P5 full changelog

1. New user and group administration

In previous versions of P5, the user and password were authenticated by the operating system. As of version 6, authentication takes place against users and passwords stored in the P5 configuration. Therefore passwords must be set within the P5 administration after an upgrade.

The new 'admin' account
If it doesn't already exist, a user named 'admin' with password 'admin' is added following an upgrade to version 6. The login screen prompts to use this account initially. New installations also include this 'admin' user. Logging in as 'admin' allows creation of new users and groups.
Change this default password directly after the update. Within the P5 admin GUI, you can change the password for the current user via the 'P5' menu - top right.


Passwords for existing users
All users already created in version 5.x are still available after updating to version 6. Any username previously used to login will have been added to the user list. Passwords for each of these users should be set by double clicking on the user in the list.


P5 server-client authentication
Since the new user management is also used for P5 client/server connections, any P5 clients that your P5 server connects to will also need to have a password set on the client side, and the client connection setting updated on the server.
Login to the P5 admin GUI on each P5 client using the 'admin' user after upgrade. Select 'Agent Setup' from the 'P5' menu and then 'User Preferences' to the left. Set a password for the user used by the server to connect. Update the client settings on the server to use this new password.

Fixed rename/delete of user-forks for Helios.
Fixed manual archive index purge (Bug#1021).
Allow operator users to stop/start/cancel jobs(Bug#1037).
Disable legacy options for archive preview generators based on Apple QuickTime (Bug#1038).

Fixed mail re-send logic to regenerate temporary files after each try. Also fixed awmail to correctly generate sub-second unique message IDs (Bug#945).
Fixed recognition of filesystem volumes located deeper in the directory structure (Bug#954).
Added new CLI command [RestoreSelection size] which returns total size in bytes of all files in the selection object (FR#950).
Declared CLI [ArchiveSelection size] deprecated, use [ArchiveSelection entries] instead.

Re-introduced FreeBSD/amd64 port for FreeBSD V11.
Deprecated: SCSI device support.
Re-introduced Solaris/Intel port for Solaris 10+.
Deprecated: SCSI device support.

Re-introduced FreeBSD/amd64 port for FreeBSD V11.
Deprecated: SCSI device support.
Re-introduced Solaris/Intel port for Solaris 10+.
Deprecated: SCSI device support.

Fixed issues when logging-in as root into the GUI.
Fixed special characters handling in Sync from Helios (possibly also Xinet) fileserver volumes.
Introduced new network throttle implementation.
Fixed multi-part upload (1GB+ files) for AWS cloud.

Fixed remote update of older (i386) Mac OSX clients.
Fixed handling of volumes to backup containing blanksin their mount points.
Ignore previous configuration of the user-definedmail script; always use our own mail sender(s).
Improved browsing for archive indexes to exclude files located on unknown (recycled) volumes.
Fixed browsing P4 backup index.
Fixed changing index option in P4 backup index.
Fixed file version restore in P4 backup index.
Fixed timing problem with Firefox browser withinrestore option window.
Fixed Windows B2Go client login problem.
Fixed setting old volume to suspect after automaticallyrecycling it during a running job.
Improved Windows installation procedure.
Improved volume import to allow continuation of theimport in case of job error or cancellation.
Volume mode can now be manually re/set to Migrated.
Added compatibility for CLI restores to allow restoringfiles at the original (physical) path if no relocation was requested, as for version 5.1 and below.
Added log traces for per-job activation and completioncallbacks.
Fixed restore relocation for archive jobs on Windows.
Fixed default hint for relocation path for archiverestores in GUI.
Fixed id/path translation for remote archive restores.
Removed UUID (GUID) handling for ZFS filesystems sinceit resulted in occasional duplicates thus yielding two or more different filesystems having the same UUID.
Fixed occasional crashes when restoring from archive.

Fixed remote update of older (i386) Mac OSX clients.
Fixed handling of volumes to backup containing blanksin their mount points.
Ignore previous configuration of the user-definedmail script; always use our own mail sender(s).
Improved browsing for archive indexes to exclude files located on unknown (recycled) volumes.
Fixed browsing P4 backup index.
Fixed changing index option in P4 backup index.
Fixed file version restore in P4 backup index.
Fixed timing problem with Firefox browser withinrestore option window.
Fixed Windows B2Go client login problem.
Fixed setting old volume to suspect after automaticallyrecycling it during a running job.
Improved Windows installation procedure.
Improved volume import to allow continuation of theimport in case of job error or cancellation.
Volume mode can now be manually re/set to Migrated.
Added compatibility for CLI restores to allow restoringfiles at the original (physical) path if no relocation was requested, as for version 5.1 and below.
Added log traces for per-job activation and completioncallbacks.
Fixed restore relocation for archive jobs on Windows.
Fixed default hint for relocation path for archiverestores in GUI.
Fixed id/path translation for remote archive restores.
Removed UUID (GUID) handling for ZFS filesystems sinceit resulted in occasional duplicates thus yielding two or more different filesystems having the same UUID.
Fixed occasional crashes when restoring from archive.

Fixed remote update of older (i386) Mac OSX clients.
Fixed handling of volumes to backup containing blanksin their mount points.
Ignore previous configuration of the user-definedmail script; always use our own mail sender(s).
Improved browsing for archive indexes to exclude files located on unknown (recycled) volumes.
Fixed browsing P4 backup index.
Fixed changing index option in P4 backup index.
Fixed file version restore in P4 backup index.
Fixed timing problem with Firefox browser withinrestore option window.
Fixed Windows B2Go client login problem.
Fixed setting old volume to suspect after automaticallyrecycling it during a running job.
Improved Windows installation procedure.
Improved volume import to allow continuation of theimport in case of job error or cancellation.
Volume mode can now be manually re/set to Migrated.
Added compatibility for CLI restores to allow restoringfiles at the original (physical) path if no relocation was requested, as for version 5.1 and below.
Added log traces for per-job activation and completioncallbacks.
Fixed restore relocation for archive jobs on Windows.
Fixed default hint for relocation path for archiverestores in GUI.
Fixed id/path translation for remote archive restores.
Removed UUID (GUID) handling for ZFS filesystems sinceit resulted in occasional duplicates thus yielding two or more different filesystems having the same UUID.
Fixed occasional crashes when restoring from archive.

Added fixed 3-months job-log inspection interval plus user-defined, up to 3 months interval selector.
Fixed cases in backup when two or more backup plans, some with filters and some not, are saving
the same directory structure.
Fixed UTF-8 and some special characters processing for CLI operations. Currently just the backslashes in pathnames are unsupported.
Expanded standard PATH variable that is passed to callback scripts to include /bin dir on Mac OSX.
Corrected STK library drive serial ID detection.
Rewritten volume import to sequentially read the whole volume, check all blocks and re-index.
Relaxed device-ID requirement when building lookup selection for backups.
Cloud Sync requires WingFS 2.0 release.