Changes compared to 17.3.12
New Features
- Option to hide the News area in Comet Server for rebranded / reseller installations
- Option to override server with an environment variable when installing Comet Backup on Linux
Enhancements
- Improve error message when login is denied owing to Server Role disabled or IP whitelist failure
- Mouse over device names to see device IDs in Comet Server
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue that could prevent logging in to Comet Server if the Auth Role was disabled
- Fix an issue that could allow an unauthenticated remote user to stop the Comet Server process
- Fix an issue with error popups when adding an 'All database items' entry to a Protected Item in Comet Server
- Fix an issue with not saving certain fields when editing Protected Items in Comet Server
- Fix an issue with the Content-Type for error messages returned from non-JSON API endpoints
- Fix an issue with loading the Comet Server web interface on older versions of Internet Explorer
- Fix an issue with installing Comet Backup for Linux on an attached docker container without any login shell
- Fix a cosmetic issue with homepage graphs containing no data in Comet Server
- Fix a cosmetic issue with the first-use message area in Comet Server
- Fix a cosmetic issue with extra "OK" popups when saving user profiles in Comet Server
- Fix a cosmetic issue with the login page of Comet Server under Internet Explorer 11
- Fix a cosmetic issue with the default "Help" page in branded versions of Comet Backup
Changes compared to 17.2.10
- Improve Amazon S3 support
New Features
- Allow sending email reports to customers
- Allow storing Comet Server Storage Role data on cloud and FTP locations
- Support expanding existing disk-based storage in Comet Server to spread over cloud storage
- Support backing up to Azure Blob Storage
- Support backing up to FTP servers
- Support custom subdirectory paths in Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and S3-compatible Storage Vaults
- Support password and external authentication for SFTP Storage Vaults
- Support Comet Server on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, Debian 6, Debian 7 in addition to current Debian 8 support
- Allow cancelling backup operations in progress
- New interface design for Comet Server
- Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Dutch (Nederlands) translation
- Translation support for Comet Server's web interface
- Bundle translation files with Comet Server. Help Comet by supplying translations
- Allow specifying a custom SMTP server for email delivery
- MX Direct for sending email reports without an SMTP server
- Option to allow logged-out users to download Comet Backup from Comet Server
- Allow searching on the Raw Profile editor in Comet Backup
- Embedded web view when using Help inside Comet Backup
- Send branded bulletin emails to all customers
- Span Storage Vault data cross multiple location providers in Comet Backup
- Web interface to restart service in Comet Server
- User policies to restrict Protected Item creation/edit/deletion or using specific types
- New experience for editing Storage Vaults in Comet Server web interface
- Filter tables in Comet Server
- Export tables to clipboard, CSV, XLS in Comet Server
- Display news and update information on the dashboard in Comet Server
- Allow restricting Comet Server administrators by whitelisting IP addresses
- Allow changing Comet Server settings via the web interface
- Add the Setup Wizard into Comet Server web interface
- Option to remove all news items from Comet Server
- Option to re-scan unchanged files (e.g. VeraCrypt containers with 'Preserve Modification Timestamp' enabled)
- Option to specify custom known_hosts file or ignore ssh hostkeys for SFTP connections
- Option to download 32/64-bit only version of Comet Backup, for smaller download size
- Option to hide the News area in Comet Server for rebranded / reseller installations
- Option to override server with an environment variable when installing Comet Backup on Linux
Enhancements
- Explain automatic S3 bucket creation when editing a Storage Vault in Comet Backup
- Hide metadata for in-progress operations from other OS users
- Selection buttons to change between supported customer languages within Comet Server
- Quick access to the client downloads area in Comet Server
- Improve restore performance when a custom file selection is used
- Improve performance of restoring from Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
- Improve performance of backing up large directory structures when many exclude paths are configured
- Improve performance for chunk enumeration on SFTP locations
- Improve performance of software updates, download only win32/win64 package as necessary
- Cosmetic enhancements for Comet Server
- Simplify storage configuration in the Comet Server Service Manager setup wizard
- Expand translation coverage in Comet Server's web interface
- Automatically restart Comet Server in sample systemd unit file for "Linux (other)" platforms
- Self-referential bucket requests intelligently determine external server address
- Display both old and new software versions as part of upgrade log report
- Reduce memory usage for some types of backup and restore operations
- Attempt to apply remaining file attributes during restore even if some permissions are not held
- Add new API properties allowing callers to identify cross-server replication topology
- Add new API property to retrieve software codename
- Faster uninstallation
- New installations of Comet Server listen on all interfaces by default
- Prompt for serial number during .deb package installation
- Improve error message when login is denied owing to Server Role disabled or IP whitelist failure
- Mouse over device names to see device IDs in Comet Server