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Catalog Overview
This section provides information about catalog updates available with every release.
Software Data Harvesting
We are introducing a BigFix Inventory Catalog Enhancement program. The purpose of this program is to provide BigFix Inventory clients with better discovery capabilities adjusted to software installed on their Windows endpoints.
Scope of the Harvesting tool

Catalog Overview
This section provides information about catalog updates available with every release.
- What's new in this Catalog release
  BigFix Inventory provides new features and enhancements that facilitate your work with the application. For more information, follow BigFix Forum - Inventory (Release Announcements).
- Catalog End-of-Support data schedule
  Learn about the catalog end-of-support data schedule about the publishers.
- Software Data Harvesting
  We are introducing a BigFix Inventory Catalog Enhancement program. The purpose of this program is to provide BigFix Inventory clients with better discovery capabilities adjusted to software installed on their Windows endpoints.

Scope of the Harvesting tool

The scope of this tool is limited to collecting data from:

Windows start menu, desktop shortcuts, pinned applications
Task Manager
Windows services
Uninstall registry (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
Executables pointed by the above data or found in the same folders
License or readme files found in the same folders

The tool does not collect personal data or usage statistics of the applications or users.