A2 Release Notes 6.2 #8498

Alike v6.2.1 build 8498

Released: 8/24/2020

This is a bugfix rollup build containing many improvements. Any customers currently experiencing issues on a previous build are encouraged to upgrade.

Improvements

• Support for XCP-ng 8.1 divergent API changes.
• Greatly improved performance of full Xen restore via ABD
• Improve DB rebuild time for larger datasets
• Resolve 'database is locked' type errors
• Domain Based Windows authentication encountered 'authentication failed' when jobs run

Fixes

• Enhanced Replication failure with "No access to memory"
• Very rare restoreFS intermittency causing 'uuid.list is missing' error
• Various DB syncing/rebuild fixes
• Many XAPI retries added to handle 'connection dropped' errors with Xen/XCP-ng
• Fix DB compaction feature in the A2 console menu
• Improve handling of slower S3 based ODS connections
• Improve DB contention in jobs
• Allow configurable WAL setting on various databases
• Upgrade Java DB libraries

Known Issues

• "alike" user for RestoreFS does not always change password properly
• LVM file-level restore not supported for RestoreFS (full restores are supported)
• Deleting an entire VM from the UI will remove it to be lost from any configured jobs
• Dashboard graph empty on first day after initial install and setup