Release notes for Backup & Disaster Recovery Backend Services

1.4.0

December 11, 2025

ADDED HC-983
Ability to configure the appliance and its clients from the centralized Partner Dashboard instead of using the appliance management console
ADDED HC-984
Boot settings (CPU, RAM, hardware emulation, etc.) are now restored for a VM during DR Run. The MAC address will be restored for a VM during DR Run if it was previously configured on a Primary Appliance
ADDED HC-1033
IDBR Direct support
CHANGED HC-1054
Appliance registration with the Dashboard cannot be finished now if no cloud region is assigned to the partner
CHANGED HC-1084
Minor wording enhancements on the Hybrid Cloud Status page for improved clarity and consistency
CHANGED HC-1066
Some wording in the Connect Primary flow
CHANGED HC-1041
The minimal required firmware version that supports Hybrid Cloud is v8.16
FIXED HC-891
An issue when it was possible to initiate multiple DR Runs by clicking the same button.
FIXED HC-1039
Cosmetic issue when the appliance was not pre-selected during the DR Run initiated from its context menu
FIXED HC-1018
New primary appliance registration allowed spaces in the appliance name, which would later lead to DR run failure.
REMOVED HC-1044
Migration-related actions from the Primary Appliance menu on the Hybrid Cloud page

1.3.1

July 29, 2025

FIXED HC-989
In exceptional cases, replication of Hyper-V backup job failed with PROCESSING_FAILED error

1.2.4

May 21, 2025

FIXED HC-941
Replication session would time out in 1.5 hours (introduced in version 8.16.1)

1.2.3

April 29, 2025

ADDED HC-894
New DR Appliance models for Hyper-V DR runs only
FIXED HC-861
A new full backup was pushed if replication took longer than the retention period for the baseline backup job

1.2.2

April 4, 2025

ADDED HC-872
"Start DR Run" action button on all the tabs of the Hybrid Cloud UI
ADDED HC-843
Latest Restore Point Cloud value is shown on the Backup Status page in the Dashboard for Hybrid Cloud

1.2.1

CHANGED HC-811
Implemented compression for AVHD, AVHDX, VMRS, and BIN files during Hyper-V backup replication to the public cloud

1.2.0

ADDED HC-676
Support for resumable file uploads during replication sessions for Hyper-V and other jobs with large files
CHANGED HC-714
Increased the timeout for replication/download to 7+1 days
CHANGED HC-767
Link to VPN docs from DR Run view page for DR Appliance
CHANGED HC-732
Temporary removed sorting for the Status column in all grids
CHANGED HC-681
Updated the Hybrid Cloud-related wording to make the user experience consistent and the product family seamless and less confusing
CHANGED HC-716
Extended UI of the Replication page to show download sessions with progress/cancel

1.1.2

CHANGED HC-771
Introduced a separate GCP bucket per region

1.1.1

CHANGED HC-728
Replaced legacy CV### appliance models with new GV1### models

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