Full releasenotes
New: added basic Server 2025 support
- All backup types, restores, and BMR recoveries are confirmed, including Exchange, SQL, and Hyper-V scenarios. CryptoSafeGuard and Cyber Black Box are also confirmed.
- Note that Exchange EGR on Server 2025 is not yet fully confirmed, though it seems most functionality is working.
New System Protection:
- Improve error message when the destination volume is sparse
- Include a new warning BA6127 if automount is disabled and the backup fails
- Improve stability through file copy retries where possible
- Use fallback file system traversal when NTFS errors occur (also when using Legacy System Protection)
- Avoid infinite retries when write errors reoccur in early stages of reopening a vhd file
- Fix regression since 14.0.1, where non-critical deduplication volumes are automatically added to every BMR backup with VSS applications selected, even if they are not necessary or selected
Other backup types:
- All backup types: Improve VSS warnings to indicate when the VSS writers are unstable. This could happen if the backup process is killed after VSS writers have become involved in a backup
- Cloud Backup: Fix rare issue “Only one asynchronous reader is allowed time at one time” that could theoretically affect Cloud Backups on some multi-core machines
- Cloud Backup: Fix “WebException” issues reported on rare installs of Cloud Backups caused by incorrect handling of some reparse points
- Legacy System Protection: New jobs using Data Container will only use VHDX format in all cases
- Network backups: Avoid retrying network writes and eventual timeouts if the destination becomes full
Restores and Test Restores:
- Fix the workflow for Cloud Backup restores when the access keys used for backup have subsequently changed
- Fixed Hyper-V Granular Restore for backups on a different machine from where the backup was taken
- Show a warning message if Hyper-V Granular restores are attempted from an unsupported dynamic disk
- Avoid having CryptoSafeGuard Shield lock the whole destination drive during Test Restore of New System Protection backups
Exchange Granular Restore tool:
- Added support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU14
- Fixed a bug where Shared and Resource mailboxes were being restored into the Public Folder tree instead of their original mailboxes
- Fixed a bug where enabling Debug logging didn’t take effect until the program was restarted
General/Installer/Reporting:
- Fix email/SMTP regressions introduced in 14.0.2:
- Pre-existing Email Server settings would be disabled upon upgrade (needed to be manually re-enabled only)
- Mail settings UI could fail with an InvalidArgument exception if no non-standard browser was installed
- Fixed SMTP email sending errors caused by DNS bugs in library
- SMTP Server port field was not editable in some languages
- Fixed UI regression in 14.0.2 for some languages
- Added modern email authentication support for personal accounts (eg. outlook.com)
- Fixed FileLoadException when running vm-instant-boot.exe from a network path
- Avoid hanging the console UI if a configured global network path is not reachable
- Avoid showing a “Details” link in reports where there aren’t any extra details in a reporting section
- Rename BA Prerequisite for Microsoft.Net so it doesn’t still show BackupAssist v12
- Avoid installation of obsolete RealSCSI component, which has been seen to flood the logs with unnecessary messages
- In a very rare circumstance, the BackupAssist Service would be unable to continue, and would fail upon restarting. This has been fixed so that restarting in this scenario is now possible.
- Fix the Export Settings that is failing on some machines due to a fault in JobService logic. The issue is silent, and causes the exported settings to fail imports on other machines
- Fix cases where a potential ransomware has been detected but no banner is shown
- Allow SMTP configurations that do not follow the de-facto standards for ports, eg. using port 465 or 587 without server support for SSL/TLS
- Avoid showing irrelevant drive encryption warning in the Discover Backups UI
- Fix rare cases where the duration of a backup is incorrectly shown with “< 1 second” in the report list
