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20.9.6 ‘Voyager’ released

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Changes compared to 20.9.5

New Features

  • Prompt for Full Disk Access permission on macOS
  • Support /SHORTCUT=disable command-line parameter and HKLM\Software\backup-tool\Shortcuts registry key, to prevent creating desktop and Start Menu shortcuts when installing Comet Backup on Windows

Enhancements

  • Select Password authentication by default for new SFTP destinations on Windows

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with losing a previously-granted Full Disk Access permission on macOS after a remote software upgrade if codesigning was not used
  • Fix an issue with some error handling cases for OEM recovery partitions during a Disk Image backup job
  • Fix an issue with the /TOKEN= parameter if it was used without the /S switch, by enforcing silent mode
  • Fix an issue with the "Last [...] Backups" Retention policy being limited to 99 in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Fix an issue with adding new Protected Item retention overrides in the Comet Server web interface impacting the actual Storage Vault retention rule
  • Fix an issue with "Invalid function" error messages when browsing partitions for restore after resizing a dynamic partition on an iSCSI LUN
  • Fix an issue with "expected XX bytes" error messages indicating a 2048 - 4096 byte read shortfall in some Disk Image backup job situations
  • Fix an issue with malformed URLs if a trailing slash was not present in the configured Comet Server URL
  • Fix an issue with handling cloud storage branding restrictions inside child span storage dialogs in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Fix an issue with live connections in the Comet Server web interface when logged in as an end-user, affecting backup/restore operations
  • Fix an issue with the "WebHookOptions" being "null" instead of an empty array in the cometd.cfg file if no webhooks have been configured yet
  • Fix an issue with failing to run some steps during installation and uninstallation of Comet Backup for Windows
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with ARM64 devices appearing as ARM32 in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with size mismatch error messages in the Comet Backup desktop app if the sizes are indistinguishable after rounding, by falling back to displaying the exact byte sizes