AhsayCBS v8.3.6.30 Release Notes (28-Sep-2020)

This release contains the major features listed below:

Enhancements

Backup Destination

Enhanced OBM/ACB Retry Logic when connection to CBS during backup is broken or timeout (ref: TBZ-495-71317, T-27872)

Application specific backup - Office 365

App-Registration Support - Modern Authentication on Global Region (ref: T-28242)

Replication

Performance Enhancement - Replicate 4 files concurrently for a single backup set (ref: T-26891)

Security

Upgrade Apache Tomcat to 8.3.5.57 - For CBS Vulnerability CVE-2020-13935 (ref: GRQ-944-61696, MCG-744-28747, T-27802)
Enhanced Security Handling of Ahsay-Twilio-MFA (ref: KDZ-418-55992, T-28057)

System maintenance

Performance Enhancement - Check last modified timestamp for OBM storage statistic files, instead of mirroring, to speed up uploading of new log files (ref: T-27939)

User Experiences

Allow selecting multiple items by shift + one-click in Office 365 Backup Source Selection (ref: T-27824)

API

UpdateSysUser.do does not display ERROR, when setting IsFreeTrialOfferAllowed for an ADMIN role account (ref: T-27799)
v6 GetBackupSet.do XML API returns error JSONObject["BackupType"] not a string on CBS v8 (ref: GEL-606-39419, T-27947)

General / Miscellaneous

Change the display message to "You have entered an old password" if the password inputted is the same as the old password in CBS > "Forgot Password" (ref: OXT-333-50051, T-27912)

Restore / Decrypt

Office 365 SharePoint restore encounters "500 Internal Server Error" and makes restore very slow (ref: OPL-824-91860, T-27833)

Application specific backup - Office 365

Office 365 Run on Server Backup cannot start by manual or schedule after upgraded to CBS v8.3.4.42 (ref: FOF-880-87637, HIP-606-55036, WRS-203-43147, T-28072)
Encounter "Backup source does not exist" warning even backed up Office 365 account's data (ref: T-28338)
Encounters "Failed to list sPath.NoHttpResponseException:outlook.office365.com:443 failed to respond" error after upgrade (ref: OHE-627-95743, T-28213)
Office 365 Backupsets counts additional license for users who changed mailboxes to another domain (ref: BEA-623-30236, T-27945)

Operating systems

v8.3.4.42 services are not automatically started after a reboot on Ubuntu 20.04 (ref: JOB-552-85707, NBF-613-42184, T-27984)

System maintenance

CBS logs "Error getting 'free trial option' (or 'the product name') from license" error when service starts (ref: AYS-692-66968, T-28124)

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