FileFly 3.0 Release Notes

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Last updated: Apr 14, 2022 by Kyle Miller (Deactivated)
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The 3.0 release of FileFly features an improved, non-expiring licensing system, includes three new popular plugins, and adds support for the new Community Edition.

Important

Licenses for previous versions do not work with FileFly 3.0, and newly created 3.0 licenses do not work with previous versions of FileFly.

Upgrade notes

Windows Migration Agents — Policy execution is suspended on Windows migration agents until they are restarted (client demigration continues to function as normal during this period) upon upgrading to this version.

NetApp FPolicy Servers (Cluster-Mode) — To benefit from improved FPolicy screening, configuration should be re-applied to NetApp Filers via the FileFly NetApp Cluster-mode Config tool's "Vservers" tab.

Licensing Changes

  • Licenses for previous versions are NOT compatible with 3.0 software

  • Newly created licenses are NOT compatible with previous versions of the software

  • Software no longer expires at a set date

  • Global Licensing Service, provides:

    • Online enforcement

    • Automatic push of updated licenses

  • Licensed capacity quota measured by amount of data migrated

  • Licenses are no longer locked-down to specific Swarm clusters

Community Edition

  • Added support for community edition licenses

Plugins

  • S3: added Caringo FileFly Amazon S3 Plugin

    • fixed S3 Config not allowing bucket options to be cleared

    • fixed licensing for S3 Reduced Redundancy feature

    • fixed potential page fault during shutdown

    • at-rest encryption is no longer mandatory

  • Azure: added Caringo FileFly Azure Plugin

    • at-rest encryption is no longer mandatory

  • Google: added Caringo FileFly Google Plugin

    • at-rest encryption is no longer mandatory

Admin Portal

  • added Server Configuration page (it is no longer necessary to directly edit ff_agent.cfg files)

Reporting

  • added stats reports to task completion notification emails

Clustering

  • improved time synchronization monitoring

Swarm/Cloudscaler

  • improved reporting of errors from the storage device

  • fixed spurious 'uncombined error' log messages when migrating files of unknown mimetypes [see EXPSUP-21]

  • bugfix for ERR_ADD_INVALID_PARAMETER in DeleteSecondaryStream

  • 'Include metadata HTTP headers' and 'Include Content-Disposition' options enabled by default for new configurations

Windows Agent

  • per-volume delete-tracking configuration

  • improved policy demigration

  • improved Windows Defender interoperability

  • fixed locking issue following some demigration failures

  • fixed rare race conditions which can cause crash or hang

Netapp Fpolicy Server

  • improved FPolicy screening

  • fixed 7-mode pipe_not_connected error on Windows Server 2016 installations

  • Support for Data ONTAP 9.2 and 9.3

Miscellaneous

  • various GUI improvements for plugin config tools

  • improved error handling

  • improved timestamp handling

  • improved URI validation

  • improved email address validation

  • Bugfix for HA resolution issue

  • various error handling improvements

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