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24.11.0 Dione released

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Dione is the latest entry in our quarterly rollup series. It branches off from our main rolling Voyager development into a fixed target for our partners to qualify and build upon.

Saturn's moon Dione hides a cool secret. It's not just an icy ball. Underneath its thick, frozen crust, scientists believe Dione harbors a subsurface ocean, much like its famous neighbor Enceladus. This hidden ocean makes Dione a surprising contender in the search for extraterrestrial life.

As for the software, Comet 24.11.0 Dione brings 11 new features and 16 enhancements, including Disk Image for Linux, restoring Disk Image backups to Hyper-V VHDX file format, bulk action improvements and more.

As always for a new quarterly release, there are two changelogs for 24.11.0 Dione depending on whether you are coming from the previous quarterly release or the previous Voyager release:

Changes compared to 24.8.2

New Features

  • Added support for Disk Image backups on Linux. The feature supports skipping free filesystem sectors on EXT4 and XFS when used with either LVM2 or a custom kernel driver
  • Add new "Allow read-only files to be overwritten" option to bypass read-only file permissions during restore
  • Allow setting quotas for VMware and Hyper-V guests virtual machines
  • Added support for granular restore of files from Hyper-V checkpoint .avhdx files
  • Added option to copy and paste Comet Server admin interface settings between servers
  • Added support for restoring Disk Image backups as Hyper-V VHDX file format
  • Added support for assigning user policies in bulk in the Comet Server web interface
  • Added Test Connections functionality when using the "Log in to a network share" option in a Files and Folders Protected Item

Enhancements

  • Improved Microsoft 365 incremental backups of Calendars, Contacts, and Messages to be more efficient and faster
  • Improved the error messages displayed when Storage Role to Direct-To-Cloud conversion fails to better explain the failure reasons
  • Added progress updates when a backup performs some long running actions, such as removing unneeded data packs and removing deleted files from an Object Lock Storage Vault
  • Added a popup dialog for authentication validation failures when testing Storage Vault connections in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added an info icon for extra troubleshooting information when testing Storage Vault connections in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added a clickable cross-reference in a job log, if the job's execution was blocked by another task in the same Storage Vault
  • Added support for using the Create Recovery Media feature from Linux
  • Added Protected Item names for jobs from other devices in the activity log on the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added a device name column to the Comet Backup desktop app activity log
  • Updated the user's profile page in the Comet Server web interface to use colored badges to more clearly distinguish online and offline devices
  • Extended support for resuming large network downloads from point of failure when Comet encounters a "Connection closed by foreign host" network error
  • Added the ability to dynamically switch between using domain and workstation details for SMB Storage Vault connections
  • Improved the email filters for "Time since job start" and "Time since job end" to allow configuration by seconds, minutes, hours and days in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Improved the performance of connecting to a Storage Vault at the start of a backup or restore job if the Storage Vault has many other concurrent jobs running
  • Updated super admin policies which have been incorrectly assigned to a tenant will be copied and recreated as tenant owned policies
  • Simplified configuration for VMware Protected Items by allowing direct configuration
  • Added support for MySQL backups on Linux without an installed mysqldump binary
  • Changed the behavior of MySQL backups if no installed mysqldump program could be automatically found
  • Removed the default Comet Server admin account. The admin account will now be created through the Comet Server Service Manager setup wizard or when first opening the Comet Server web interface

Changes compared to 24.9.9

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with Microsoft 365 backup causing excessive memory to be used during backup of email messages