Changes compared to 19.3.13
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with not sending scheduled email reports
- Fix an issue with not detecting a certain type of Storage Vault integrity problem if the Storage Vault had been repaired following manual instructions
- Fix an issue with not cleanly terminating the Comet Server web interface on script failure
- Fix an issue with timezone offsets when configuring "Once Only" schedules in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix an issue with popping up the Comet Backup app interface unexpectedly in some situations
- Fix an issue with job cancellation in some situations
- Fix an issue with reuploading data after a Reindex operation
- Fix a cosmetic issue with not displaying the customer's preferred timezone in "Immediate job report" emails
- Fix a cosmetic issue with unexpected extra Help buttons in the Comet Backup app on Windows when entering text into a popup dialog
- Fix a cosmetic issue with inconsistent font sizes in dropdown options on the user page in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix a cosmetic issue with horizontal overflow when previewing an email report in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix a cosmetic issue with not greying-out buttons if there is no selection when editing retention settings for a Protected Item in the Comet Backup app
- Fix a cosmetic issue with missing progress information during a Reindex operation
Changes compared to 19.2.3
Exclude ".dropbox.cache/placeholder.***" reparse points
Downgrade-incompatible on Linux
Remove manual "Unlock" action from the Comet Backup client interface
New Features
- Support browsing files in job reports in the Comet Server web interface and in the Comet Backup app
- Support selecting files to restore in the Comet Server web interface
- Support excluding single files from Hyper-V backups
- Support LDAP login for administrator accounts
- Support previewing custom email reports in the Comet Server web interface
- Support starting backup jobs from the Comet Server web interface when logged in as an end-user
- Support specifying advanced options when running a custom backup job via the Comet Server web interface
- Support tls-alpn-01 Let's Encrypt challenge, to no longer require port 80 for SSL certificate provisioning
- Support editing Authenticode codesigning settings in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
- RPM package installer for Comet Server
- Display the device's online/offline status in Missed backup job reports
- Option to set MySQL isolation mode
- Option to delete remote user accounts as part of Auth Role replication
- Option to indicate whether the customer has consented to the MSP browsing their files (+ Policy control)
- Add new backup-daemon-start-background helper script in Comet Backup for Linux
- Optimize backup performance if Windows Defender is installed
Enhancements
- Succeed a backup job even if Comet cannot run a retention pass because the Storage Vault is in-use - as long as the cleanup workload is not excessive
- Automatically clean up "Running" jobs that have had their process terminated, at the next backup on the same device
- New design for the Job Search dialog, requiring fewer clicks for common searches
- Automatically select interface language from web browser preferences, when loading the Comet Server web interface for the first time
- Add "Skipped" section to homepage history widget in the Comet Server web interface
- Preserve customised delegate service user account credentials during Comet Backup software upgrades on Windows
- Obfuscate root's stored credentials file in Comet Backup for Linux
- Clean up very old 'running' jobs for deleted user accounts
- Reduce memory usage for all Storage Vault operations
- Improve performance of HTTPS servers by supporting new TLS 1.3 standard
- Improve performance of dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 servers by using RFC 6555 Fast Fallback ("Happy Eyeballs") algorithm
- Improve performance for loading large number of job search results in the Comet Server web interface
- Minor performance improvement for loading large number of server log entries in the Comet Server web interface
- Minor performance improvement for clicking sections of the homepage history widgets in the Comet Server web interface
- Minor reduction in memory usage (x2)
- Include snapshot ID in Comet Server API responses for backup job properties
- Use new simplified terminology for Backblaze B2, effective May 2nd
- Update Portuguese (Europe) translation
- Display an error message when errantly accessing a Comet Server HTTPS endpoint using HTTP protocol
- Display extra statistics about scheduled emailer on the "About this Server" page in the Comet Server web interface
- Display more detailed log messages when Comet Server unexpectedly receives information about stopped jobs