BrickStor Release Notes

Thank you for choosing BrickStor SP. The RackTop team is pleased to announce the availability of BrickStor SP 23.0.0.

About the Release Notes

The release notes provide critical and release-specific information for BrickStor SP 23.0.0 behavioral changes.

Improvements and Functionality

23.0.6

  • Added support for the Temporary file SMB extended attribute.

  • Enhanced SMB Service stability on restart.

  • Webhooks now use public SSL root certificates.

Brickstor SP Manager

  • PDF reports now support custom watermarks.

  • Implemented various fixes to stability and performance.

23.0.5

  • Improvements made to HA peer power detection.

  • Improved communication with RMM devices.

  • Introduced support for new HBAs.

  • General system reliability improvements.

23.0.4

  • Improved compatibility with HPE iLO.

  • General system reliability improvements.

23.0.3

  • Added compatibility for Windows 11 SMB clients.

  • Added compatibility for macOS Monteray (12.3) SMB client.

  • Added a tool to disable user behaviour indexing.

  • Enhanced logging of HA sensor states.

  • General system reliability improvements.

23.0.2

  • AHCI avoids low power mode.

  • Addressed Active Defense false-positive regarding Adobe Acrobat temporary files.

  • Snapshot creation and management reliability improvements.

  • Improved snapshot creation performance times.

  • Improved pool export logic to speed up HA failovers.

  • Added support for Seagate 2U12 enclosures.

  • Reliability improvements to TDM.

23.0.1

  • Improved reliability of resource group failover.

  • Improved performance for user behavior data collection.

  • General system reliability improvements.

23.0.0

New & Notable Features

Active Defense

  • Enhanced active protections from ransomware, malware, and unusual activity

  • Detect and stop unusual data access patterns

  • Detect and alert on malicious administrators

  • Incident response engine with workflow and easy remediation

Rolling Snapshots

  • Optimize recovery by continuously recording up-to-the-minute data changes within a rolling window

Health Engine

  • Expanded health monitoring with integrated reporting

  • Third party notification integrations with Pagerduty, Microsoft Teams, Pushover, and Slack

  • Custom alerting via webhooks

Reporting Engine

  • Customize and subscribe to various system, service and compliance reports in HTML, PDF, CSV or JSON format

OOBE

  • Improved out-of-box experience with graphical console support

  • Official Support for EC2 and Azure

    • This release is officially supported to run in Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure clouds

Changes & Updates to Existing Features

  • SMB now supports Hyper-V

  • OpenSSH updated to 8.4p1

  • SMB bug fixes for macOS Big Sur

  • Configurable API timeouts

  • Support for RES3FV288 enclosures

Deprecated Features

  • Mongodb has been removed and is no longer supported