Changes compared to 18.9.8

New Features​

• Allow administrators to change their own security settings, passwords, and U2F registrations on the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
• Support configuring default email reports via Policy
• Diagnostic option to separate devices that were incorrectly identified as the same on Windows

Changes compared to 18.9.7

Bug Fixes​

• Fix an issue with Policy groups created via API containing null arrays
• Fix an issue with Constellation not canonicalizing default http/https ports in URLs
• Fix an issue with calculating timezones in Brazil and elsewhere, by updating timezone library from 2018e to 2018g
• Fix an issue with installing Comet Backup packages on macOS 10.14 Mojave
• Fix an issue with wrong directory permissions in the Linux (generic) installer for Comet Server
• Fix a cosmetic issue with non-smooth upload/download progress information for FTP Storage Vaults
• Fix a cosmetic issue with disabling "default settings" policies when a policy group is enforced in the Comet Server web interface

Changes compared to 18.8.5 previously appearing in 18.9.6

Enhancements​

• Support SQLNCLI11 provider to connect to Microsoft SQL Server instances

Changes compared to 18.9.6

New Features​

• Policy option to prevent users enabling/disabling the "Allow administrator to reset password" option

Changes compared to 18.9.5

New Features​

• Allow editing existing Mandatory Exclusions in policies in the Comet Server web interface
• Allow uploading branding files directly in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface

Changes compared to 18.9.4

New Features​

• Option to disable sending scheduled email reports

Bug Fixes​

• Fix an issue with Comet Server downloading more data than necessary from server-side cloud storage during restore and deep-verify passes (basic fix)
• Fix an issue with Comet Backup for Linux on ARMv6 and ARMv8 CPUs on some Linux distributions
• Fix an issue with not supporting cancellation during the "finding snapshots" phase of a backup job
• Fix an issue with running "Windows System Backup" jobs on Windows Server 2008
• Fix an issue with "Prevent editing Storage Vault" policies causing deep-verify passes to repeatedly run, and for vault analysis data to be lost
• Fix an issue with "Prevent editing ..." policies causing encrypted material to be invalidly preserved during password rotation, causing "invalid padding" errors

Changes compared to 18.9.3 and 18.8.5

• Cosmetic unify the administrator "What's new" messages with user web interface's News messages

New Features​

• Support scheduled email reports for customers

Changes compared to 18.9.2

New Features​

• New custom email report system
• Allow defining a job filter for email reports
• Allow defining multiple email reports per recipient email address in a single user account

Changes compared to 18.8.3

Enhancements​

• Upgrade bundled timezone library to 2018e