Network Inventory Core release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated June 11, 2026
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    Summary of Network Inventory Core release notes

    The Network Inventory Core application on the ServiceNow Store has evolved through multiple versions, enhancing network inventory management capabilities, data security, and operational reliability. This application supports managing physical and logical network infrastructure, including racks, slots, cards, interfaces, and related data models. The release notes detail improvements, new features, security enhancements, and fixes across versions from August 2022 through June 2026.

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    Key Features

    • Rack and Slot Management: Multi-slot card placement with automatic hiding of occupied slots for faster, more accurate equipment positioning.
    • Slot Span Validation: Ensures correct definition of rack and template slot spans, preventing configuration errors.
    • Smarter Hierarchy Naming: Equipment cards are named based on their model with a fallback to template names, improving clarity in hierarchy trees.
    • Network Interface Enhancements: Additional fields surfaced in Network Interface forms for quicker editing.
    • Expanded Data Models: Inclusion of bearable weight, electric power assignment, cable-to-strand relationships, and support for TMF 639 API for network inventory operations.
    • Integration and Automation: Integration with TNI HAM, TMF-639 patch, and Order Management for Telecommunications and Media, enabling automated change requests and inventory workflows.
    • Security Hardening: Expanded access control list (ACL) coverage, use of secure system- and user-scoped queries, and security-aware record queries to prevent data exposure.
    • Operational Improvements: Dynamic entity resolution for improved query reliability and decommissioning of legacy inventory models to streamline data handling.
    • Support for Templates and Metadata: Data models supporting metadata, templates, and custom naming patterns for slots and interfaces, facilitating efficient network inventory configuration.

    Key Outcomes

    • Improved Inventory Accuracy and Efficiency: Enhanced rack and slot management features reduce manual errors and speed up equipment placement tasks.
    • Stronger Data Security: Hardened access controls and secure queries mitigate risks of unauthorized data access.
    • Better Data Consistency: Validation features and smarter naming conventions ensure clear, reliable inventory data.
    • Expanded Functional Scope: Support for advanced network data models and TMF APIs empowers customers to manage complex network infrastructure comprehensively.
    • Seamless Integration: Compatibility with other ServiceNow modules and external standards simplifies change management and operational workflows.
    • Future-Ready Platform: Removal of deprecated models and adoption of new data structures prepare customers for ongoing innovations in network inventory management.

    Version history for the Network Inventory Core application on the ServiceNow Store.

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    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 6.1.2 - June 2026
    • This release strengthens data center and physical inventory management, hardens platform security, and improves overall reliability.
    • New & Improved Capabilities  - Rack & slot management — Card placement now supports multi-slot cards, and the slot picker automatically hides occupied slots, making it faster and more accurate to  position equipment in racks.  - Slot span validation — Added validation so rack and template slot spans are always correctly defined, preventing incomplete or empty slot-span configurations.  - Smarter hierarchy naming — Cards in the hierarchy tree are now named from their model, with an automatic fallback to the template name when no model name is available,  giving clearer and more consistent naming.  - Network interface form layout — Network Interface and Network Interface Model records now surface additional relevant fields directly in the Network Inventory view for  quicker editing.
    • Security & Reliability  - Expanded access control coverage across core inventory tables to fully support secure query-range operations.  - Hardened data access by enforcing security-aware record queries throughout core logic.  - Replaced broad query handling with system- and user-scoped secure queries to close potential data-exposure gaps.  - Improved query reliability by resolving entities dynamically by table rather than relying on fixed identifiers.
    Version 6.0.1 - March 2026
    This release contains same feature set as before without new or changes.
    Version 5.1.0 - December 2025
    No Changes.
    Version 5.0.0 - August 2025
    CI classes supporting facility classes.
    Version 4.0.1 - February 2025
    No additional changes.
    Version 3.1.1 - November 2024
    • New: Enabled Deny ACL (effective from Yokohama release onwards)
    • Fixed:
      • IRE for TMF 639 API
      • Slot span field applicability conditions
      • Slot/interface naming execution defect with Enterprise product model
    Version 3.0.1 - August 2024
    • New:
      • Data model to capture bearable weight and bearable weight units are added to inventory models
      • Data model to capture assigned electric power is added Equipment Holder class
      • Cable to strand model relationship
      • Cable Template
    • Changed: Inventory models are moved to the Enterprise product model. New installations will have the latest data model while upgrades will have both new and legacy inventory data model
    • Fixed: Interconnect facility for classes which are child to Telco Equipment Class
    • Removed: Deprecated legacy inventory product models
    Version 2.0.0 - February 2024
    • New:
      • Channelization and Strand Management
      • Decommission of CI
      • Revision and opertaionlization of an operational CI
    • Changed: Design and Assign flows
    Version 1.4.7 - January 2024
    • Fixed:
      • Misconfiguration of table/field ACLs within the 'com.app-ni-core' plugin has been resolved
      • "Add Card" use case failure due to the service offering being present has been resolved.
    Version 1.4.2 - September 2023
    Fixes.
    Version 1.4.1 - August 2023
    • New:
      • Enablement of Attribute Pack
      • Number Management
      • TNI HAM Integration
      • TMF-639 Patch
    • Changed: Enable record producer for change.
    • Fixed: Equipment Holder data model change.
    • Removed: Related Party.
    Version 1.3.5 - March 2023
    Fixed: Added additional validations to ensure the cross-impact of TNI Workspace and SOW Workspace.
    Version 1.3.3 - February 2023
    • Changed:
      • Updated business logic to work with a broader network inventory data model.
      • Integrated OMT-TNI to initiate change requests for the order tasks of Order Management for Telecommunications and Media application.
      • Define a catalog of inventory functions and subflows to execute the network inventory design and assign activities via user-defined flows/subflows.
    Version 1.1.1 - August 2022
    • New:
      • Data Model to create and store Metadata, Template and Network Inventory data.
      • Support custom name patterns for Slots and Interfaces
      • Auto creation of Slots and Interface for Equipment and Card Templates based on Model Relationship
      • Support for TMF639- POST, DELETE and GET
      • Support for Template API to create resources and relationships via Template