December 2023 release notes
x360Recover 12.5.0 - December 2023 [Click to expand...]
| x360Recover Agent Release Information | |
| Version: | 12.5.0 |
| Release Date(s): | TBD |
Release overview
x360Recover 12.5.0 is a feature release. The focus of this release is to improve the user experience by delivering requested feature enhancements and eliminating bugs.
Summary of new features
- Retention Policy Manager is available, allowing you to create one or more retention policy configurations that can be set as a default or applied to protected systems individually
- ZFS ZSTD compression is now supported1
- LZ4 compression is now deprecated
- The Smart Recovery option is selected by default in the UI
- Fully-integrated shared P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) library is included with Virtual Office
- Paused and missed backup jobs are now reported to Recover Manager
1 Because ZSTD-3 compression offers 8-12% better compression than LZ4, the LZ4 compression method has been deprecated with this release. Existing storage pools will be reconfigured to use ZSTD-3 on all future snapshots, resulting in better storage utilization, reduced replication bandwidth, and less cloud storage consumption over time. Existing storage pools using GZip-4 compression are not affected.
Summary of security updates
- Pinned versions of Python modules to prevent conflicts with Python3 dependencies
- Resolved critical and high security issues due to vulnerable package dependencies
Summary of bug fixes
- Fixed virtualization of protected systems with boot and Windows on different disks
- Fixed virtualization of protected systems with Windows located in a non-standard path
- Fixed recording of missed backup jobs on vaults being assigned to ‘admin’ user
- Fixed issue where mounting D2C Linux protected systems might fail with an error
- Fixed UI issue when creating or expanding a storage pool using RAID6
- Fixed issue with outdated boot loader files on installation ISO
- Fixed issue where the device might begin an update while provisioning is running
- Fixed JavaScript errors when starting VNC Terminal
- Fixed issues to allow enabling and disabling VirtIO on subsequent Live Mode virtualization attempts
- Fixed UI issue where invalid cached values might be retained when editing backup schedules
- Fixed issue where manually running a backup using ‘Start Now’ outside of schedule hours paused the backup.
- Fixed issue where network settings are incorrectly hidden on self-hosted GMP hosts
- Fixed issue with incremental recovery where the last snapshot might not be recovered if a backup is in progress when starting the final pass
Retention Policy Manager is now available. Existing storage pools will be reconfigured to use ZSTD-3 on all future snapshots and LZ4 compression is now deprecated
x360Recover Agent 2.40 - Dec 2023 [Click to expand...]
| x360Recover Agent Release Information | |
| Agent version: | v2.40 |
| Release Date(s): | Targeted release starting December 6, 2023 |
Release overview
x360Recover agent 2.40 is a maintenance release. The focus of this release is to address bugs found during support escalations, make improvements to x360Recover D2C Local Cache compaction, and to fix several edge cases with virtualization and Smart Recovery
Summary of enhancements
- Improved Local Cache compaction and data pruning to significantly reduce storage size
- Automated detection and configuration for virtualizing when boot volume is after Windows volume
- Support virtualization with boot volume is alone on its own volume
- Detect default system language and forward to server
- Support Zstd compression for data transfer
- Report correct Windows volume size for cases where Windows volume is not first on disk
Summary of bug fixes
- Fixed issue when virtualizing when boot volume is located after Windows volume on the disk
- Fixed issue where agent may hang if VSS process gets stuck, added maximum timeout limit waiting for VSS
- Fixed agent crash issue when reading filesystem attributes returns invalid data
- Fixed issue with missing regtrans-ms and bllf files in backup that may cause system to be unstable when virtualizing a system with pending Windows updates
- Fixed agent crash issue when VSS pSnapshotVector returns empty value
- Fixed issue with Local Cache verification where EFI boot partition is on a different disk than Windows
- Fixed issue with Windows Server 2019 unable to virtualize using Smart Recover if EFI boot volume is on a different disk than Windows
- Fixed bug sending Windows volume if starting a full backup while the Appliance is down
- Fixed bug with Local Cache Trimming where trimming would be blocked when Local Cache storage volume is full
- Fixed issue with incorrect Windows version being sent to Appliance for Windows 11 systems
This release includes improvements in Local Cache compaction and Smart Recovery Virtualization, as well as various bug fixes