Client Software Release Notes
Release 1.7.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Migrated email server settings to the new database format
- Updated the email server import/export utility to increase security and be backwards compatible
Release 1.6.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added a Windows service to automate background tasks
- Migrated software update features from the app to the background service
- Performed additional software update testing for the background Windows service
Release 1.5.1---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed a bug when reporting software upgrades, downgrades, and failures
- Fixed a read/write issue with database
Release 1.5.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added a new logging feature in the application settings area
- Added a client database to store software configuration settings
- Added a reset button to allow a user to force an automatic software update check
- Added the ability for a user to set the log size for My Backup Assistant in application settings
- Added more logging entries for software upgrades, downgrades, and failures
- Added software update features to the 'automatic update' type for daily, weekly, and monthly selections
- Removed all release notes prior to version 1.1.0 to clean up the output
- Fixed a few on-start message boxes from disappearing behind the splash screen
- Fixed a licensing bug that restricted use of the software for valid users
- Fixed the software upgrade, downgrade, and failure email notifications
Release 1.4.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added a 'Backup Job Started By' field to the backup job start and completed email templates to indicate who initiated a backup
- Added text to the Last Successful Backup field in the email templates to indicate how many days, hours, or minutes the last successful backup occurred
- Added a Next and Previous button and tooltips to the backup monitor tab to cycle through backup reports
- Added an Edit link on the backup monitor tab to be able to quickly edit a selected backup job
- Added a 'go to' button and tooltips on the backup job monitor tab to quickly go to the first and last backup job report
- Added the day of the week to all date fields in the backup job start and completed email templates
- Added the ability to select a backup job in the backup job monitor tab to more easily get to the backup history
- Added a 'Report x of x' label to the backup monitor tab
- Added a new 'Read More' link when a backup job is running to help guide users if they choose to stop a backup job
- Added the sequence ID as part of the output in the log file
- Added an edit column and icon button on the schedules tab of the backup job edit form to be able to more easily edit a backup schedule
- Added a Microsoft Windows Event Log to MBA so program changes, backup results, and errors could be recorded.
- Added a 'Close' button to the stop backup job form in the event the wbAdmin stop job command hangs
- Added a new a new setting for 'Ignore Warnings' that will remember if you had this checkbox checked between program uses
- Added a feature that disables the backup job edit button and changes the text to 'Loading' when the backup job is being saved and reloaded
- Added a note on the backup job edit exclusions tab to warn the user exclusions cannot be used on desktop operating systems
- Added the ability to check or uncheck the Ignore Warnings option on the Notifications tab in the backup job editor
- Added the ability to check or uncheck the Include Logs option for a notification in the backup job editor
- Added more content for clarity to a confirmation box when trying to delete a notification in the backup job editor
- Added a new definition for email notifications that helps explain why they would see a 'Validate Logs' status for their backup job
- Added a new notification feature and template to notify if a backup job has too many consecutive failures
- Added a new notification type to notify if a backup job only has warnings
- Change the default backup job revisions from 15 to 90 incremental backup versions per backup job
- Change the check for authentication test on the backup target tab of the backup job editor to only apply to UNC path backup target selections
- Customized the install software screens with My Backup Assistant logos
- Changed the copyright information to include the new website support page
- Reformat the -list and -show commands when using the command line version of My Backup Assistant
- Reformat the help commands and release the -monitor option to the public
- Reformat some of the tabs on the backup job editor form to adjust for larger screen formats
- Reformat and add content on the Help tab of the backup job editor
- Remove the My Backup Assistant commands section from the Help tab on the backup job editor. These are available from the Help menu in the main form.
- Migrated from the InstallShield Installer platform to the WiX Installer platform
- Migrated licensing to a common core library to allow for adding a Microsoft Windows Service in the future
- Changed the way the background wbAdmin monitor works so it is more reliable when a backup job is started outside of My Backup Assistant
- Fixed a bug that sent the wrong credentials to a UNC path-based backup job on a network share
- Fixed a bug that would cancel the application update process if a manual software update was requested
- Fixed a bug in the 'stop backup job' commands that would enter an infinite loop trying to stop a backup
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly calculated and displayed the backup job execution time on the backup monitor tab
- Fixed a bug when changing application settings, the settings would revert back to the initial settings
- Fixed a bug that would hang the application if the test credentials feature would fail on the backup target tab of the backup job editor
- Fixed a bug when a backup job that was running was copied, the copied backup job would also show as running
- Fixed a bug for the email reports where they were not catching the known errors to be displayed in the error logs
- Fixed a bug when using the -list and -show commands. It was reporting that the wbAdmin command were invalid.
- Fixed a bug when icons do not load properly for enable/disable or sync'd columns on the schedules tab of the backup job edit form
- Fixed a bug for email notifications that were being sent with incorrect statuses
- Fixed a bug for email notifications that were being sent with attachments even though the attachments option was not turned on
- Fixed a bug in the backup job editor that wouldn't refresh the backup job information properly if you didn't want to save your changes
- Fixed some spelling mistakes in some of the release notes entries. Wow, isn't that embarrassing.
Release 1.3.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Provided new versions of the email templates to provide better compatibility with different browsers and devices (more to be done)
- Section titles in all email templates contain links to their respective definitions on the My Backup Assistant website
- Added a Last Successful Backup field to the email templates for completed backup jobs
- Added a Backup Monitor tab to the main form to allow backups to be monitored directly within the app
- The 'View Status' link displayed at the bottom of the main form opens the backup monitor tab instead of opening a command prompt
- Added a 'View Last Report' link in the backup job list window to quickly get to the most recent backup report for that backup job
- Added the ability to double-click on a backup history row located in the backup job edit history tab to view a specific backup report
- Added a splash screen on startup to help show progress during long load times on slower systems
- Added a new self-healing feature to check and reset failed Microsoft Windows services before executing a backup job
- Added a new self-healing feature to monitor and reset Microsoft Windows wbEngine.exe crashes
- Added a local copy of the Beta End User License Agreement so it loads faster
- Redesigned the majority of the back-end code to prepare for future features for version 2.0 of the product
- Redesigned the wbAdmin watcher thread to avoid a bug in the Microsoft Windows wbEngine.exe when calling Get Status while VSS is performing cleanup
- Fixed a bug when backup jobs with archiving enabled failed, they wouldn't reset the backup target path to its original root path
Release 1.2.1---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Update Code Signing certificate for 2018
- This version did not have any new features or bug fixes
- This release was primarily for internal testing to prepare for future project updates
Release 1.2.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added new icons for the program to support product branding
- Created a new tab on the backup job form called Archiving
- Moved all backup job archiving features to the new Archiving tab and add more help content
- Created a new tab on the backup job form called Cleanup
- Added new features to the Cleanup tab that allow you to control how many incremental backups are saved for a backup job
- Increased the size of the Credential Test Summary box on the Backup Target tab to make use of the space created by moving the archive settings
- Created a new menu option on the main form to display all of the release notes
- Added a Beta Program feature to allow users to be part of the beta software releases for testing
- Added a new note to the backup job inclusions tab to indicate the primary OS drive cannot be removed when using the Bare Metal Backup option
- Alter the saving feature of the backup job form to make it more efficient
- Update some of the definitions of the mouseovers and descriptions across the software to further clarify features
- Improve formatting of tabs on the backup job edit form to fill maximized screen better
- Updated the add/edit email server window to include the email icon
- Updated the add/edit email server window to display the proper window text
- Update the backup job completed email template to fit more screen sizes
- Change the validation of backup job targets so message boxes don't appear unnecessarily
- Fix a bug when closing the backup job form that asks you to confirm closing the form without saving your changes more than it should
- Fix a bug when software is downgraded and the downgrade setting isn't reset, so the software keeps sending downgrade emails when the software starts.
- Fix various spelling and grammar mistakes throughout the software
- Fix bug that removed the history tab from backup jobs after adding the archive and cleanup features
- Fix bug where the target location alert icon covers a label
- Fix bug in email template for the Target Req. Auth. field
- Fix bug for software not running on Windows 2008 Server
- Fix various visual bugs on the Backup Edit form
Release 1.1.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added a new interface to configure email servers
- Added the ability to edit, copy, and test existing email servers
- Added the ability to import and export email servers
- Fixed a bug when sending license expiration emails