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.
ImportantLicenses 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 notesWindows 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. |
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
Added support for community edition licenses
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
added Server Configuration page (it is no longer necessary to directly edit ff_agent.cfg files)
added stats reports to task completion notification emails
improved time synchronization monitoring
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
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
improved FPolicy screening
fixed 7-mode pipe_not_connected error on Windows Server 2016 installations
Support for Data ONTAP 9.2 and 9.3
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