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Mediaflux Server

• Upgrades
  • Upgraded on 08-Nov-2024 to v 4.16.083
    • Improved SMB performance on macOS through improved Named Streams support
    • Fewer ._ files will now be created when using SMB on macOS, especially when working with Microsoft Office files
    • Named Streams now support recent versions of Windows 10 and 11
    • RStudio can now use a mapped Mediaflux SMB network drive for its working directory
  • Upgraded on 29-Oct-2024 to v 4.16.080
    • SMB Named Streams can now be fully disabled.  This fixes a blue screen crash on some Windows machines with particular security configuration.
    • aterm-web now has improved MFA enrollment process and general MFA UI
    • Fixed MFA enrollment for accounts in an AD domain (e.g. unimelb and unimelb-student)
  • 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
    • Allow users to unenrol from MFA when MFA is not required on their domain
    • Support for secure identity tokens with/without passwords on all clients
    • SMB performance improvements on macOS
    • SMB import-by-reference
    • Now possible to store MD5 and SHA-256 checksums for asset content
    • Asset Lifecycle analyses can now be generated
    • Improved support for long-running uploads with Mediaflux Data Mover
  • 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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