Product dependencies

• Advanced optimization for Adobe Creative Cloud requires Snow Integration Manager (SIM) 5.15 or higher and a correctly configured Adobe Creative Cloud connector to extract the necessary data points from the Adobe Portal.
• Automatic population of DRS and High availability for VMware vSphere requires Snow Integration Manager version 5.14 or higher and a correctly configured VMware vSphere connector.
• Oracle Management Option requires Snow Inventory Server 6.0.5 or higher.

9.1.0 Update #404 (2019-03-28)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service.

• Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.1 is found here
• NEW -  24/7 availability of the web user interface for all users. With this release, login restrictions have been removed, users will no longer be locked out, and they will no longer be presented with the data maintenance screen but with the log on screen. 
• NEW - The temporary access restriction, which upholds data integrity has not yet been applied to customer-created job steps (stored procedures). Consequently, data integrity of the Snow License Manager database cannot be guaranteed during the execution of customized steps.
• NEW - The runtime of the Data Update Job now correctly records runs that exceed 24 hours. (PRB0042178).
• NEW - Data normalization of IP addresses has been improved to manage multiple IP addresses reported for the same virtual machine. (PRB0042174).
• NEW - Three bulk endpoints have been added to Snow License Manager to support the exposure of additional data for ITSM integrations with ServiceNow and BMC Remedyforce. The additional data includes: organization hierarchy, application type hierarchy, and application type assignments.
• Corrections released in Snow License Manager versions 8.3.5–8.3.7 are now included in Snow License Manager 9.1.0.
• FIX - Cyrillic is now supported in the naming of Snowboards (PRB0042136).
• FIX - It is now possible to configure the location for SoftwareEnterpriseAgreementService by editing the config file for the service and adding an appropriate pathname (PRB0042135).
• FIX - Additional error handling prevents the graphical interface overflow error from occurring in Snow Management and Configuration Center when trying to Preview a newly-created software recognition rule. In preference to error-prone manual processes, we recommend our automated Software Recognition Service as best practice for the creation of softwarerecognition rules (PRB0042137).
• FIX - Extra error management to handle SAP-supported zero date formats (0000-00-00 and 0) has been added to the SAP import feature (PRB0042140).
• FIX - The dashboard widgets Most installed computer operating systems (number of computers) and Most installed mobile operating systems (number of devices) are now labeled correctly in the Swedish language version (PRB0042169).
• FIX - An issue introduced in Snow License Manager 8.3.5 relating to the disappearance of the listof whitelisted applications has been rectified so that the list persists following the DataUpdate Job run (PRB0042161).
• FIX - Import of SAP data now updates the import reference ID correctly, ensuring that SAP datashows correctly (PRB0042141).
• FIX - The forgotten password functionality has been made more robust to protect against bruteforce attacks. Following three failed attempts, users will be locked out for 15 minutes (PRB0042143).
• An additional core factor definition has been added to support 2-core Celeron processors (PRB0042110).
• FIX - It is possible for an application with metering based on installations can show usage data without an instance of the application installed. This scenario arises, for example, when users uninstall an application when they are finished using it, but their usage data remains in the history information. Snow License Manager refers to these scenarios as metering only. Metering-only is now supported for application groups and bundles (PRB0042162).
• FIX - The Device Applications Group Update step in the Data Update Job has been optimized to limit usage of temporary disk space to help prevent performance issues that arise when disks reach their capacity limits (PRB0042165).
• FIX - The edit view for applications no longer incorrectly lists mainframe applications as running on Windows (PRB0042167).
• FIX - It is now possible to apply Agreements with Auto attach computers enabled to more than one organizational unit (PRB0042166).

9.0.1 Update #401 (2019-02-05)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service and setup package. Setup package for version 9.0.1 includes version 9.0.0

• Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.0.1 is found here

• NEW - Additional compatibility measures have been added to the Data Update Job to ensure that processing of data extracted from databases with different collations no longer cause: collation errors; the Data Update Job to stop; or any issues with the Inventory service

9.0.0 NEW VERSION #396 (2018-11-22)

Distribution method: Snow Update Service

• Complete release notes for Snow License Manager 9.0.0 is found here

• NEW - Tracking of license model changes

• NEW - Manual exclusion of computers from compliance calculation

• NEW - Hypervisor technology and high availability for datacenters and clusters

• NEW - Cost-assessment reports for Microsoft Windows Server

• NEW - Incremental data maintenance

• NEW - Direct access to user guides

• NEW - Discovery for Google Cloud Compute Engine

• NEW - Edit Oracle database data

• NEW - License requirement for Oracle databases

• NEW - Lifetime support details for Oracle databases

• NEW - Oracle WebLogic Server discovery and inventory

• NEW - Track changes in Oracle database estate

• NEW - Automatic population of environment column in Oracle Server Worksheet

• NEW - Comma-separated IP addresses

• NEW - To improve readability, multiple IP addresses are now separated by a comma for the functions Search for computers and List all all computers.

• NEW - Default setting for user-based licensing

• NEW - Upholding security mechanisms

• NEW - Additional user input sanitization and encoding routines have been introduced to uphold protection from cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

• FIX - Upgrade licenses can now be added with a different metric than the base license. The license metric of the base license remains unchanged (PRB0040512).

• FIX - Custom Compare Value can now be selected as metric type for cloud applications (PRB0041889).

• FIX - The Microsoft Office365 service can now handle duplicate data without raising a violation of primary key constraint error (PRB0041782).

• FIX - Snow has replaced the capability to contact our Support through an e-mail form, with a direct link to through our Support portal https://www.snowsoftware.com/support. Selecting SUPPORT under the Help menu now opens the portal in new browser tab (PRB0041932).

• FIX - When searching for licenses, it is now possible to select Downgrade rights as a column, to show this information in the search results. The data is consistent with results gained by selecting List all licenses and in the All licenses report (PRB0041930).

• FIX - Column headers reflect the language selected for the user interface when viewing saved reports (PRB0041073).

• FIX - Deleted computers are now included in the data displayed in the Inventoried computers per month widget, and the numbers shown in the New Inventoried and Previously Inventoried counts are now correct. Fix applies for users with access to the root organization node (PRB0041830).

• FIX - An application covered by a license with assignment type Site covers all installations of the application across the site. This concept now applies correctly for Site licenses imported to Snow License Manager – previously only one instance of the application was being covered (PRB0041862).

• FIX - Archiving computers functions as expected for all language versions – previously this capability was only working for the English language version (PRB0041867).

• FIX - Daily maintenance task no longer fails for autoconnect rules for devices in organization structure (PRB0041344).

• FIX - All errors encountered during the daily maintenance task are now logged correctly for troubleshooting (PRB0041343).

• FIX - Daily maintenance task no longer fails when null values are present in the database table for Oracle options. Tables in the Snow Inventory database and the target table in Snow License Manager can now accept null values (PRB0041452).

• FIX - When a user is moved within an Organization (manually or by auto-connect rules), the value for Number of users of the application per month shown on the History tab remains unaffected and duplicate users will no longer appear in the Users per month graph (PRB0041442).

• FIX - In the stored procedure JobInventoryComputersUpdate, the length of the ProcessorType column has been increased to prevent data truncation (PRB0041765).

• FIX - To prevent the Event Store from growing indefinitely, a disk-saving maintenance process now starts in the background when the Event Store service starts (PRB0041339).

• FIX - Aliases in the organizational structure are now deleted as expected when the structure is overwritten or imported (PRB0040233).

• FIX - Computers will continue to be recognized as the same entity, even when the hostname changes (PRB0040172).

• FIX - To reduce its runtime, the process to delete quarantined devices has been re-architectured (PRB0041339).

• FIX - Additional input validation has been added to the Snow Management and Configuration Center to ensure that input strings are no longer truncated. As a result, the error related to unpaired quotes in processing of user exclusion lists during the daily maintenance task no longer arises (PRB0041425).

• FIX - Selecting Oracle overview from the Enterprise menu no longer causes the browser to hang (PRB0041900).

• FIX - On the Oracle overview page, the numbers shown for inventoried Oracle computers (green column of the graph) are now correct (PRB0041694).

• FIX - Oracle data is now processed and presented correctly when data is gathered from multiple data sources using the same CID and Snow Inventory database, but with different sitenames (PRB0040852).

• FIX - The length of the Name column for applications in the Snow License Manager database has been increased to match the source information in Snow Inventory, to prevent errors related to the update of Oracle information from occurring during the daily maintenance task (PRB0041802).

• FIX - When a user creates a new Oracle order with Database enterprise management or Enterprise Edition Options selected as the product, runs the All Oracle order report, and then selects an order in the report, the order details open as expected (PRB0041913).

• FIX - Case sensitivity for usernames in Oracle is now supported (PRB0041589).