January 2024 release notes
x360Recover 12.5.1 - January 2024
| x360Recover Agent Release Information | |
| Version: | 12.5.1 |
| Release Date(s): | Staged rollout through January 2024 |
Release overview
x360Recover 12.5.1 is a feature release. The focus of this release is to improve the user experience by delivering requested feature enhancements and eliminating bugs.
Summary of new features
- Retention Policy Manager is available, allowing you to create one or more retention policy configurations that can be set as a default or applied to protected systems individually
- ZFS ZSTD compression is now supported1
- LZ4 compression is now deprecated
- The Smart Recovery option is selected by default in the UI
- Fully-integrated shared P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) library is included with Virtual Office
- Paused and missed backup jobs are now reported to Recover Manager
1 Because ZSTD-3 compression offers 8-12% better compression than LZ4, the LZ4 compression method has been deprecated with this release. Existing storage pools will be reconfigured to use ZSTD-3 on all future snapshots, resulting in better storage utilization, reduced replication bandwidth, and less cloud storage consumption over time. Existing storage pools using GZip-4 compression are not affected.
Summary of security updates
- Pinned versions of Python modules to prevent conflicts with Python3 dependencies
- Resolved critical and high security issues due to vulnerable package dependencies
Summary of bug fixes
- Fixed virtualization of protected systems with boot and Windows on different disks
- Fixed virtualization of protected systems with Windows located in a non-standard path
- Fixed recording of missed backup jobs on vaults being assigned to ‘admin’ user
- Fixed issue where mounting D2C Linux protected systems might fail with an error
- Fixed UI issue when creating or expanding a storage pool using RAID6
- Fixed issue with outdated boot loader files on installation ISO
- Fixed issue where the device might begin an update while provisioning is running
- Fixed JavaScript errors when starting VNC Terminal
- Fixed issues to allow enabling and disabling VirtIO on subsequent Live Mode virtualization attempts
- Fixed UI issue where invalid cached values might be retained when editing backup schedules
- Fixed issue where manually running a backup using ‘Start Now’ outside of schedule hours paused the backup.
- Fixed issue where network settings are incorrectly hidden on self-hosted GMP hosts
- Fixed issue with incremental recovery where the last snapshot might not be recovered if a backup is in progress when starting the final pass
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Retention Policy Manager is now available. Existing storage pools will be reconfigured to use ZSTD-3 on all future snapshots and LZ4 compression is now deprecated