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18.3.5 ‘Voyager’ released

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Changes compared to 18.3.4 and 18.2.4

  • Comet Server now always keeps a minimum of 10 days' of job history

New Features

  • Support cancelling a running job from the Comet Server web interface
  • Support Hyper-V backup on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, where Hyper-V module for Powershell is unavailable
  • Automatically clean up old "In Progress" job records that are no longer running

Enhancements

  • Improve speed of installing Comet Server (remove locales requirement on Debian/Ubuntu; trim NSIS size on Windows)
  • Improve message guidance when Comet Server does not start owing to a bad license
  • Improve responsiveness of cancelling a backup job going to a Comet Server destination
  • Hide news header in Comet Backup main screen if no news is present

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with "hex.DecodeString" error messages if there are unexpected files inside the Storage Vault in the Snapshot directory
  • Fix an issue with terminating Comet Server as if for a bad license, when renewing the license was only advisory
  • Fix an issue with job status for update backup jobs if the update installer fails to terminate the existing process
  • Fix an issue with not warning in job reports when Comet fails to construct a virtual path structure and falls back to lost+found directories
  • Fix an issue with "not found" error messages when manually creating buckets in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix an issue with not considering all possible URLs for the local Comet Server when attached to Constellation as "Local"
  • Fix an issue with not handling cancellation in Comet Backup if the cancel button was clicked during certain backup phases
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with CP_ACP warnings in Comet Server for Linux when generating branded software installers
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with blank device names in the Devices tab on a user page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with restore job reports
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with hovering on table rows on the User page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with dialog sizing and high DPI screens in the Comet Server Service Manager