Changes compared to 18.12.6
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Changes compared to 18.11.6
– Feature: New “Recent Activity” page in the Comet Server web interface
– Feature: New “Account Name” field for users
– Feature: Option to use legacy V2 signing for S3-compatible storage
– Feature: Support EV Authenticode signing via PKCS#11 hardware token in Comet Server
– Feature: Policy option to set default retention policy
– Feature: Policy options to enforce retention policies in Storage Vaults, and to prevent overriding retention policies in Protected Items
– Feature: Portuguese (Europe) translation
– Feature: Update Spanish translation
– Feature: Option to keep deduplication indexes in on-disk temporary files instead of RAM
– Feature: API to allow end-user single sign on to Comet Server web interface
– Feature: API to list all available software platforms
– Feature: API to download more platform-specific variants of Comet Backup installer, for smaller filesize
– Feature: Unbranded registry option for mixing in additional entropy for differentiating device IDs
– Feature: Add Last Job column to the Protected Items table in the Comet Server web interface
– Feature: Optional new Device ID column on the Connected Devices page
– Enhancement: Unified login for the Comet Server web interface (including login failure logging)
– Enhancement: Show directory sizes in the restore dialog in Comet Backup
– Enhancement: Auto cleanup old Running jobs after a successful software upgrade
– Enhancement: Improve performance for listing backup snapshots in high-latency Storage Vaults
– Enhancement: Improve performance of loading Protected Item history views in Comet Backup by optimising the network request
– Enhancement: Minor performance improvement for browsing Hyper-V VMs
– Enhancement: Minor performance improvement for configuring two-factor authentication settings on Comet Server instances with large numbers of administrator accounts
– Enhancement: Minor reduction in CPU usage when rebuilding indexes
– Enhancement: Minor reduction in memory usage for backup-tool processes
– Enhancement: Reduce peak memory usage when first loading indexes from an existing Storage Vault
– Enhancement: Always use native language for language selection
– Enhancement: Add Storage Vault icons for S3-compatible vaults from Exoscale and Cynnyspace
– Enhancement: Allow entering fractional values in quota fields in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Faster response for job cancellation
– Enhancement: Display custom icon for S3-Compatible Storage Vaults using Alibaba / Aliyun OSS cloud storage
– Enhancement: Display icons for Storage Vault types in the restore dialog in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Add “outdated” badges, clickable device actions, and auto-refresh to the Recent Activity page in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Extend retry behaviour for S3-compatible storage destinations (including Google Cloud Storage)
– Enhancement: Improve retry backoff behaviour for retaking VSS snapshots and for SMB login
– Enhancement: Improve retry behaviour for Exchange EDB metadata operations
– Enhancement: Improve network retry behaviour for Azure storage
– Enhancement: Update French translation
– Enhancement: Portuguese and Spanish language translations fall back to each other instead of English, if possible
– Enhancement: Show current/outdated breakdown when hovering the “Online Devices” column in Comet Server
– Enhancement: Rename all ‘ID’ columns in the Comet Server web interface, to clarify which ID they refer to
– Change Event IDs used by Comet’s service manager process