Release notes¶

Current release versions¶

Agent v1.1.20¶

Released on Feb 14, 2025

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve exception handling. (Ticket 1288)

API v1.5.1¶

Released on Jan 30, 2025

Features:

• Added Account resource. (Ticket 1429)
• Added new a nfr field to the Device resource. A device is marked as NFR (Not For Resale) if it is not intended for resale and only used for testing purposes.

Box v1.21.3¶

Released on Feb 13, 2025

Features:

• Add storage reservations to ensure that agent datasets are locked when not in use. (Ticket 1558)
• Add swap to devices. (Ticket 1609)
• Adjust OOM scores to protect vital processes from being killed. (Ticket 1608)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Bug fix for local snapshot reconciliation. (Ticket 1536)
• Create dataset on agent pairing. (Ticket 1485)
• Update dataset permissions. (Ticket 1631)

Console v1.5.0¶

Released on Feb 12, 2025

Features:

• Advanced Cloud Networking (initial feature-flagged release, Tickets 1398, 1646)
• Dark mode (No ticket)
• Custom column selection on Protected Systems page (No ticket)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Storage server selection improvements (Ticket 1619)
• Fix issues with backup reconciliation (Ticket 1665)

Older releases¶

Console v1.4.9¶

Released on Jan 25, 2025

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fixed a problem displaying some alert slide out drawers.

Console v1.4.8¶

Released on Jan 23, 2025

Features:

• Display Slide Box and Agent MAC addresses. (Ticket 1488)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix phone number in FAQ.

Agent v1.1.17¶

Released on Jan 21, 2025

Features:

• Report Slide Agent MAC addresses, and public IP address, to Cloud & Console. (Ticket 1488)

API v1.5.0¶

Released on Jan 21, 2025

Features:

• Added addresses to Agent and Device resources. This is an improved network interface format, including MAC addresses. (Ticket 1488)
• Deprecated ip_addresses in Agent and Device resources. Support for this field will be dropped entirely in a future release.
• Added new a BootTime field to the Device resource. (Ticket 1586)
• Added new fields to the Agent resource: BootTime, OS, OSVersion, Manufacturer, FirmwareType, and EncryptionAlgorithm. (Ticket 1586)

Box v1.20.0¶

Released on Jan 21, 2025

Features:

• Report box MAC addresses to Cloud & Console. (Ticket 1488)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix long device reboots. (Ticket 1574)
• Fix box virt create command.

Agent v1.1.15¶

Released on Jan 13, 2025

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fixed driver upgrade problem for Windows Server 2016 and 2019

API v1.4.0¶

Released on Jan 2, 2025

Features:

• Added support for clients. New API endpoints for creating (POST /v1/client), updating (PATCH /v1/client/{client_id}), and deleting (DELETE /v1/client/{client_id}) clients are now available. Slide Boxes can be assigned to clients using the PATCH /v1/device/{device_id} endpoint. (Ticket 128)
• Added filters for clients on device (GET /v1/device?client_id={client_id}) and agent (GET /v1/agent?client_id={client_id}) endpoints. (Ticket 128)
• Added client_id to the device and agent structures. (Ticket 128)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Added hardware_model_name, service_model_name, and service_status to the device structure.
• Added error_message to the backup structure. This is a human-readable error message associated with the error_code.

Box v1.19.2¶

Released on Jan 9, 2025

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Log device reboots
• Update “test” VM shutdown/expiry times to 3 days + 2 weeks (Ticket 1483)
• Fix file and image export restores of 4K native drives (Ticket 1357)
• Always use virtio driver for protected systems with 4K native disks (Ticket 1357)
• Add box hostname to /etc/hosts file (Ticket 1532)
• Fix log field key for device mode (Ticket 1517)
• Make virtio the default storage driver (Ticket 1550)
• Add virtio to the list of boot mods for boot verifications (Ticket 1550)

Console v1.4.4¶

Released on Jan 16, 2025

Features:

• Add visual indicator for NFR (Not For Resale) devices
• Add support for configuring account wide email destinations for alerts. This allows you to send alerts to arbitrary email addresses (Ticket 1429)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Reorder items on the left navigation bar (Ticket 1542)
• Remove no longer needed documentation

Console v1.4.2¶

Released on Jan 10, 2025

Features:

• Add a red dot to indicate to the user that they should go to the quote page when a new quote is available (Ticket 1461)
• Add orders page (Ticket 1275)
• Add ability to filter snapshots by client

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update contact information
• Add initial amount to quote; move reject button; add payment methods button (Tickets 1318 and 1471)
• Update error handling for agent deletion
• Update agent deletion for agents that have not taken a backup (Ticket 1548)
• Update button and link in Quote Accepted email (Ticket 1275)
• Fix email display on iMail (Ticket 1287)
• Update display of restores to differentiate by type
• Set virtio as the default storage driver for virtualization restores (Ticket 1550)

Agent v1.1.14¶

Released on Jan 9, 2025

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Added support for 4kn drives (Ticket 1357)
• Increase timeout for VSS snapshot creation for slow agent machines
• Fix accuracy of progress bar for backup display
• Fix an errant buffer allocation
• Added info command line option

Console v1.4.1¶

Released on Jan 2, 2025

Features:

• Cancellations 25 days in past, send Scheduled Data Deletion email (Ticket 1186)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Small fixes to quote accept modal
• Properly sum hardware product quantities for validation

Console v1.4.0¶

Released on Jan 2, 2025

Features:

• Added support for clients. Clients can be created and Slide Boxes (plus their paired agents) can be assigned to clients. Clients give customers the ability to logically group resources together. More features around clients will be added in the future, stay tuned! (Ticket 128)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Increase Slide Box service activation grace period to 30 days (from 10). Slide Boxes will activate their service on first power on or when this grace period is over. (Ticket 1484)
• Updated the networking documentation to reflect the latest IP ranges and requirements.

Console v1.3.3¶

Released on Dec 20, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Auto-resolve agent backup failed alerts (Ticket 1435)
• Many KB, documentation, and networking docs updates
• Highlight row in lists when three-dot menu is opened (Ticket 867)
• Add MB/s to Slide Box data throttling labels
• Add "Purpose" dropdown in virt creation modal to distinguish between Disaster and Test VMs (Ticket 1483)
• Protected Systems page filters have overlapping text (Ticket 1290)
• Improve usability of deletion dialogs and require user confirmation for data deletions (Ticket 868)
• Display Slide Box service status on the list page, and gracefully handle when service is canceled (Ticket 1159)
• Auto resolve additional alerts, which includes: Slide Box version out of date, Slide Box not checking in, Slide Box storage low, missed backup, and failed backup (Ticket 1317)

Box v1.19.0¶

Released on Dec 13, 2024

Features:

• Add a watchdog that will detect device lockups and automatically reboot the device, if detected (Ticket 1230)

Agent v1.1.13¶

Released on Dec 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix a problem misidentifying MBR/GPT partition schemes if there are both a valid MBR and GPT partition table.

Agent v1.1.11¶

Released on Dec 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Change to free a VSS resource at a more appropriate time

Box v1.14.12¶

Released on Dec 11, 2024

Features:

• Prune old non-successful backup records after 30 days (Ticket 731)

Agent v1.1.10¶

Released on Dec 10, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Kernel driver 1.4.0.0 to pick up incremental changes in the shadow copy from the previous backup (Ticket 1365)
• Update file exclusion of OS cache files during backups (Ticket 622)

Console v1.3.1¶

Released on Dev 04, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Documentation updates
• Minor UI improvements

Box v1.14.11¶

Released on Dec 03, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Enable backup retries to be more resilient (Tickets 1213, Ticket 1413)

Box v1.14.9¶

Released on Dec 03, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix boot verification for readonly file system (Ticket 1417)

Agent v1.1.9¶

Released on Dec 02, 2024

Features:

• Added support for extended partitions (Ticket 1280)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Added additional validation checks for backup correctness.

Box v1.14.8¶

Released on Dec 02, 2024

Features:

• Added support for extended partitions (Ticket 1280)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix serialization problem with image restores

API v1.3.0¶

Released on Nov 27, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Add resolved_at and resolved_by to alert structure (Ticket 1022)
• Breaking change: Changes to date-time fields naming (e.g. created -> created_at)

Console v1.3.0¶

Released on Nov 27, 2024

Features:

• Auto-resolve alerts (Ticket 1022)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Do not send "device out of date" alert unless device online for >24h (Ticket 1317)

Box v1.14.6¶

Released on Nov 25, 2024

Features:

• Add service status to box and disable features when canceled (Ticket 1159)
• Add retries to backup process (Ticket 1300)
• Send backup cancel request to cloud on cancellation (Ticket 1245)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve backup cancellation (Ticket 1213)
• Fix timing backup bug that could caused backups to hang (Ticket 1272)
• Filter stale backups from upgrade (Ticket 1272)
• Improve symlink support in file restores (Ticket 831)

Agent v1.1.8¶

Released on Nov 25, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update handling of backup cancellation (Ticket 1213)
• Fix some bad logging fields

Console v1.2.5¶

Released on Nov 25, 2024

Features:

• Show granular backup states and cancellation (Ticket 1245)
• Add has payment method check (Ticket 1273)
• Add service status to box and disable features when canceled (Ticket 1159)
• Add 5 day scheduled cancellation reminder email (Ticket 1200)
• Send Canceled email (Ticket 1198)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix image export and file restore browsers when you don't have edit permissions (Ticket 1375)
• Fix bug where changing any agent settings results in backup paused being set to an arbitrary time in the future (Ticket 1341)
• Improve symlink support in file restores (Ticket 831)
• Add quote metadata when accepting and fix pdf race condition (Ticket 1276)
• Store backup retry errors (Ticket 1300)

Agent v1.1.7¶

Released on Nov 21, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fixed COM security initialization (Ticket 1387)

Agent v1.1.6¶

Released on Nov 21, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Release VSS writer metadata correctly
• Ensure GatherWriterMetadata is called only once
• More retry backoffs and more logging
• Fixing todos in CBT and improve testing
• Backup NTFS boot sector to backup boot sector location (Ticket 1353)
• Log Windows events concerning Slide Agent service (Ticket 1348)
• Tray app runs but isn't visible on W11 after rebooting (Ticket 1359)

Agent v1.1.5¶

Released on Nov 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Enable shutdown tracking, persist incremental support through reboots/unmounts
• Missing volumes aren't always handled correctly, and report as successful full backups
• Fix problem deleting shadow copy set.
• SlideCBT driver version 1.3 includes support for Windows Server 2016
• Fixed installer and uninstaller issues on Windows Server 2016 and 2019.
• Added Agent Watcher service.
• Purge old CBT change sets when a non-incremental backup is completed.

Console v1.2.4¶

Released on Nov 11, 2024

Features:

• List subscriptions (Ticket 1198)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Documentation improvements
• Improvements to Stripe integration (Ticket 1198)

Box v1.14.1¶

Released on Nov 11, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Only attempt to unlock encrypted agent datasets once on box start (Ticket 1265)
• Fix boot modification injections (Ticket 1295)
• Update log levels for noisy logs (Ticket 1175)
• Update imaging process
• Add diagnostics (Ticket 1217)

Console v1.2.3¶

Released on Nov 6, 2024

Features:

• Support for cancelling subscriptions (Ticket 16)
• Notification after email change to old email (Ticket 833)
• New Slide Box asset

Console v1.2.2¶

Released on Nov 4, 2024

Features:

• Display "Box out of date" alert (Ticket 776)
• Order shipping email error rendering (Ticket 1191)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Storage graph legend text can appear clipped
• Show informational status instead of warnings immediately after agent pairing
• Documentation language updates

Agent v1.1.4¶

Released on Oct 30, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Added debug logging around disappearing VSS volumes, logging vss writers and shadow storage information
• SlideCBT driver version 1.2 includes greater compatibility with Windows Server 2019 and 2022.
• Add /X to installer command line options to set up for staging

Console v1.2.1¶

Released on Oct 29, 2024

Features:

• Send internal weekly reports on cloud storage usage (Ticket 1157)
• Send order fulfilled email (Ticket 1259)
• Add VSS file no longer available backup error (Ticket 1169)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Do not send shutdown and destruction emails for virtualizations for verifications
• Fix the pair code not found error message (Ticket 1271)
• Delete the agent passphrase during agent purge (Ticket 1264)
• Fix invoice
• Rename "Retention Policy" to "Local Retention Policy" on protected systems settings drawer (Ticket 1263)
• Show cloud retention policy on protected systems drawer
• Update Data Throttling units to be Mb/s
• Rename "Unpaused" to "Active" for alert silencing settings
• Add documentation links

Box v1.11.8¶

Released on Oct 25, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Ensure virt purpose is set

Agent v1.1.3¶

Released on Oct 23, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix for agent uninstaller crashing right before it completes
• Fix for server 2022 bluescreen after uninstall.

API v1.1.2¶

Released on Oct 22, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Move API documentation to a new location

Agent v1.1.2¶

Released on Oct 16, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• CBT Driver binaries now attestation-signed (Ticket 1093)
• Fixed tray menu item actions being incorrectly triggered

Console v1.2.0¶

Released on Oct 25, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Dashboard performance improvements (Ticket 1131)
• Billing page improvements: invoices, quotes, subscriptions (Ticket 13,, 1189)
• Virt automatic shutdown emails (Ticket 520)
• Do not run retention on unpaired agents (Ticket 1174)
• Disallow editing your own user (Ticket 1001)
• Update contact pages (Ticket 1203)

Box v1.11.7¶

Released on Oct 21, 2024

Features:

• Shut down and destroy virts when timers are met (Ticket 520)

Console v1.1.1¶

Released on Oct 21, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix bug with unsaved changes in device drawer disappearing before being saved (Tickets 1228, 1229)

API v1.1.0¶

Released on Sep 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve CI/CD pipeline speed

Console v1.1.0¶

Released on Oct 18, 2024

Features:

• Create one-time hardware invoice (Ticket 1152)
• Separate retention rates between local and cloud (Ticket 1155)
• Update device's service instance scheduled activation time on first checkin (Ticket 1192)
• Send a "service activated" email when a device's service has been activated
• Show service instance and retention policy on console (Ticket 1234)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update quote acceptance (Ticket 1152)
• Do not run retention on unpaired agents (Ticket 1174)
• Do not allow users to edit/delete themselves (Ticket 1001)
• Fix backup scheduling bug (Ticket 1166)
• Display more data on hardware QR link
• Update backups, retention and supported platforms documentation

Box v1.11.6¶

Released on Oct 17, 2024

Features:

• Incremental backups are preferred by default (Ticket 1078)

Console v1.0.5¶

Released on Oct 11, 2024

Features:

• Add shipping name when accepting quote
• Attach quote PDF to emails (Ticket 1188)
• Show open quotes only in console (Ticket 1194)
• Update quote accept workflow (Ticket 1152)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve console responsiveness (Ticket 1182)
• Update device provisioned text (Ticket 1197)
• Fixed pairing model closing while in use (Ticket 694)
• Show "Replication scheduled" (blue) if replication < 2h behind (Ticket 1183)

Box v1.11.5¶

Released on Oct 10, 2024

Features:

• New agents will be encrypted by default (Ticket 1204)

Agent v1.0.6¶

Released on Oct 9, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• CBT Driver update to v1.1.0.0 which includes fix for running on older versions of windows (server 2019 and older)

Agent v1.0.5¶

Released on Oct 4, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve boot verification accuracy

Box v1.11.1¶

Released on Oct 4, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Set timezone on restores to the timezone of the protected systems (Ticket 945)
• Improve boot verification accuracy

Agent v1.0.4¶

Released on Oct 3, 2024

Features:

• Invalidate incremental tracking info on major Windows Updates (Ticket 972)
• Revert shutdown tracking (Ticket 966)

Box v1.11.0¶

Released on Oct 3, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix bug with libvirt network creation

Console v1.0.3¶

Released on Oct 2, 2024

Features:

• Add support for libvirt dynamic network creation (Ticket 968)
• Update the accept quote modal to include shipping address

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve console responsiveness

Box v1.10.5¶

Released on Oct 2, 2024

Features:

• Dynamically create libvirt networks on startup and ensure there are no conflicts with existing networks (Ticket 968)

Agent v1.0.3¶

Released on Oct 1, 2024

Features:

• Exclude change file directories from Windows deduplication / defrag (Ticket 967)
• Enable shutdown tracking (Ticket 966)

Box v1.10.4¶

Released on Oct 1, 2024

Features:

• Unlock encrypted agent datasets on box process start (Ticket 1073)
• Provide encryption algorithm to be displayed on console (Ticket 1079)
• Unlock locked, encrypted agents on restore

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Only reconcile verifications for boxes

Console v1.0.2¶

Released on Oct 1, 2024

Features:

• Show encryption algorithm on agent drawer (Ticket 1079)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update User and API docs
• Improve console responsiveness

Agent v1.0.2¶

Released on Sep 27, 2024

Features:

• Determine if driver is loaded and running to display status on console (Ticket 1013)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Rename log files (Ticket 1090)
• Remove agent directories on uninstall (Ticket 969)

Console v1.0.1¶

Released on Sep 27, 2024

Features:

• Display backup type on protected systems drawer (Ticket 1076)
• Display a reboot icon next to protected system names for protected systems that require a reboot (Ticket 1013)
• Display diff merge reason for diff merge backups
• Add billing address (Ticket 1144)
• Support sales orders
• Create order based on quoted hardware products (Ticket 1152)
• Send email to account owners when quote is created
• Send email when quote is accepted (Ticket 1086)
• Create slide agent key on agent pairing (Ticket 1069)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve drawer UX (Ticket 1047)
• Improve console responsiveness
• Update account permissions
• Fix email urls
• Fix console update bug

Box v1.10.3¶

Released on Sep 26, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve storage encryption key handling (Ticket 1071)

Box v1.10.2¶

Released on Sep 25, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Ensure storage pool is imported on box process start

Box v1.10.1¶

Released on Sep 24, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix log shipping connection

Box v1.10.0¶

Released on Sep 24, 2024

Features:

• Add configuration to limit replication upload speed (Ticket 690)
• Encrypt agent datasets when created (feature flagged, off by default) (Ticket 1070)
• Add encrypted, locked, and mounted fields to agent list command (Ticket 1140)
• Replicate encrypted agent datasets (Ticket 1072)

Agent v1.0.0¶

Released on Sep 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve CI/CD pipeline speed

Box v1.8.1¶

Released on Sep 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve CI/CD pipeline speed

Box v1.7.0¶

Released on Sep 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update keyrings

Console v1.0.0¶

Released on Sep 12, 2024

Features:

• Add support for agent encryption keys
• Add support for notification emails from different environments

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve CI/CD pipeline speed

Agent v0.2.64¶

Released on Sep 10, 2024

Features:

• Introduce --env and --ca-set flag to switch environments (Ticket 1052)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Move all existing agents to staging env

Box v1.1.1¶

Released on Sep 10, 2024

Features:

• Add network mode config
• Introduce --env and --ca-set flag to switch environments (Ticket 1052)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Add timeout to upgrader-upgrader
• Move all existing devices to staging env
• Fix VSS snapshot timeout (Ticket 1009)

Console v0.1.143¶

Released on Sep 10, 2024

Features:

• Add device replication throttling config (Ticket 690)
• Introduce --env and --ca-set flag to switch environments (Ticket 1052)
• Add API token management to console

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Prettify mounted folder paths in volumes list
• Do not remove verifications in last 10 backups (Ticket 941)

API v1.0.0¶

Released on Sep 10, 2024

Features:

• Add virt create, get by id, update, and delete endpoints
• Add rate limiting
• Add verify boot screenshot url
• Cache auth

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Introduce --env and --ca-set flag to switch environments

Agent v0.2.62¶

Released on Sep 9, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Renamed Agent to SlideAgent
• Better error detail reporting to console for incremental related errors
• Fixed issue with tracking incremental changes on new volumes

Box v1.1.0¶

Released on Sep 3, 2024

Features:

• Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 (Ticket 1007)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix screenshots with Ubuntu 24.04 (Ticket 1007)
• Fix agent transfer start timeout (Ticket 1031)

Console v0.1.142¶

Released on Aug 30, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve websocket behavior

Box v0.8.3¶

Released on Aug 29, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Replicate sender creates an additional stream for the purpose of sending replicate data (Ticket 825)
• Add pagination to file restore and image export browse requests

Console v0.1.141¶

Released on Aug 29, 2024

Features:

• Shows quotes section on the billing page
• Allow accepting and rejecting quotes
• Add listing and downloading quotes

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix drawer scrolling (Ticket 870)

API v0.0.6¶

Released on Aug 29, 2024

Features:

• Add user and alert endpoints
• Add backup start endpoint
• Add image export get by id, create, delete, browse endpoints
• Add file restore get by id, create, delete, and browse endpoints

Console v0.1.140¶

Released on Aug 26, 2024

Features:

• Show billing subscriptions (Ticket 14)

API v0.0.5¶

Released on Aug 26, 2024

Features:

• Return public facing error codes
• Add restore endpoints
• Set content-type

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Switch agent/device update to a PATCH request
• Rename public error codes

API v0.0.4¶

Released on Aug 23, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve documentation

API v0.0.3¶

Released on Aug 23, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve agent, device, backup, and snapshot data on GET requests

API v0.0.2¶

Released on Aug 22, 2024

Features:

• Return appropriate HTTP response codes
• Add ability to retrieve agents

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve error handling

API v0.0.1¶

Released on Aug 22, 2024

Features:

• Initial public facing API

Box v0.8.2¶

Released on Aug 16, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Backup performance improvements (Ticket 880)
• Backup robustness improvements (Ticket 971)
• Rollback storage on incremental backup failure (Ticket 306)

Console v0.1.138¶

Released on Aug 16, 2024

Features:

• Billing integration (Ticket 18)
• Add Billing portal link (Tickets 960, 980)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Release management improvements (Tickets 975, 976, 977)

Agent v0.2.59¶

Released on August 16, 2024

Features:

• Change block tracking (CBT) driver installation (Ticket 781)
• Add CBT change file processing (Ticket 782)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Backup performance improvements (Tickets 826, 880)
• Backup robustness improvements (Ticket 971)
• Fix VSS access denied error on backup (Ticket 849)
• Update handling of VSS snapshots (Tickets 884, 885, 781)

Console v0.1.137¶

Released on Aug 13, 2024

Features:

• Add confirmation dialog to snapshot deletion drawer buttons (Ticket 863)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve alert silencing UX (Ticket 881)
• Alert improvements (Ticket 816)
• Improve Box naming consistency

Agent v0.2.58¶

Released on August 13, 2024

Features:

• Continued work on incremental backups

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Significant improvement to speeds of differential backups (Ticket 826)

Box v0.8.1¶

Released on Aug 12, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve image export download speeds
• Significant improvement to speeds of differential backups (Ticket 826)

Console v0.1.136¶

Released on Aug 5, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Image export improvements in UX and accessing over SMB

Console v0.1.135¶

Released on Aug 5, 2024

Features:

• Add available and total memory to VM create dialog (Ticket 844)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix logo to link back to console.slide.tech correctly (Ticket 830)

Agent v0.2.57¶

Released on July 26, 2024

Features:

• Add Agent EULA (Ticket 730)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix Agent tray icon
• Fix agent install completion not being obvious (Ticket 766)
• Use correct location on disk for backup up NTFS backup boot sector

Box v0.8.0¶

Released on Aug 7, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix virt bug found in v0.7.5

Box v0.7.5¶

Released on Aug 5, 2024

Features:

• Image export over SMB

Box v0.7.4¶

Released on Aug 5, 2024

Features:

• Push CPU count / load and memory available / total periodically to cloud (Ticket 844)

Console v0.1.134¶

Released on Aug 2, 2024

Features:

• Show boot verification screenshots in Console

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update display of last 10 backups to include filesystem verification results
• Rename "Scheduled backup did not run as planned" alert to "Missed Scheduled Backup" (Ticket 879)
• Rename Snapshot filters to "Backups Taken After" and "Backups Taken Before" (Ticket 866)
• Reorder Protected Systems and Slide Boxes in left navigation bar (Ticket 859)

Box v0.7.3¶

Released on July 26, 2024

Features:

• Run boot verification on a schedule (Ticket 787)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Suspend backup schedule until first backup is complete (Ticket 804)
• Fix boot modification for Windows systems with different file capitalizations (Ticket 802)

Console v0.1.133¶

Released on July 26, 2024

Features:

• Add instant dynamic vhdx to image export restore options (Ticket 660)
• Add Advanced tab to image export creation (Ticket 747)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Update UX responsiveness for data refreshes (Ticket 684)
• More context was added to alerts, along with updated content (Ticket 739)
• Miscellaneous alert refinements (Ticket 701)
• Partner facing user improvements
• Add alert time to alert popup (Ticket 792)

Docs:

• Add note about first backups
• Add links to specific doc anchors for known backup errors

Console v0.1.132¶

Released on July 18, 2024

Features:

• Add Users page to manage account users (Ticket 781)
• Add ability to silence alerts (Ticket 783)
• Show backup error codes in console (Ticket 797)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix bug with setting / resetting backup schedules (Ticket 774)

Agent v0.2.56¶

Released on July 24, 2024

Features:

• Boot verification improvements (Ticket 787)

Box v0.7.0¶

Released on July 19, 2024

This was an imaged based update.

Features:

• Boot verification improvements (Ticket 787)
• Add boot modification to image exports (Ticket 747)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• "Backup Now" button no longer hangs if box is connected and agent is not (Ticket 803)

Box v0.6.8¶

Released on July 16, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix timeout for box CLI commands
• Add spanning tree protocol setting to allow multiple NICs on same network

Agent v0.2.55¶

Released on July 17, 2024

Features:

• Add boot verification to agent (Ticket 787)
• Send backup data messages over backup data stream (Ticket 92)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Add API version exchange between client / server endpoints
• Check for 2GB free space as a pre-installation check (Ticket 750)

Console v0.1.131¶

Released on July 11, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve file restore browser (Ticket 679)
• Store selected file path in URL and browser history, allowing for forward/back buttons to function as expected
• Allow downloading multiple files at once (files will be zipped together)
• Clicking a directory opens it
• Clicking a file does nothing
• Show a download and copy URL button in list when hovering over a file
• Add a settings (3 dot) menu in the list with options to download via box or download via cloud proxy
• Add a generic download option that intelligently selects between downloading via box or cloud proxy, depending on if the box is reachable

Console v0.1.130¶

Released on July 11, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Make dashboard unseen alert card clickable (Ticket 776)
• Remove sort from modified time in file browser (Ticket 740)
• Prevent verify FS results from being deleted when the snapshot still exists on BIC
• Hole punching is now included in backup progress (Ticket 757)
• Alerting updates (Ticket 753)
• Don't generate alert for backup already running.
• Don't generate alert unless there have been no backup attempts at all.
• Improve UX for reasons why a snapshot cannot be destroyed

Box v0.6.7¶

Released on July 10, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Set foundation for configurable backup types (differential, incremental, etc.) (Ticket 616)
• Enable backup data to be transferred over a separate data channel (Ticket 92)
• This change makes it so that even if the box is behind, snapshots that haven't been replicated can be deleted. If a snapshot is flagged as daily, weekly, etc., and it hasn't been replicated, then it will still be protected and not deleted. If the snapshot has an active restore, it will not be deleted. (Ticket 742)

Box v0.6.6¶

Released on July 3, 2024

This was an imaged based update to ensure that OpenSSH packages were updated to the latest, fixed version.

Security fixes:

• Resolve CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion)
• cve.org
• Ubuntu

Console v0.1.129¶

Released on July 3, 2024

Docs:

• Update Account/Alerting page
• Update Restores page to include VM advanced settings and common issues (Login with Windows Hello)
• Update Snapshots page to include info about the fields shown, restoring, and deleting
• Update Backups page to include info about the process, common errors, and troubleshooting

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix issue where VM would be displayed as powered off immediately after creation (Ticket 775)
• Fix issue where the VM preview would not load immediately after creation (Ticket 775)
• Show a replication progress bar instead of an indeterminate spinner (Ticket 767)
• Incorporate backup post-processing in progress bar (Ticket 777)

Agent v0.2.53¶

Released on July 2, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• VSS improvements and retries in the event of failure (Ticket 778 (Partially Resolved))
• Retry backup messages on failures / timeouts (Ticket 778 (Partially Resolved))
• Store backup post-processing progress (Ticket 777)

Box v0.6.5¶

Released on July 2, 2024

• Store total size of replication (Ticket 767)
• Store backup post-processing progress (Ticket 777)

Bug fixes + maintenance:

Box v0.6.4¶

Released on June 27, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Fix issue with VM power state being initially incorrect. In console, newly created VMs should now correctly be displayed as powered on and the preview should load.

Console v0.1.124¶

Released on June 26, 2024

Docs:

• Update Account page
• Update release notes

Box v0.6.3¶

Released on June 26, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Retry backup messages on failures / timeouts
• Replication updates (Ticket 765)
• Disable memory integrity checking for drivers when restoring virts (Tickets 93, 27, and 779)
• Add network model configuration for virt creation

Console v0.1.123¶

Released on June 25, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Hide completed backup fields if in progress
• Hide end time and duration for in progress backups

Docs:

• Beta Guide updates

Box v0.6.2¶

Released on June 21, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Improve restore workflows (Ticket 727)
• Fix replication when in partially complete state

Agent v0.2.52¶

Released on June 20, 2024

Bug fixes + maintenance:

• Increase Agent to Box backup message timeouts