FileFly 2.0 Release Notes

This release of FileFly features Task completion notification and aggregated server statistics, Windows Server DRFS and ReFS integration, and numerous improvements and fixes:

Admin Console

• New: Ability to pause migration during work hours
• New: Auto-updating warnings box
• New: Email notification for serious agent health issues and improved agent health reporting
• New: Task completion notification
• New: Aggregated server statistics
• Updated to JRE 8u74 and Tomcat 8.0.32
• Installation of custom webserver certificate during install
• Replacement of existing webserver certificate during install
• Fixed: Locked/skipped files no longer counted as failures in agent stats
• Fixed: Spurious error during advanced demigrate
• Fixed: Minor URI handling issues

Agent

• TLS connections now support SNI (FFLY-33)
• Updated openssl libraries to 1.0.2h
• Fixed: Locked files were reported as errors during advanced demigrate
• Fixed: TLS client connections were hung

Caringo Swarm and Gateway

• Improved object updates, reducing the number of writes during several operations
• Fixed issue that caused object update 409 conflicts
• Added support for partition names to contain non-ASCII Unicode characters

DrTool

• Various GUI improvements

Microsoft Windows Server

• Added ReFS support
• Added DFS-R support
• Improved Windows NFS Server interoperability
• Improved demigration support, including demigrate on data access rather than on open
• Improved installer, warning if a local administrator rather than a domain administrator account is used
• Clarified Windows OS Service Pack requirements
• Added sha256 signing to binaries ready Microsoft dropping support for sha1 in 2017
• Updated RAM requirements

NetApp Cluster Mode

• Improved reporting of issues with filer connections
• Improved configuration application
• Improved backup support when using read-only backup snapshot