Changes compared to 18.12.6
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Changes compared to 18.11.6
- Change Event IDs used by Comet's service manager process
New Features
- New "Recent Activity" page in the Comet Server web interface
- New "Account Name" field for users
- Option to use legacy V2 signing for S3-compatible storage
- Support EV Authenticode signing via PKCS#11 hardware token in Comet Server
- Policy option to set default retention policy
- Policy options to enforce retention policies in Storage Vaults, and to prevent overriding retention policies in Protected Items
- Portuguese (Europe) translation
- Update Spanish translation
- Option to keep deduplication indexes in on-disk temporary files instead of RAM
- API to allow end-user single sign on to Comet Server web interface
- API to list all available software platforms
- API to download more platform-specific variants of Comet Backup installer, for smaller filesize
- Unbranded registry option for mixing in additional entropy for differentiating device IDs
- Add Last Job column to the Protected Items table in the Comet Server web interface
- Optional new Device ID column on the Connected Devices page
Enhancements
- Unified login for the Comet Server web interface (including login failure logging)
- Show directory sizes in the restore dialog in Comet Backup
- Auto cleanup old Running jobs after a successful software upgrade
- Improve performance for listing backup snapshots in high-latency Storage Vaults
- Improve performance of loading Protected Item history views in Comet Backup by optimising the network request
- Minor performance improvement for browsing Hyper-V VMs
- Minor performance improvement for configuring two-factor authentication settings on Comet Server instances with large numbers of administrator accounts
- Minor reduction in CPU usage when rebuilding indexes
- Minor reduction in memory usage for backup-tool processes
- Reduce peak memory usage when first loading indexes from an existing Storage Vault
- Always use native language for language selection
- Add Storage Vault icons for S3-compatible vaults from Exoscale and Cynnyspace
- Allow entering fractional values in quota fields in the Comet Server web interface
- Faster response for job cancellation
- Display custom icon for S3-Compatible Storage Vaults using Alibaba / Aliyun OSS cloud storage
- Display icons for Storage Vault types in the restore dialog in the Comet Server web interface
- Add "outdated" badges, clickable device actions, and auto-refresh to the Recent Activity page in the Comet Server web interface
- Extend retry behaviour for S3-compatible storage destinations (including Google Cloud Storage)
- Improve retry backoff behaviour for retaking VSS snapshots and for SMB login
- Improve retry behaviour for Exchange EDB metadata operations
- Improve network retry behaviour for Azure storage
- Update French translation
- Portuguese and Spanish language translations fall back to each other instead of English, if possible
- Show current/outdated breakdown when hovering the "Online Devices" column in Comet Server
- Rename all 'ID' columns in the Comet Server web interface, to clarify which ID they refer to