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Mediaflux Server

  • Upgrades
    • Upgraded on 14-Oct-2024 to v 4.16.074
      • Better MFA support for native clients (aterm, aterm-web, Desktop, Explorer, unimelb-mf-clients)
      • MFA TTL and timeout supported on domains that do not require MFA
      • SMB performance improvements on macOS
      • SMB import-by-reference
      • Now possible to store MD5 and SHA-256 checksums for asset content
      • asset.life.analysis.generate
      • Improved support for long-running uploads with Mediaflux Data Mover
      • Support for secure identity tokens with/without passwords on all clients
      • Allow users to unenrol from MFA when MFA is not required on their domain
    • Upgraded on 05-Aug-2024 to v 4.16.053
      • Complete MFA support
      • SMB and SFTP secure identity tokens added
      • LDAP performance improvements
    • Upgraded on 19-Feb-2024 to v 4.16.023
      • Additional MFA support
        • IP-based Time-To-Live
        • MFA on SMB
      • aterm-web
        • new edit command for text files
        • progress bar's background fill percentage now reflects service completion progress
        • service execution time is now displayed in the progress bar
      • Active Directory lookup caching
      • SMB authentication fixes and improvements
      • SMB now capable of handling symbolic links
      • Asset names can now begin with a colon (:)
    • Upgraded on 18-Sep-2023 to v 4.15.012
      • Additional features for MFA
      • SMB authentication fixes and improvements
      • POSIX named pipes now supported on NFS
      • Data Mover fixes and improvements
      • Asset destruction policies added
      • General improvements and defect fixes
    • Upgraded on 19-Jun-2023 to v 4.14.092
      • Additional Data Mover features (licences and supplemental files)
      • SMB secure channel support
      • SMB performance improvements (up to 40% faster)
      • Many other performance improvements
      • General improvements and defect fixes
    • Upgraded on 08-Sep-2022 to v  4.14.020
      • General improvements and defect fixes
    • Upgraded on 15-Jun-2022 to v 4.14.004
      • support for downloading a subset of a share with Mediaflux Data Mover
      • support for configuration of defaults for shares in Mediaflux Explorer
    • Upgraded on 08-Dec-2021 to v 4.12.036
      • initial multi-factor authentication support
      • improvements to Data Mover efficiency and functionality
      • new SSH key algorithm rsa-sha2-256 for SFTP
      • general improvements and defect fixes
    • Upgraded on 13-Jul-2021 to v 4.12.019_001 - general improvements and defect fixes.
    • Upgraded on 07/08-Dec-2020 to v 4.10.028 - generic improvements and defect fixes. The underlying storage infrastructure was also upgraded.
    • Upgraded on 06-Jul-2020 to v 4.9.079 - support for the new DataMover tool, plus generic improvements and defect fixes
  • Outages
    • There was an unexpected outage on 14-Oct-2021 from 18:15 to 20:35 (when the system was restarted).   It is understood what happened and a fix will be forthcoming (it is very unlikely to reoccur in the meantime).
  •  Other
    • 'VicNode' authentication domain renamed to 'local' (on 13-Jul-2020) and an alias 'VicNode' temporarily left in place (removed 10-Aug-2020)
    • Standard Port 22 enabled for SFTP access (21-Sep-2020). Non-standard Port 21 was disabled for SFTP access on 12-Oct-2020.

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