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21.11.0 ‘Himalia’ released

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Changes compared to 21.8.0

New Features

  • Add three new retention rules. "Last [...] backups, at most once per day", "Last [...] backups, at most once per week", "Last [...] backups, at most once per month"
  • Add timezone to each device, schedules will now honour the device specific timezone instead of the User Profile timezone
  • Allow specifying custom headers to be included with webhook POST requests made by Comet Server (#3104)
  • support restore Disk Image snapshot to physical device in the Comet Server web interface (#2747)
  • Support running Comet Server on Linux ARM64 (#934)
  • Option to hide files instead of deleting them on Backblaze B2, for extra ransomware protection (#2948)
  • Support running backup jobs and retention passes simultaneously (#1480)
  • Support certain new upcoming Wasabi cloud storage regions upon their upcoming availability date (#3190)
  • Add optional 'Registered' column to the Devices table on a User's profile page in the Comet Server web interface (#228)
  • Support custom SSL settings for MySQL Protected Items (#2132)
  • You can now export a zip file with all log files from the Comet Server Web UI (#2485)
  • Allow previewing an Office 365 email from the Comet Server web interface, by double-clicking it in the restore dialog (#3071)
  • New backup-tool login subcommands to check login state and set login credentials on Linux (#3267)
  • Danish translation (#3277)
  • New API endpoints added for listing the Office 365 account resources that are available for backup (#2647)
  • New and improved user interface for the Office365 Protected Item (#2647)
  • Support the granular Office365 service backup (#2647)

Enhancements

  • Translations now include the retention range description text in the Comet Server web interface
  • Improve performance of loading items in the Office365 child dialogs by adding local cache in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Automatically prefer to run retention passes on "high power" devices (#1639)
  • Add optional 'Timezone' column to the Devices table on a User's profile page in the Comet Server web interface (#3130)
  • Improve speed of fallback operations for Office 365 backup jobs (#2345)
  • Improve network transfer performance for all storage locations other than Storage Role, by reducing buffering (Fixes: #746)
  • Mark job as abandoned if remote device cancellation fails to find a matching process (#3162)
  • Improve the accuracy of Files and Directories statistic for the Office365 booster (#3183)
  • Improve performance of restoring multiple files within the same directory (#793)
  • Display a description of a Storage Vault default Retention Policy on hover in the Protected Items settings editor in the Comet Backup desktop app and the Comet Server web interface (#8)
  • Reword the B2 feature to hide files instead of deleting them for better clarity, and add in-client help text (#3161)
  • Rearrange the Actions menu on the User page in the Comet Server web UI to isolate destructive actions (#3189)
  • Improve appearance of Comet Server Service Manager on HiDPI displays (#3169)
  • Improve translations for German on/off text
  • The Comet Server service manager always starts after installation of Comet Server (#3174)
  • Allow usernames shorter than six characters (#3257)
  • Update Thai translation (#3266)
  • Minor performance improvement for the "Use temporary files instead of disk" option (#3266)
  • Try to access Amazon S3 China regions over IPv6 if possible (#3282)
  • Improve performance of Reindex and Deep Verify operations (#3282)
  • Improve performance of Office 365 SharePoint site / OneDrive backup (#2667)
  • Office 365 Backup performance in full and delta backup mode has been improved (#2640)
  • Improve the performance of opening the "Add Protected Item" dialog (#3123)
  • Improve performance of searching the jobs database for a single user account (#3292)
  • Add more detailed message for Office365 graph API error (#3311)

Changes compared to 21.9.12

Enhancements

  • Add more detailed message for Office365 graph API error (#3311)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with the mysqldump binary not being found on some non-windows platforms (#3306)
  • Fix an issue with Office 365 Restore to original account in a new folder (#3326)
  • Fix an issue with restoring mail to an Office 365 Account when the account is in a French, German or Portugese language localization (#3309)
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with Office365 service icons status not falling back to its parent status in some cases in the Comet Backup desktop app (#2647)