Magnus Box version 21.2.0 is now available. We will begin pushing the update to the servers and endpoints on 2/27/2021. We do not expect any downtime with this quarterly feature release.
Changelog
21.2.0 (2021-2-23)
Changes compared to 20.11.1
Feature:
- Restore to original paths
- Support silent install for Magnus Box on macOS
- Support new `/ISLOCALSYSTEM=”yes”` silent installation flag to force the Magnus Box desktop app’s background service to use LOCAL SYSTEM authentication
- Support editing advanced email settings from the Magnus Box desktop app
Enhancements:
- More accurately display current backup job speed, by using a rolling 15s average instead of a whole-job average
- Use orange color for warnings in the Recent Activity page, in the dashboard widgets, in email reports, and in the Magnus Box desktop app
- Detect Linux distro to provide more detailed instructions if the client installer fails to find an installed xz decompressor
- Add optional “next scheduled job” column to Protected Item tables in the Magnus Box web interface
- Support editing existing custom driver, file, folder, and command entries in the USB Recovery Media wizard
- Automatically save and load previous settings for the WinRE USB Recovery Media builder
- Automatically clean up packindex files if a consistency issue is detected, and during reindex operations
- Reduce peak server load in Magnus Box Server by extending the reconnection time window for live device connections
- Minor reduction in memory usage when loading data packs from the Storage Vault
- Reduce memory usage in the Magnus Box desktop app when communicating with the background service
- Reduce memory usage when uploading replacement index files during a Retention Pass
- Reduce memory usage when loading index files from a Storage Vault
- Improve performance of browsing files to restore from the Magnus Box web interface after opening the first directory
- Improve performance when deleting single files from large directories within a past backup job snapshot
- Improve performance when processing Storage Vaults containing a large number of snapshots
- Improve performance of user profile operations if a Storage Vault contains a lot of shared data, by truncating deduplication analysis data
Fixes:
- Fix an issue with “File already closed” error messages when using the Search feature in the Magnus Box desktop app
- Fix a cosmetic issue with job ETA displaying as zero
- Fix an issue with clicking segments of the homepage “Last 24 hours (Status)” chart in the Magnus Box web interface
- Fix an issue with no longer copying header properties from job reports in the Magnus Box web interface
- Fix a cosmetic issue with logged-in user accounts viewing the Download Software button in the Magnus Box web interface
- Fix an issue with peak Magnus Box Server load by further staggering live connected device reconnection timers
