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18.9.9 ‘Voyager’ released

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Changes compared to 18.9.8

New Features

  • Allow administrators to change their own security settings, passwords, and U2F registrations on the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Support configuring default email reports via Policy
  • Diagnostic option to separate devices that were incorrectly identified as the same on Windows

Enhancements

  • 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
  • Cosmetic redesign the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Record the name of your token hardware when registering U2F tokens in the Comet Server web interface
  • Allow maximising the restore dialog window in Comet Backup
  • 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

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with using U2F login on servers using wildcard SSL certificates
  • Fix an issue with short timeouts for VDI operations in Microsoft SQL Server backups
  • Fix an issue with finding offline devices when clicking the homepage donut widget in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix an issue with missing status/classification options in the job filter bar in Comet Backup
  • Fix an issue with not automatically logging in to Comet Backup for Windows if it was silently installed as a different user account
  • Fix an issue with not restarting the Comet Backup app after disconnecting from a server
  • Fix an issue with unnecessarily popping up the Comet Backup login dialog when logging in to Windows
  • Fix an issue with a white screen when restoring Comet Backup from the system tray on Windows
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with displaying current timezone offset in the wrong direction in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with handling page errors in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with inconsistent job classification descriptions in Comet Server email reports
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with clicking header rows of inline tables in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with resetting user account passwords in the Comet Server web interface