Changes compared to 18.3.5 and 18.2.5

Enhancements​

• Improve responsiveness of cancelling some types of backup jobs
• Improve webfont loading performance for the Comet Server web interface
• Add tooltips for navigation bar icons in the Comet Server web interface
• Cosmetic toggle extraneous columns in the Comet Server web interface, to better fit mobile devices
• Display an explanation message when failing to take a VSS snapshot of a non-NTFS filesystem
• Improve compatibility with some types of FTP server

Changes compared to 18.2.3

Bug Fixes​

• Fix an issue with Comet Backup crashing when quickly navigating back and forward through the Restore dialog
• Fix an issue with "unelevate.exe" process crashing at the end of the Comet Backup installer, in some multi-user or remote situations
• Fix an issue with "panic" error messages when one location in a Spanned storage configuration is unavailable
• Fix an issue with indeterminate progress bars for restore jobs after selecting individual files and folders for restore in Comet Backup
• Fix a cosmetic issue with "Invalid profile" errors when clicking the Comet Backup dock icon on macOS when Comet Backup is open but still at the login dialog
• Fix a cosmetic issue with multiple loading animations displayed when quickly navigating back and forward through the Restore dialog in Comet Backup

Changes compared to 18.3.4 and 18.2.4

• Comet Server now always keeps a minimum of 10 days' of job history

New Features​

• Support cancelling a running job from the Comet Server web interface
• Support Hyper-V backup on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, where Hyper-V module for Powershell is unavailable
• Automatically clean up old "In Progress" job records that are no longer running

Changes compared to 18.2.2

Enhancements​

• Improve performance of initialising a Storage Vault for the first time in Comet Backup

Changes compared to 18.3.3 and 18.2.3

• Remove the default "Unlimited" quota pie-chart in Comet Backup

New Features​

• Display pie-chart rings for Storage Vault quotas in Comet Backup
• Support "Copy (as cURL)" / "Copy (as wget)" when downloading Comet Backup for Linux
• Support renaming devices in the Comet Server web interface
• Display user account creation time, and allow searching/sorting by user account creation time in the Comet Server web interface
• Display Protected Item sizes on user detail pages in the Comet Server web interface, linking to job that produced the information
• Display IP address of live-connected devices in the Comet Server web interface (column is hidden by default)
• Automatically unlock Storage Vaults when safe to do so

Changes compared to 18.2.1

Bug Fixes​

• Fix an issue that could cause resource starvation and hanging when using Azure Blob Storage as a storage type in Comet Server, by reverting to the 18.2.0 behaviour
• Fix an issue that could cause Comet Backup to crash when contacting an unresponsive Comet Server

Changes compared to 18.3.2

Enhancements​

• Display (always-enabled) compression and deduplication status in Storage Vault property dialogs
• Display number of databases and backup mode in Microsoft SQL Server backup job reports
• Improve performance for loading the Comet Server web interface
• Rename backup types for Microsoft SQL Server, to clarify the behaviour

The 17.11.x "Luna" series is in Extended support only.

Changes compared to 17.11.5, also appearing in 18.2.1

Bug Fixes​

• Fix an important issue that could prevent data from being backed up from UNC paths, if both UNC and drive paths were selected in a Protected Item
• Fix a cosmetic issue with not showing the New Users help area in the Comet Server web interface

Changes compared to 18.2.0

Bug Fixes​

• Fix an important issue that could prevent data from being backed up from UNC paths, if both UNC and drive paths were selected in a Protected Item
• Fix an issue that could cause high system resource usage when backing up to an SFTP or Azure Blob Storage destination
• Fix an issue with the Comet Server web interface when a live-connected device has no available import sources
• Fix an issue with timer precision in Comet Backup for Windows that could cause battery drain on laptops, and high CPU usage inside virtual machines
• Fix a cosmetic issue with not showing the New Users help area in the Comet Server web interface

Changes compared to 18.2.1 and 18.3.1

• In Comet Server's web interface, prevent closing dialogs when clicking the background, to avoid accidentally closing dialogs when only refocusing the window

Enhancements​

• Reduce idle memory consumption of Comet Server web interface
• Allow configuring the option to reduce number of disk access threads in the Comet Server web interface
• Write Comet Server log files in Notepad-compatible format on Windows
• Add proactive defence layers against possible clickjacking and XSS attacks against the Comet Server web interface