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18.11.0 ‘Ceres’ released

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Changes compared to 18.9.9

New Features

  • Optional columns for current Protected Item and Storage Vault size on the Users page in the Comet Server web interface

Enhancements

  • Always exclude /dev/ directory on Linux and macOS

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with not retrying on some network errors to S3 and S3-compatible storage
  • Fix an issue with "null" when adding or editing email addresses for a user in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with extra outlines when switching tabs on the user page in the Comet Server web interface in Firefox
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with overflowing field lines when editing Schedule settings in the Comet Server web interface in Firefox

Changes compared to 18.8.7

New Features

  • Support FIDO U2F keys for two-factor login to the Comet Server web interface as administrator
  • New custom email report system
  • Support scheduled email reports for customers
  • Support configuring default email reports via Policy
  • Custom job search queries in the Comet Server web interface
  • Policy option to prevent users enabling/disabling the "Allow administrator to reset password" option
  • Option to disable sending scheduled email reports
  • Optional columns for current Protected Item and Storage Vault size on the Users page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Allow uploading branding files directly in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
  • Allow browsing snapshots for restore in the Comet Server web interface
  • Allow defining a job filter for email reports
  • Allow defining multiple email reports per recipient email address in a single user account
  • Allow editing existing Mandatory Exclusions in policies in the Comet Server web interface
  • Allow administrators to change their own security settings, passwords, and U2F registrations on the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Diagnostic option to separate devices that were incorrectly identified as the same on Windows
  • Display email queue length and success/failure statistics on the About this Server page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Add optional "simple" mode to Comet Server stats API endpoint, to coalesce some redundant data points

Enhancements

  • Support importing schedule names from Ahsay v6
  • Support SQLNCLI11 provider to connect to Microsoft SQL Server instances
  • Support MSOLEDBSQL provider to connect to Microsoft SQL Server instances mandating TLS 1.2
  • Allow selecting multiple files in the "Add single file" dialog for "Files and Folders" Protected Items in Comet Backup
  • Allow searching jobs by duration, time since started
  • Allow editing existing email addresses in the Comet Server web interface
  • Allow maximising the restore dialog window in Comet Backup
  • Minor performance improvement for loading the Comet Server web interface
  • Improve performance for locating data within Spanned backends
  • Improve performance of loading the dashboard homepage in the Comet Server web interface
  • Improve performance and reduce memory usage for saving index files into Storage Vaults, particularly during retention passes
  • Improve performance of loading the Protected Item editor, Storage Vault editor, and Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
  • Improve performance of starting Storage Vault operations in Comet Backup
  • Improve performance of reusing existing tree objects in repository and of managing temporary pack files
  • Improve performance of loading the "Select files" screen in Comet Backup
  • Reduce memory usage required for compressing large index files
  • Reduce memory usage needed for email reports
  • Reduce memory usage needed to construct backup job report emails
  • Reduce memory usage needed to load index files, construct file and directory trees during backup
  • Reduce memory usage needed to browse files for restore in Comet Backup
  • Change the default Requestable Destination name to "Storage provided by (your company name)"
  • Cosmetic unify the Setup Wizard, Protected Item editor design in the Comet Server web interface
  • Cosmetic redesign the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Cosmetic redesign the web-based restore dialog to more closely match the Comet Backup app
  • Cosmetic add text label to column-selection button in the Comet Server web interface
  • Cosmetic redesign email security options in the Comet Server Setup Wizard to match more common Outlook/Thunderbird option values
  • Cosmetic display measurement timestamps, refresh progress for bucket sizes in the Comet Server web interface
  • Cosmetic remove TOTP box on login form (TOTP will be prompted if required)
  • Cosmetic simplify the job query filter interface
  • Support additional fallback methods for finding Exchange Server install directory
  • Improve SFTP server compatibility
  • Default to showing the most recent page of server logs in the Comet Server web interface
  • Show fractional quota bars in the Storage Vault table in the Comet Server web interface
  • Use newer Qt library on Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 and later. The Comet installer includes both versions and will choose automatically.
  • Show tray icon at all times, even when Comet Backup is not logged in or only running in the background (app locked)
  • Unify Comet Backup login credentials across all OS user accounts
  • Add plain-text URL as extra information to AdminAccountRegenerateTotp API
  • Record the name of your token hardware when registering U2F tokens in the Comet Server web interface
  • Display icons for Protected Items and Storage Vaults in the job filter bar in Comet Backup
  • Reduce CPU usage when calculating data chunk positions
  • Hide Comet Server web interface from search engines
  • Always exclude /dev/ directory on Linux and macOS