February 5, 2026 - Placeholder $PROVIDED has been replaced by an empty string value in the software repository

Context


Change Type: Feature
Product area: Device management & connectivity
Component: Device Management app
Deployed at: eu.latest.cumulocity.com, apj.cumulocity.com, jp.cumulocity.com, cumulocity.com, us.cumulocity.com, emea.cumulocity.com

Technical details

Build artifact: ui-c8y (1023.19.0)
Internal ID: DM-5037

Description


When creating a software item, users can define a device as responsible for providing the software artifacts, rather than uploading a binary or pointing to it via a URL. In this case, the created software object used to have $PROVIDED as a placeholder value for the software url property in the inventory. With this change, an empty string value will be stored instead. Existing software items in the inventory remain unchanged.