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Connect Management Console

Read this important information before you update to 2.12.  

2.12.5.1237 (25/June/2021)

New: 

  • Diagnostic of storage performance
  • Automated way to install MC with scripts
  • New parameter to prevent bandwidth limit from throttling connection to cloud storages

UI changes

  • Option to save tracker server without testing connection to it
  • New preset for VDI usecase.
  • Disabled button to restart job run on agents of version older than 2.11
  • Renamed Connect Server and Connect tracker in license section
  • Rearranged error message dialog: moved link to Help center and renamed it

Fixes:

  • Fixed agents being removed from auto groups in some cases
  • Fixed incorrect speed scale on some graphs
  • Crash of MC in some cases
  • Fixed redundant IP check when connecting to MC via Cloudflare WAF

Deprecated

  • Support for Windows7 and WindowsServer 2008 will be deprecated in next major release

2.12.4.1211 (07/May/2021)

New

  • Changed the flow of limiting Admin’s access to the Agent's computer
  • Added support for conditional pausing by several tags combined with logical operator

Fixes

  • Fixed invalid parameter value sent from MC to agents

UI changes

  • Added new parameter “User limited” to generate agent configuration file dialog
  • "Default path" value is empty by default on agent configuration file dialog.

2.12.3.1201 (21/April/2021)

  • No changes

2.12.2.1196 (30/March/2021)

  • Added support a few new variables in job triggers and scripts 
  • Support installing MC under a non-system user account through CLI
  • Fixed issue that a view-only user cannot see active files queue in a job run
  • Fixed wrong agent count in the license package after license update

2.12.1.1174 (02/March/2021)

  • Fixed potential data loss when removing an Agent from MC issue

2.12.0.1170 (23/Feb/2021)

New

  • Support for proxy server in the environment
  • Functionality for end users to select the path for a job
  • Functionality for end-users to limit access for the Management Console Admin
  • New counters for number of opened support cases
  • Force deleting of all jobs from the Agent which was removed from the Management Console
  • Show speed test summary at the end of the test

UI changes

  • New warning that the Agent cannot be restarted if a file is opened from the Transparent Selective Sync (TSS) folder on MacOS
  • New warning that the Resilio Agent lacks free space on the drive with the storage folder 
  • Dump debug status shows effective Agent’s settings
  • Rearranged error message and changed the message about Agent’s internal operations
  • New checkbox to fetch proxy logs in support request
  • New status of Agent in job run “path not selected”
  • Renamed UTP3 to ZGT in the speed test 
  • Remove pre-filled value for "Additional base DN" in the LDAP configuration
  • Add pagination into Jobs tab in Agent details view
  • Default suggested path in Path editor in the job is the Agent’s default folder location

Profile changes

  • Changed tracker settings configuration
  • New suggested profile for jobs that sync with a cloud storage
  • Enabling/disabling Archive applied to currently active sync jobs
  • Renamed UTP3 to ZGT in Tunnel Protocols
  • New preset for Transparent Selective Sync
  • New options: Use proxy, Trackers, Allowed peers

Fixed

  • Wrong jobs’ status if database was not shutdown correctly
  • Minor improvement of error messages layout
  • Column resizing in Agent’s Activity tab in job run
  • Distorted UI layout in job run overview in Internet Explorer 11
  • Excessive certificate check from SMTP server even if TLS is disabled
  • Fixes and improvements for submitting debug logs to support
  • Manual event log displaying "loading..." forever

Limited or deprecated

  • Remove direct e-mail from support page
  • Agents get removed from MC for good. It's not possible to reconnect them back without reinstalling the agent. 

 

Read this important information before you update to 2.11. 

2.11.7.1167 (18/Feb/2021)

  • Fixed damaged zip with debug logs in a support case

2.11.5.1145 (25/Dec/2020)

  • No changes

2.11.4.1141 (09/Dec/2020)

  • Fixed importing a json file to a Profile

2.11.3.1129 (25/Nov/2020)

  • New warning about symbolic links blocking synchronisation 
  • Fixed cloud storage browsing button being active for offline agents

2.11.2.1122 (13/Nov/2020)

New:

  • Changed folder browser landing page for cloud storages
  • Option to create 'folders' inside cloud storage objects from folder browser

Fixes:

  • Enabled all network protocols on clean installation
  • Fixed statistics graph not updating if there’s no activity
  • Fixed blank job profile page on job configuration step
  • Fixed collecting logs from agents that recorded it with a customers using --log parameter
  • Fixed warning text in folder browser for Consolidation job

2.11.1.1119 (03/Nov/2020)

New: 

  • User password expiration time
  • Two-factor authentication for Users
  • Email notifications about some events on the Management Console (Agents pending approval, Agent was removed, Agent was added)
  • Test connection to a cloud storage before using it in a job
  • Daily and weekly summary reports
  • Option to restart an Agent in a job run
  • New tab with active upload/download files queue in a job run
  • Ability to browse through cloud buckets and containers when editing a job path
  • Support for SAS tokens in Azure cloud storage configuration
  • Landing page of folder browser is one level up from job’s folder
  • Added search to job run
  • Added search by parameter code in Profiles
  • Improved job run overview statistics, it shows destination agents that completed file transfer
  • Added selection of protocols to speed diagnostic
  • Added events about creating/updating/deleting of a cloud storage to audit log
  • Log level is changed to ‘debug’ for clean installation.

UI changes: 

  • Path macros dropdown was rearranged
  • Cloud storage access key will be hidden after update
  • API tokens will be hidden after update
  • Show agent’s uptime in Agents table and agent’s details 
  • New validation scheme for different editing forms 
  • Re-arranged some error messages to show full list of affected files
  • Changed warning text for MC server running out of space
  • Changes cloud storage profile warning
  • Changed text of error on consolidation job with multiple source agents syncing into same directory 
  • Changed text on email template about a not yet finished job run 
  • Added system error code to database error message
  • Added warning about SMTP server not configured
  • Renamed status for Sync job from Completed to Idle
  • Renamed "Conflict" column to "Is used", and value to "already used"
  • Renamed columns "Down/Up diff" to "Down/Up remaining"
  • Renamed filter of agents in a job run from "Succeeded" to "Successfully completed"
  • Removed all support-related items from MISCELLANEOUS to SUPPORT menu
  • Added year of expiration  to bootstrap token display info 
  • Redesigned buttons on dialog for approving new agents

Profile changes

  • New Agent profile section with new parameters  "Enable bandwidth scheduler in Agent UI" and "Allow pause from Agent UI"
  • Renamed preset "Optimize for file deduplication" to "Optimize for data transfer reduction"
  • New parameter Tunnel protocols in network setting in Agent profile 
  • Parameter "Native Selective Sync" is renamed to "Advanced Selective Sync" and is enabled by default for new installations and updates
  • Renamed "Sync NTFS permissions" values in Job profile (By DACL - Don't sync Owner; By OwnerGroup - Sync full ACL)
  • Removed option "Skip modified files" from job profile
  • Renamed option "Skip locked files" in agent profile to "Skip file errors" and improved its behavior. It replaces the deprecated "Skip modified files" 
  • Added preset "Optimized for collaboration"

Fixes: 

  • Resetting password takes default storage path, if custom path is not specified
  • Decreased timeout for webhook notifications to 30 seconds
  • Insecure user sessions
  • Marking agent as offline only in 10 minutes after network disconnection
  • Job path switching to "Custom" 

Limited or deprecated functionality

  • Enabling or disabling Selective Sync mode in a saved job is no longer supported 
  • Removed Configure job tab for View-only users
  • Removed validation of buckets/container names in cloud storage configuration
  • Project name for Google Cloud storage is replaced with ProjectID
  • Default tunnel protocols are limited to ZGT (utp3) 
  • Removed option "Skip modified files" from job profile
  • Disabled profile setting "Asynchronous disk I/O" by default for new installations

2.10.2.1109 (19/Oct/2020)

  • Fixed failure to start caused by too many errors saved in database
  • Fixed “Known hosts” not showing in Agents’ connectivity map
  • Fixed MC UI freezing if long DNS names are used as “Known hosts”

2.10.1.1087 (21/Aug/2020)

  • Will be deprecated: support for OS X 10.11 and older will be dropped with next major release
  • Disabled validation of bucket name for S3 compatible object storages
  • Improved reporting that agents send events too slowly
  • Minor UI changes

2.10.0.1083 (03/Aug/2020)

  • Support for Azure files
  • Native selective sync on windows 
  • New password complexity requirements
  • UI changes and fixes

2.9.8.1068 (29/Jun/2020)

  • Minor & cosmetic fixes

2.9.7.1063 (16/Jun/2020)

  • Fixed notifications stop working  after misconfiguring webhooks

2.9.6.1061 (11/Jun/2020)

  • Fixed unexpected AD users logout 

2.9.4.1058 (09/Jun/2020)

  • Fixed admins not being able to login via AD when MC to AD connection hangs

2.9.3.1043 (28/May/2020)

  • New: option to set job on pause depending on Agent tags
  • Option to skip modified files and continue Distribution and Consolidation jobs. 
  • Show admin’s local time for job run schedule 
  • Minor UI changes and improvement

2.9.2.1027 (05/May/2020)

  • Minor UI changes and improvements
  • Fixed some events missing right after starting a job
  • Fixed agent name tag not updating in MC UI

2.9.1.1016 (30/March/2020)

  • Support for object storages
  • Improved Job runs errors managing
  • Better mail notifications
  • Introduced webhook notifications
  • Core improvements to manage large volumes of events logs
  • Disabled logging by tracker installed together with MC
  • Option to configure trusted CA 
  • Improved behavior of restarting job runs on some Agents
  • No more abort transfer if complete script fails on source Agent
  • Fixed MC trying to start another instance of Agent after crash
  • Fixed upgrade from older versions with a default group setting
  • Fixed Job scheduler not trying to start a failed job
  • Preserve “Skip email notice if jobs did not transfer files” setting
  • Fixed update of “last sync time” for all Agents in a Sync job
  • Prevent session fixation attacks
  • Parameter useEventsServer is deprecated
  • Event type "Warning" is deprecated. All warnings are type "Error" 
  • Minor UI changes

 

2.8.5.996 (24/Feb/2020)

  • Implemented option to skip the files that changed during Distribution or Consolidation job runs
  • Сhanged status of agents that completed an aborted job run from "Failed" to "Finished"
  • Fixed setting to "Skip e-mail notice if no files were transferred" 

 

2.8.4.979 (15/Jan/2020)

  • Fixed Console API allowing to create jobs with the same names
  • Fixed Job scheduler stops working due to race condition sometimes
  • Fixed upgrade making server unable to start if auto groups were used in 2.5 server 

2.8.3.952 (04/Nov/2019)

  • Minor changes

2.8.2.950 (25/Oct/2019)

  • Minor changes

2.8.1.944 (15/Oct/2019)

  • Fixed connection of older agent to MC with expired bootstrap token

 

2.8.0.939 (08/Oct/2019)

  • Agent’s connections map in a job run
  • New mechanism for approving newly connected agent
  • Option to check available speed bandwidth between agents 
  • Ability to force agent to rescan files in a directory 
  • Show detailed agent’s operations in a job run
  • Use TLS ciphers with perfect forward secrecy for WebUI and agents’ connections to MC
  • Auto-sorting of agents to groups by tags
  • Moving agent seamlessly between groups
  • Support SMTP with anonymous login
  • Report all speed metrics in bits per second in MC UI 
  • Minor UI changes
    Fixes 
  • Fixed connections to tracker not honouring “Bind interface” parameter 
  • Fixed filters layout on small screens

 

2.7.3.908 (16/Jul/2019)

  • Minor UI changes and improvements

2.7.2.895 (18/Jun/2019)

  • Implemented folder browser
  • Enhanced reporting of the next scheduled job run
  • Improved e-mail notifications
  • Minor UI changes and improvements

2.7.1.876 (23/May/2019)

  • Minor improvements

2.7.0.873 (17/May/2019)

  • Email notifications upon transfer completion
  • Option not to abort abort job run if it overlaps with the next scheduled
  • Improved "Generate agent config" dialog
  • Option to rename agent from MC UI
  • Option to restart agent from MC UI
  • Improved "Support feedback" form
  • Some new detailed statuses of agents

2.6.3.841 (04/April/2019)

  • Show active status of Tracker Server in MC settings section
  • Improved loading events in UI

2.6.2.828 (20/March/2019)

  • Dockerized MC
  • Disabled ability to create job with empty paths for agents
  • Fixed rename of sync job run after renaming the job itself
  • Minor UI improvements

 

2.6.1.819 (25/Feb/2019)

  • Fixed applying new job’s priority to active job run
  • Implemented job run’s priority
  • Fixed rename of sync job run after renaming the job itself
  • Fixed invalid time filter in Events tab
  • Added support for iPv6 in Predefined Hosts option
  • Fixed sorting by size in job run’s agents view

 

2.6.0.806 (15/Feb/2019)

  • Implemented MC audit events log
  • Added limit of 10 login attempts
  • Fixed sometimes inactive "Save" button when editing job
  • Added “Server log level” as advanced setting
  • Fixed connectivity to MC when bootstrap token is missing

 

2.5.2.766 (17/Dec/2018)

  • implemented selection of shells for script triggers
  • feature to automatically sort new agent into groups
  • improved agent details with full events logs fetching
  • added option to clean database from old job runs history records
  • improved fetching of big volumes of events logs on slow connection
  • added validation of tags in scripts
  • show last seen IP address for offline agents

 

2.5.1.736 (12/Nov/2018)

  • fixed migration of finished transfers from pre-2.5 versions.

 

2.5.0.728 (31/Oct/2018)

  • Implemented Job Runs for each job
  • Added detailed information about Job Run and agents
  • Redesigned UI and menu
  • Implemented a track of alerts on Console and agents
  • Fixed losing settings after Windows update

 

2.4.6.679 (23/Aug/2018)

  • Improved message exchange with agents

 

2.4.5.667 (01/Aug/2018)

  • Fixed saving changes in edited job when clicking ‘Cancel’
  • Improved fetching big volumes of debug logs from agents
  • Fixed agents’ failure to reconnect to MC after crash
  • New option to create source folder for transfer jobs with pre-indexing script (custom parameter Job profile)
  • False positive warning about agent running out of space in some cases

 

2.4.4.656 (29/June/2018)

  • Configurable backup location
  • Reporting of up status

 

2.4.3.644 (21/June/2018)

  • Fixed checkboxes in Profiles in Internet Explorer 11
  • Put link to Q&A site

 

2.4.2.631 (11/June/18)

  • Adding agents to transfer jobs when it’s running
  • API for transfer priority per agent

 

2.4.1.624 (29/May/18)

  • Implemented transfer prioritizing for an agent.
  • Fixed synchronization of unwanted files when using Whitelist "all files" in Profile
  • Fixed saving AD user groups in Management Console
  • Fixed removal of files with too long filenames from Linux OS
  • Fixed dll loading schema

 

2.4.0.617 (04/May/18)

  • Added Advanced user management
  • Different authorization levels for API tokens
  • Ability to see agents’ event logs in UI
  • Added certificates and license into backup
  • Option to resume paused jobs by schedule
  • Fixed empty error messages
  • Fixed upgrade failures in cases when MC is installed into a custom directory
  • Preserve sorting order when switching between tabs

 

2.3.2.581 (15/Feb/18)

  • Fixed MC unable to save database sometimes
  • Fixed MC UI working intermittently when many agents reported errors
  • Fixed invalid status for Synchronization jobs
  • Fixed script job reporting 100% when some agents not finished yet
  • Other minor fixes

 

2.3.1.580 (05/Feb/18)

  • Improved tracker connectivity diagnostics
  • Added agent filtering in "Run on agents" functionality
  • Fixed server not re-starting automatically in case of failure
  • Fixed agent showing up as "online" in MS Edge browser only
  • Fixed agent not participating in job if offline on job startup
  • Fixed job showing invalid status after job finished
  • Fixed inability to view job summary after agents removal
  • Fixed inability to get client logs when bind interface is enforced but not set
  • Fixed button "Add ldap user" disappearing on manual page refresh
  • Fixed Administrator missing "Support" page
  • Fixed invalid job status if server runs multiple worker threads
  • Fixed server not starting scheduled tasks due to time zone differences
  • Fixed inability to reset admin password on server
  • Fixed server not reflecting permissions change
  • Fixed server not sorting groups by agents count column
  • Fixed server showing "maximum call stack exceeded" sometimes
  • Fixed job wizard inability to create job with 500+ agents
  • Fixed server placing loopback IPv6 address when downloading config
  • Minor UI fixes

 

2.3.0.566 (22/Jan/18)

Features and improvements

  • Added job priorities Improved Management Console performance - 10k agents / 100 jobs
  • Improved graphs and added real-time graph
  • The "Run when agent completes download" trigger can now wait until the designated local Agents' time before executing
  • Added extended configuration parameters
  • Added ability to add single
  • Agent to a job Ability to submit tickets and logs to support directly from the Management Console
  • Added Job profiles
  • Added MTU configuration for VPN
  • Moved Management Console and Agent default to LOCAL_SYSTEM account on Windows
  • Added Universal license type
  • Added NAS license type
  • Changed all speed measurements to byte-based instead of bit-based
  • Improved usability: "Data transferred" column shows the amount of data transferred over network since last job start
  • Added ability to disable event.log for a job
  • Improved LDAP error reporting
  • Optimized Management Console  view for smaller resolutions
  • Added ability to hide "Remove from all devices" menu item by profile setting
  • Other minor cosmetic changes

Bugfixes

  • Locked file error does not update sometimes
  • Offline Agents keep showing error in MC
  • Distribution job stucks if archive is disabled and a file larger than Max_file_size_for_versioning
  • Management Console Service unable to stop gracefully
  • Management Console not reporting locked file at all sometimes

 

2.2.12.543 (27/Nov/17)

  • Fixed agents not syncing files if Archive was cleared on them
  • Fixed error reporting for locked files
  • Fixed Script job starting on all agents instead of selected ones
  • Fixed Console's database not saved sometimes
  • Fixed and improved some API calls
  • Improved logging by tracker server
  • Removed some excessive error messages

 

2.2.11.534 (15/Nov/17)

  • Post command fails on consolidation job destination agent in some cases
  • Fixed monitoring of locked files
  • Improved error reporting

 

2.2.10.522 (02/Nov/17)

  • Improved error reporting by agents
  • Improved events.log amount of event typesFixed "No connection to tracker" error appearing
  • spontaneously
  • Fixed "No connection to tracker" error appearing after transfer job completion
  • Fixed transfer jobs not writing events to events.log
  • Fixed inability to download log files when logs are huge
  • Fixed API not reporting anything when content-type not specified
  • Fixed MC not resetting "Disk full" error

 

2.2.7.501 (29/Sep/17)

  • Added job minute run granularity

 

2.2.6.495 (12/Sep/17)

  • Added transfer job events to events.log

 

2.2.5.494 (11/Sep/17)

  • Optimized backup processing when used with 1K+ agents
  • Optimized job history dialog when used with 1K+ agents
  • Fixed Server DB getting damaged on emergency MC shutdown

 

2.2.4.491 (1/Sep/17)

  • Improved event log for Sync jobs
  • File locks are shown as errors in MC
  • Optimized MC UI traffic consumption
  • Fixed invalid Agent status after update
  • Fixed sporadic MC UI disconnects from the server
  • Fixed inability to upgrade from older versions of Connect
  • Fixed server invalid links to Agents
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.2.3.483 (14/Aug/17)

  • Added job paused / unpaused status in Console API
  • Fixed Console API showing invalid job status sometimes
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.2.2.479 (02/Aug/17)

  • Implemented transfer jobs timeouts with specific configurable messages
  • Implemented job restart on selected agents only
  • Implemented Agent identification by name only
  • Added warning when disk space is less than 5%
  • Added “select all” checkbox in group properties
  • Improved server performance
  • Updated transfer job history with start / stop time
  • Fixed server not downloading logs sometimes
  • Other minor and cosmetic fixes and changes

 

2.2.0 (20/Jul/17)

  • Management Console API
  • Multi-level admin login
  • AD integration for admins
  • NTFS permissions synchronization
  • Files transfer speed optimization
  • Tracker server integrated
  • Splunk log integration

 

2.1.12.467 (17/Jul/17)

  • Only updated agent in Console

 

2.1.9.411 (18/May/17)

  • Fixed incorrect time in transfers history
  • Implemented default profile which does not conflict to other profiles
  • Fixed transfers non-running if at least one transfer in a job has an error
  • Fixed transfers not added to history
  • Fixed NO_TRACKER_CONNECTION_ERROR not displayed
  • Fixed unfinished job not mentioned in history
  • Fixed inability to stop failed job
  • Fixed inability to start consolidation job

 

2.1.7.403 (28/Apr/17)

  • Fixed MC memory leak

 

2.1.5.401 (20/Apr/17)

  • Improved events.log to conform JSON format
  • Implemented events.log rotation

 

2.1.4.391 (11/Apr/17)

  • Implemented automatic server settings backup before upgrade
  • Implemented server preserving user account when upgrading (only valid for upgrade to version newer than 2.1.4.391)
  • Fixed newly added tag absent in drop-down list
  • Fixed columns sorting working incorrectly sometimes
  • Fixed agent removed from transfer job sometimes
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.1.1.384 (16/Mar/17)

  • Fixed files and size reset to zero after server restart
  • Fixed files and size reset to zero after upgrade
  • Fixed Consolidation job removal during upgrade
  • Fixed script logs not fetching after client restart
  • Fixed inability to change job properties
  • Fixed incorrect tags resolution causing transfer job stop after upgrade
  • Fixed job showing progress status after server restart
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.1.0.376 (07/Mar/17)

Features:

  • Made transfer jobs reusable
  • Improved transfer jobs control (start / stop anytime)
  • Add scheduler for automatic transfer jobs reuse
  • Implemented new "Run script" type of job
  • Added more triggers to run scripts on agents
  • Added job execution history (only transfer jobs)
  • Added explicit macros for source and destination paths
  • Implemented job information view
  • Implemented column rearrangement
  • Other UI improvements

Bugfixes:

  • MC UI information not updated sometimes
  • Job errors slide to other, unrelated jobs
  • UI shows "undefined" in total data transferred sometimes
  • Zero-sized files are not counted
  • Column sorting is invalid
  • Job search works incorrectly in Create/Edit Group dialog
  • Other minor UI fixes

 

2.0.14.358 (17/Feb/17)

  • Only updated Agent, packaged as a part of MC

 

2.0.13.353 (14/Feb/17)

  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.0.12.349 (06/Feb/17)

  • Fixed global statistic is incorrect sometimes

 

2.0.11.347 (30/Jan/17)

  • Fixed "Total data downloaded" column not updating automatically

 

2.0.10.344 (23/Jan/17)

  • Fixed unassigned agents showing up in MC as "synced"

 

2.0.9.340 (18/Jan/17)

  • Fixed job showing incorrect size sometimes
  • Fixed server not saving group changes if shut down unexpectedly

 

2.0.8.336 (28/Dec/16)

  • Introduced "Custom tracker modes" settings to profiles
  • Fixed groups removal on backup restoration
  • Fixed incorrect number of groups in job dashboard

 

2.0.7.335 (16/Dec/16)

  • Minor UI fixes

 

2.0.6.332 (15/Dec/16)

  • Job description column is now available

 

2.0.5.330 (12/Dec/16)

Changes and improvements

  • Improved memory usage
  • Introduced template config for Console Agent
  • Calculate speed in kbps in Scheduler
  • Fixes
  • Incorrect percentage shown in status column
  • Wrong size of synced files for older (1.3.x) Agents
  • Fixed unlimited param in Scheduler
  • Minor fixes

 

2.0.4.326 (02/Dec/16)

  • Fixed update error from 2.0.1.313

 

2.0.3.325 (01/Dec/16)

  • Improved server performance
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.0.2.314 (28/Nov/16)

Bugfixes

  • Dashboard graph slow updates
  • Invalid dashboard graphs after server restart
  • Agents stop syncing immediately after license expires
  • Console UI hangs when opening job details
  • Console UI hangs when selecting 1 hour step for graph
  • Console UI loads extremely slowly after server restart
  • Job dashboard does not open sometimes
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.0.1.313 (23/Nov/16)

Bugfixes

  • Saw-shaped "Total bytes transferred" graph
  • Server's agent does not reconnect to Console
  • Server installation fails if Windows Firewall service is disabled
  • Job details show incorrect size for selective sync clients

 

2.0.0.307 (21/Nov/16)

Features and improvements

  • New transmission modes - data distribution and consolidation
  • New dashboard introduced, providing overall overview, stats for agents and jobs
  • Job post-command, allowing to run custom command on target peer when job is complete
  • Selective Sync RW folders support
  • Agents real-time status, showing space, memory and CPU usage
  • Agents tagging, allowing flexible agents sorting and control
  • Jobs pause / unpause
  • Simplified setup for Management Console and Agents
  • Built-in Agent instance for Management Console installation
  • Dynamic diff, allowing less data to be transferred when files are changed
  • Peers limit per share is now configurable via profiles
  • Agents can now keep fully-replicated RO folders by removing files that are absent on RW peer

Bugfixes

  • Agents disconnect when old license expires and new license applied
  • Scheduler starts and stops Agent activity at xx:30 instead of xx:00
  • Server IP is not updated in config export when IP changes
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

Connect Agents

Read this important information before you update to 2.12. 

2.12.5.1846 (25/June/2021)

New

  • Option to follow symbolic links and sync them as files or folders on Linux agents
  • Supply scripts to improve system performance (increase system socket buffers, number of inotify watchers and remove core dump limits)

UI changes

  • Improved error message in case Agent UI is opened is several user sessions
  • Minor text improvements on start screen

Fixes

  • Fixed crash while processing over 20mln placeholders in TSS on Windows
  • Fixed crash when files’ content change without changing timestamp or size, but Agent doesn’t know their metadata
  • Fixed subscribing to inotify watchers after failure
  • Fixed increasing connection timeouts between agents and MC in case of re-applying profile policy
  • Fixed not user-friendly error message if default folder path in Agent UI is saved blank.

 

2.12.4.1822 (07/May/2021)

New

  • Changed the flow of limiting Admin’s access to the Agent's computer
  • Added menu “always keep synced” to the fuse volume for TSS shares on macOS agents
  • Improved flow of selecting fuse volume and subfolders to be always synced in TSS shares on macOS agents
  • Added icon on a subfolder which is selected to be always kept synced
  • Added support for conditional pausing by several tags combined with logical operators 
  • Introduces warning that priority peer is not connected 
  • Added warning in case when the share’s path selected by user equals the default folder location

Fixes

  • Fixed TSS share on macOS not reporting available space correctly
  • Fixed incorrectly processing rename of a subfolder in which files are being downloaded 
  • Fixed possible file removal in case of editing sync root registry key for TSS shares on Windows
  • Improved tunnel ‘keep alive’ and recheck intervals for better compatibility with load balancers. 
  • Fixed folder scan in case when file system notifications are disabled and hashing of folder is switched off. 
  • Fixed distribution job stalling if the locked file is present on a destination Agent 
  • Fixed false positive warning about disallowed scripts on an Agent

UI changes

  • Fixed restricted configuration layout 
  • Show empty rows for the shares with non-selected path in Agent UI
  • Gray out and remove some context menu items for files in a subfolder which is selected to be always synced in TSS shares on macOS agents

2.12.3.1813 (21/April/2021)

  • Fixed crash when moving deleted files to Archive
  • Fixed merging folder tree after update from older versions

2.12.2.1805 (30/March/2021)

  • Remove configuration popup for default folder path and Admin’s permissions
  • Enable all columns in Agent UI by default for clean installations.
  • Support for two-nodes Windows cluster 
  • Fixed placeholder not syncing automatically if moved into a auto-synced subdirectory
  • Force unmounting TSS folder on macOS if Agent crashes 
  • Fixed unexpected file removal if database pre-load mode is enabled.
  • Fixed improperly showing special symbols in file names in UI warnings

2.12.0.1791 (23/Feb/2021)

New

  • Functionality for end-users to select the path for a job
  • Functionality for end-users to limit access for the Management Console Admin
  • Support for establishing connection through proxy
  • Support for M1 chips on MacOS (Universal)

UI changes

  • Change text on the empty history tab in the Agent UI

Fixed

  • Enabling/disabling Archive applied to currently active sync jobs
  • Fixed a crash, if the Agent goes offline during speed test 
  • Improved file naming in the Archive directory
  • Fixed Job stuck because of wrong piece hash in cloud storage
  • Fixed "Finished uploading files" notification on MacOS
  • Fixed Files not syncing over ZGT in an unstable network
  • Report error to MC if Agent stuck on disk operations
  • Added osxfuse module version 4.0.5 (for TSS on macOS)

Limited or deprecated 

  • Disable "Repair" option from msi installer

 

2.11.7.1788 (18/Feb/2021)

  • Improved synchronization of files which change very frequently or are not available to the Agent
  • Fixed handles leak in a TSS folder on Windows
  • Fixed crash when querying list of active downloads
  • Fixed crash when syncing with a pre-seeded Google cloud storage
  • Optimized file uploads from GoogleCloud storage when Agent is missing metadata
  • Optimized transfer over AGT in a non-stable network
  • Fixed file recheck in case it was interrupted
  • Improved transfer speed over ZGT on macOS agents

2.11.5.1758 (29/Dec/2020)

  • Fixed creation of placeholder files on a Windows10 version build 19042.685
  • Fixed crash on Windows Server 2019
  • Improved handling of files that changed during transfer in Distribution or Consolidation jobs.

2.11.4.1751 (09/Dec/2020)

  • Fixed context menu formatting for TSS on macOS
  • Fixed possible JS injection in Agent UI warning

2.11.3.1739 (25/Nov/2020)

  •  Fixed crash on a Linux system

2.11.2.1723 (13/Nov/2020)

  • Fixed parameter “--log” not working for Linux Agent

2.11.1.1720 (03/Nov/2020)

Deprecated:

  • support for OS X 10.11 and older

New features: 

  • Transparent selective sync for macOS agents. 
  • In agent UI show files’ path on mouse hover in active queue
  • Disabled profile setting "Asynchronous disk I/O" by default for new installations
  • New bandwidth scheduler in agent UI (requires admin action)
  • Increased default log size from 100Mb to 1Gb, it may affect storage space

Fixes:

  • Fixed re-syncing files in pre-seeded folder if NTFS permissions are enabled
  • Fixed download progress jumping from 99% to 10% in some cases.
  • Synchronization not completing because of shifted flags in database
  • Autogroups not working if agent tags are set through Agent API 
  • Big files not syncing because of etag on Backblaze cloud storage
  • File updates not syncing after ungraceful restart

Limited or deprecated functionality:

  • Remove Local Service from installer

 

2.10.2.1708 (19/Oct/2020)

  • Core improvements to transfer millions of files
  • Improved option to skip changed files during transfer
  • Agent will make probe to see if creation time can be written on chosen location

2.10.1.1684 (21/Aug/2020)

  • Will be deprecated: support for OS X 10.11 and older will be dropped with next major release
  • Fixed CFAPI flags shift after update
  • Fixed transfer stalling if some files change in some cases

2.10.0.1679 (03/Aug/2020)

  • Restricted activity when paused
  • Native selective sync for Agents on Windows
  • Core fixes
  • Speed improvements

2.9.8.1665 (29/Jun/2020)

  • Fixed sync job stops due to file creation timestamp change on read-only agent
  • Fixed Bind Interface parameter change causing agent to hang
  • Fixed file getting stuck in pre-seeded synchronization job sometimes
  • Fixed agent crashing on applying new network parameters sometimes

2.9.7.1656 (16/Jun/2020)

  • Improved speed over ZGT on 3G networks

2.9.4.1653 (09/Jun/2020)

  • Fixed agent not properly applying IgnoreList from Management Console on OS X
  • Fixed unexpected speed drop in ZGT in some cases
  • Added more checks for share’s ID before processing files
  • Fixed crash caused by enabled data compression
  • Fixed other rare crashes

2.9.3.1638 (28/May/2020)

  • Sync files’ and folders’ creation time attribute
  • Remove "Locked" flag on OS X before moving file to archive
  • Fixed checking free space on the mapped drive before starting file transfer
  • Fixed some extra files remaining in upload and download queue in Agent UI
  • Fixed job not starting if file was modified on source Agent
  • Fixed Agent UI loses connection to agent service when network share is unavailable
  • Rename Download files & Upload files columns in agent UI

2.9.2.1624 (05/May/2020)

  • Fixed whitelisting subfolders below root
  • Improved seeding of file delayed with FileDelayConfig
  • Fixed starting on Synology with broadwell microarchitecture
  • Fixed crash if compression is enabled 
  • Fixed crash in Agent UI if open files queue
  • Improved disk operation when applying ACL
  • Fixed disk load if scanning files filtered by age
  • Optimized behavior with a lot of opened network tunnels
  • Core fixes and improvements

 

2.9.1.1610 (30/March/2020)

  •  Faster speed of transfer with new ZGT protocol
  • Made Agent tolerant to packets number disorder
  • Don’t inherit files permissions from .sync on Synology
  • Preserve logon for Agent service after update on Windows
  • Fixed POSIX permissions are not syncing by name
  • Added free space verification on mounted shares
  • Fixed not honoring system umask in Storage folder files
  • No long write zero-sized files to Archive

2.8.5.1586 (24/Feb/2020)

  • Optimized rescan of Archive directory 
  • Fixed applying some of specific file permissions
  • Fixed leaving unnecessary database files on disk after job run completion
  • Improved the flow to run Agent package as custom user on Linux

2.8.4.1566 (15/Jan/2020)

  • Fixed ignore list not applied till agent restart
  • Fixed agent consuming too much system resources when another agent changes ports rapidly
  • Fixed agent crashing due to malformed FS notification
  • Fixed agent unable to synchronize job which points to directory junction instead of folder
  • Fixed "Delete files absent on source" option not respecting ignore list in distribution and consolidation jobs
  • Fixed selective sync for Mac showing menu items in Chinese regardless of system locale settings
  • Fixed agent unable to complete sync job due to invalid NTFS permissions (double ACE entries)
  • Fixed agent unable to set NTFS permissions inherited from the drive itself
  • Added "DfsrPrivate" entry to default ignore list

2.8.3.1539 (04/Nov/2019)

  • Fixed memory consumption
  • Implemented option to recheck file hashes again after download

2.8.2.1537 (25/Oct/2019)

  • Fixed folder scan for Synchronization jobs 

2.8.1.1532 (15/Oct/2019)

  • Fixed a crash
  • Fixed processing the renames of files 

 

2.8.0.1529 (08/Oct/2019)

  • Simplified flow for agent to connect to MC through MC address only. 
  • Improved Agent profile, optimized for fewer disk operations
  • Improved agents startup by preloading big database files
  • Faster and less frequent folder scan
    Fixes 
  • Fixed syncing of big xattrs on files
  • Fixed agent skipping FS events if a file is moved into an ignored folder
  • Fixed syncing of posix permissions by id on files

2.7.3.1491 (16/Jul/2019)

  • Fixed memory consumption for added folders

2.7.2.1480 (18/Jun/2019)

  • Option to use AES256 encryption algorithm
  • New Profile settings for Selective Sync folder
  • Fixed filename conflicts for placeholders
  • Sorting and filtering of job runs in API

2.7.1.1472 (23/May/2019)

  • Fixed memory consumption for pre-seeded folders 

2.7.0.1466 (17/May/2019)

  • Transfer and Script jobs in UI
  • Option to paste config file from clipboard to agent installer
  • Reduced RAM consumption during folder merge
  • Fixed synchronization of inheritance flag in NTFS permissions set
  • Core fixes

2.6.3.1436 (04/April/2019)

  • Fixed Selective Sync context menu for linux SMB shares
  • Fixed downloading file by double-click For Selective Sync folders on Windows
  • Improved establishing TLS connection to Console in restricted environment

2.6.2.1426 (20/March/2019)

  • Fixed handling system file events over SMB
  • Fixed Selective Sync context menu items for UNC paths
  • Improved periodic rescan pace
  • Dockerized agents
  • Fixed crash

 

2.6.1.1423 (25/Feb/2019)

  • Minor fixes and improvements

 

2.6.0.1419 (15/Feb/2019)

  • Implemented Agent UI
  • Fixed FileDelayConfig
  • Core fixes and improvements

 

2.5.3.1401 (04/Jan/2019)

  • Improved handling of incorrect disconnection of unplugged drives
  • Fixed execution of post scripts if job has offline agents
  • Improved connectivity between agents
  • Fixed checkmarks in Finder for Selective Sync folders
  • Minor fixes and improvements

 

2.5.2.1394 (17/Dec/2018)

  • clear cache of old "known hosts" addresses
  • optimized speed of transferring large numbers of small files over WAN
  • option to set agent tags through agent config file
  • added possibility to merge agent config into MSI

 

2.5.1.1370 (11/Nov/2018)

  • minor fixes in signing file updates

 

2.5.0.1365 (31/Oct/2018)

  • Improved speed of syncing to a network share
  • Option to install service with logon under specific user by msi
  • Removed expiration date from peer certificate
  • "Force complete job for offline agent" now works for Consolidation job
  • Fixed applying Known Hosts parameter
  • Fixed failure to connect to Management Console with wrong Bind Interface setting
  • Fixed restarting agent via script if a child process runs
  • Fixed removing files with long names from Linux machine
  • Fixed incorrect disk space calculation in some cases
  • Force rescan of locked files once they're unlocked
  • Increased priory of system notifications over periodic rescan
  • Fixed losing settings after Windows update

 

2.4.6.1322 (23/Aug/2018)

  • Optimized memory cache usage.

 

2.4.5.1308 (01/Aug/2018)

  • Fixed crashes of agents on OSX 10.9 and 10.8.
  • Support for %SDCARD% path macro on Android agent.

 

2.4.4.1295 (29/June/2018)

  • Fixed silent installation on Windows

 

2.4.3.1287 (21/June/2018)

  • Fixed deadlock causing agent to stall
  • Added error message for changed files in transfer jobs.

 

2.4.2.1276 (11/June/18)

  • Option not to normalize unicode

 

2.4.1.1273 (29/May/18)

  • Implemented transfer prioritizing for an agent.
  • Fixed syncing NTFS Owner permissions
  • Fixed synchronization of unwanted files when using Whitelist "all files" in Profile
  • Fixed agent crash
  • Fixed removal of files with too long filenames from Linux OS
  • Fixed dll loading schema

 

2.4.0.1262 (04/May/18)

  • Fixed not resettings “locked files” error in certain cases
  • Fixed sending debug logs from a Linux agent
  • Fixed disconnecting from MC because of expired bootstrap and big policy
  • “Known hosts” parameter not applied if added for already configured job.
  • Crash fixes
  • Agents disconnect because of expired bootstrap token
  • Option “Overwrite any changes” in profile is now True by default
  • Fixed incorrect job statuses when files are removed from Archive
  • Consolidation job unable to start anymore in certain conditions
  • Fixed crashes

 

2.3.3 (1272) (23/May/2018)

  • Fixed dll loading schema

 

2.3.2.1227 (15/Feb/18)

  • Fixed source agent invalid files processing
  • Fixed agent registering as duplicate in MC sometimes
  • Fixed agent unable to access to it's own folder (packages only)

 

2.3.1.1220 (05/Feb/18)

  • Improved tracker connectivity diagnostics
  • Fixed inability to get client logs when bind interface is enforced but not set
  • Fixed peers losing connection sometimes
  • Fixed various crashes

 

2.3.0.1205 (22/Jan/18)

Features and improvements

  • Added job Priorities
  • Improved WAN Optimized speed
  • Improved overall file transfer speed
  • Added ability to execute scripts on local time
  • Added lazy indexing to improve transfer speed
  • Added MTU configuration for VPN
  • Reduced memory usage during indexing
  • Optimized redundant connections
  • Added ability to hide "Remove from all devices" menuitem by profile setting

 

Bugfixes

  • Various fixes related to permissions transfer
  • Different crash scenarios
  • Agent loses tags if get restarted during job execution
  • DB files remain after transfer job finished
  • Windows preventing long script execution
  • Extremely slow indexing on pre-seeded folders with millions of files
  • Job hangs without error if no write permission on RO agent
  • Agent ungraceful shutdown may reset all agent's settings
  • Files delivery stuck by various reasons

 

2.2.10.1123 (02/Nov/17)

  • Improved error reporting by agents
  • Improved events.log amount of event types

 

2.2.7.1097 (29/Sep/17)

  • Added whitelisting to synchronization

 

2.2.6.1084 (12/Sep/17)

  • Added transfer job events to events.log
  • Fixed agent getting stuck on consolidation job

 

2.2.5.1083 (11/Sep/17)

  • Improved data integrity control for Distribution job

 

2.2.4.1073 (1/Sep/17)

  • Fixed agent reporting invalid synced status
  • Fixed agents unable to connect sometimes

 

2.2.2.1056 (2/Aug/17)

  • Implemented transfer jobs timeouts
  • Improved Agents handling “out of space” event
  • Other minor and cosmetic fixes and changes

 

2.2.0 (20/Jul/17)

  • NTFS permissions synchronization
  • Files transfer speed optimization

 

2.1.12.1051 (17/Jul/17)

  • Fixed Agent ending in endless merge loop

 

2.1.10.982 (25/May/17)

  • Fixed agent ignoring "No encryption in LAN" setting
  • Fixed Windows agent ignoring "Tracker Mode" setting

 

2.1.9.961 (18/May/17)

  • Fixed file deduplication not working for transfer jobs

 

2.1.7.942 (03/May/17)

  • Fixed saving Agent's DB

 

2.1.6.933 (27/Apr/17)

  • Fixed connectivity issues over UDP protocol

 

2.1.4.920 (18/Apr/17)

  • Optimized Agent processing of numerous jobs
  • Improved Agent handling network changes

 

2.1.3.904 (5/Apr/17)

  • Improved small files transfer speed

 

2.1.2.889 (30/Mar/17)

  • Fixed agent crashing sometimes during indexing

 

2.1.1.876 (16/Mar/17)

  • Fixed files get stuck after Agent upgrade
  • Fixed Agents disconnecting from MC and tracker sometimes

 

2.1.0.868 (07/Mar/17)

Features:

  • Use new version of cipher suite (SHA2)
  • Synchronize POSIX permissions
  • Implemented de-duplication (file copy instead of re-download if agent has file with same hash already)
  • Implemented rolling checksum (synchronization of only changed part of a file)
  • Improved compatibility to different ISPs

 

Bugfixes:

  • Client never reaches speed limit with high bandwidth (100Mbits+)
  • Pre-seeded files on RO peer are not replaced by Sync job
  • Fixed files not synchronizing
  • Agents do not send events to MC after restart
  • Agent does not start on any RPM-based Linux
  • Desktop agents do not connect anywhere in pure IPv6 networks
  • Removed redundant broadcast and multicast discovery requests
  • Agents do not use custom tracker sometimes

 

2.0.14.838 (14/Feb/17)

  • Fixed Agents speed degradation

 

2.0.13.832 (14/Feb/17)

  • Fixed Agents disconnecting sometimes on Linux machines with IPv6 enabled
  • Fixed redundant CPU usage by Agent when synchronizing many copies of the same files

 

2.0.12.813 (06/Feb/17)

  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.0.11.801 (30/Jan/17)

  • Fixed Agent disconnecting from MC after bootstrap token expiration sometimes

 

2.0.10.779 (23/Jan/17)

  • Fixed Agent crashing on invalid path specified in distribution job
  • Optimized Agent traffic

 

2.0.9.776 (18/Jan/17)

  • Improved indexing speed for large number of files
  • Fixed synchronization getting stuck between Agents after upgrade from 1.3.5
  • Fixed Agents preferring WAN connection when LAN connection is available sometimes
  • Minor cosmetic fixes

 

2.0.8.761 (28/Dec/16)

  • Fixed agent not listening port 8888 when API enabled sometimes

 

2.0.7.754 (16/Dec/16)

  • Fixed connectivity issue over NATs

 

2.0.6.751 (15/Dec/16)

  • Fixed crash during large file transfers
  • Added High Availability mode for Tracker servers

 

2.0.5.740 (12/Dec/16)

Bugfixes:

  • Agent crashes while switching to current user and using %HOME% path macro
  • Incorrect files count reported by Agents
  • Agents don't send events after restart
  • Improve communications with Tracker
  • Other minor fixes

 

2.0.3.725 (01/Dec/16)

  • Minor stability fixes

 

2.0.0.718 (18/Nov/16)

Features and improvements

  • Selective Sync RW folders support
  • Mobile devices support
  • Agents real-time status, showing space, memory and CPU usage
  • Dynamic diff, allowing less data to be transferred when files are changed
  • Agents can now keep fully-replicated RO folders by removing files that are absent on RW peer

 

Bugfixes

  • "Known hosts" field is not applied from profile
  • Client does not resolve DNS when connecting to MC for the second time
  • Fix error "Cannot open destination folder" with custom folder location on WinXP

 

1.3.5.700 (07/Jul/16)

  • Added ability to set max_peers in agent config file (use transfer_peers_limit parameter)
  • Apply known hosts to all folders when policy arrives
  • Fix timediff error showing up sometimes when new user logs in
  • Fix agent's listening port randomizing regardless of setting in profile
  • Fix files stopped syncing, messages "missing or broken suffix" show up in logs
  • Fix files get re-downloaded when connection breaks sometimes
  • Fixed agent crashes on Mac

Connect Tracker Server

3.0.454 (23/Feb/2021)

  • Add firewall exception to Windows firewall by default

3.0.454 (30/March/2020)

  • Minor improvements

3.0.356 (08/Oct/2019)

  • Minor improvements

2.6.336 (20/March/2019)

  • Dockerized tracker

 

2.6.336 (15/Feb/2019)

  • Minor improvements

 

2.5.302 (31/Oct/2018)

  • Changed settings storage folder on Windows

2.4.242 (21/June/2018)

  • Fixed update of tracker on Windows

 

2.1.52 (21/Mar/17)

  • Fixed tracker not informing part of the large swarm about new peer arrival
  • Show previous releases

 

2.0.47 (07/Dec/16)

  • Improved NAT traversal

 

2.0.42 (29/Nov/16)

  • Added Resilio icon for Windows version of Tracker

 

2.0.41 (24/Nov/16)

  • Fixed tracker binary path on Windows

 

2.0.39 (16/Nov/16)

  • Fixed tracker non-showing its version in log

 

2.0.38 (16/Nov/16)

  • Added IPv6 support
 

API

2.12.5 (25/June/2021)

  • Added more statistics about Agent: CPU load, synchronization speed, memory consumption and bandwidth scheduler.
  • Fixed documentation in agent approval and license packages
  • Improved documentation about notifications

2.12.4 (07/May/2021)

  • API calls to list and recover the agents which were deleted from MC

2.12.2 (30/March/2021)

  • New call to approve or decline new agents’ connection to MC

2.12.0 (23/Feb/2021)

New

  • New macro in "path" for user to choose the path for a job
  • Change call custom_tracker to trackers
  • Option to pause job runs (apart from Script jobs)
  • Call 'get Agents' shows Agent’s version

Fixed

  • Fixed call 'get Agents' returning an error for agents of old versions

Limited and deprecated

  • Change call custom_tracker to trackers
  • Prevent enabling/disabling Selective Sync for Agents in a job (return error)

2.11.1 (03/Nov/2020)

Upcoming changes: 

  • enabling/disabling selective sync for agents in a saved job will give an error. 

New features: 

  • Create e-mail or webhook notifications through api.
  • Expose "FOLDER_STORAGE_PATH" path in /agent/<id>

 

2.9.3 (28/May/2020)

  • minor fix

2.9.2 (05/May/2020)

  • Fixed bug allowing to create job without agents or groups

2.9.1 (30/March/2020)

  • Add webhook notifications  
  • Configure object storage 
  • Configure jobs with object storage path 
  • Fixed bug allowing to create jobs with same name
  • Add call to know version of MC

2.8.5 (24/Feb/2020)

  • Added call to start folder scan for an Agent

2.8.4 (15/Jan/2020)

  • Fixed creating jobs with same name

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