FileFly 3.0 Release Notes

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.

Important

Licenses 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 notes

Windows 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.

Licensing Changes

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

Community Edition

Added support for community edition licenses

Plugins

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

Admin Portal

added Server Configuration page (it is no longer necessary to directly edit ff_agent.cfg files)

Reporting

added stats reports to task completion notification emails

Clustering

improved time synchronization monitoring

Swarm/Cloudscaler

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

Windows Agent

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

Netapp Fpolicy Server

improved FPolicy screening
fixed 7-mode pipe_not_connected error on Windows Server 2016 installations
Support for Data ONTAP 9.2 and 9.3

Miscellaneous

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