Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4620 - Changelog

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4612:

May 25th, 2012

What's new:
· PrimoBurner update
· Macrium Reflect now uses CD/DVD burning engine PrimoBurner 3.6. This has support for a greater range of hardware and resolves the rare issue of occasional hangs seen with the previous version.

Bug fixes:
· WAIK Time-zone
· Creation of WAIK based rescue media may not take the time-zone into account and image files could appear with the wrong time. This has been resolved.

· Uninstall Shell Registry Extensions
· When uninstalling, approved shell extensions would be removed. This has been resolved. Note: This fix applies to the removal of full installs of this version and later.

· Installation Issue
· The Macrium Reflect installer would encounter issues on machines with no network adaptors. This has been resolved.

· Menu Consistency
· Some menu items have been re-ordered for consistentency.

· WinPE WAIK Taskbar
· The Taskbar under WAIK WinPE rescue media could occasionally not be visible. This has been resolved.

· ReDeploy Active Service
· Macrium ReDeploy was not catering for some vendor active service settings. This has been resolved.

· VSS Debug Logging
· Enhanced VSS debug logging was not present even if selected in the Advanced Properties. This has been resolved.

· File & Folder Search Cancel
· Cancelling or stopping a File & Folder Search for restore could cause Reflect to hang in certain circumstances. This has been resolved.

· Rescue Media Creation
· The creation of rescue media was not catering for edge cases of linking USB root hubs to USB3 host controllers. This has been resolved.

· PE Explorer
· PE Explorer, location toolbar lost on escape keypress in location editbox. This has been resolved

· Restore UI
· Image and backup files could remain in the list of files even if the folder was removed from the search list. This has been resolved

· Rescue media Wizard
· The horizontal scrollbar was missing from the Rescue Wizard drivers page device list. This has been resolved

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4522:

April 30th, 2012

What's new:
· File & Folder Log clipboard copy
· Users can now copy a CSV list of files either backed up or restored in the Macrium Reflect log view.

· Log Image File Sizes
· Backup file sizes are now included in the backup logs.

· Backup Drive Selection
· The drives/partitions selected in the main application window are now remembered between runs of Macrium Reflect.

Bug fixes:
· Startup Issue
· Macrium Reflect could hang at startup if the file system contained an NTFS MFT record with a attribute list > 64K in size. This has been resolved.

· File & Folder Search
· When cancelling a File and Folder search operation for restore, Macrium Reflect could generate a dump report. This has been resolved.

· Licensing
· When contacting the license server, Macrium Reflect could crash on button clicks. This has been resolved.

· Email Attachment Images
· Success/fail graphics were omitted from email log attachments. This has been resolved.

· Toolbar/Status bar State
· The state of the toolbars and status bar were not being saved between runs of Macrium Reflect. This has been resolved.

· Installer issue
· In rare cases, during an upgrade from existing v4 install, the Image Mounting service would prevent the install from completing. This has been resolved.

· Fix Boot Problems Issue
· An edge case where the Fix Boot Problems option under WinPE could reboot the machine when manually specifying an operating system path. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4432:

April 12th, 2012

Bug fixes:
· Installer
· When updating Reflect, if the installer is used instead of the normal patch procedure, email settings will be lost. This has been resolved.

· Email attachments
· Byte order marker being rendered in emailed log attachments in some email clients. This has been resolved.

· Image to DVD
· In some Vista/Win7 installs omaging to DVD could cause an 'Invalid (not writeable)' error. This has been resolved.

· VSS
· VSS snapshot creation could fail if a VSS writer component is configured to use a volume that no-longer exists on the system. This has been resolved.

· Unattended System restore
· Restore with auto reboot into the rescue environment could fail if the local drives were re-sequenced by Windows PE. This has been resolved.

· Rescue environment
· Hitting escape after clicking the taskbar may result in it being hidden. This has been resolved.

· Rescue environment
· The list of existing images was not always populated when booted into WinPE recovery. This has been resolved.

· File and folder backup incremental and differential speed isssue
· An issue where the NTFS permissions setting in full backups was not being honoured in incremental backups. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4368:

March 31st, 2012

Windows 8 Consumer Preview:
· Macrium Reflect is now fully compatible with Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Bug fixes:

· IMPORTANT: ReDeploy Device Database Improvements
· Users of the Pro and Server Editions of software who make use of ReDeploy are advised to create new rescue media
· This is due to enhancements and additions to the ReDeploy device database

· Splash Screen
· The Splash screen was momentarily shown during scheduled task startup. This has been resolved.

· ReDeploy and RAID Systems
· A ReDeploy issue was reported where certain RAID Controllers would not be correctly catered for. This has been resolved.

· Delete XML Definition Files
· If the XML View tab was selected and an XML file was deleted from the list then a 'Page cannot be found' error was displayed. This has been resolved

· Email Logs
· When emailing logs using the right click menu option on the Logs tab, users were unable to enter paragraphs into the email body text. This has been resolved

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4354:

March 21st, 2012

Scheduled Task Postpone:
· Scheduled backup tasks now present a postpone option if the backup notification delay has been set in the Defaults

Definition Filename Issue:
· A scheduled task may not run if the path or the xml file name contained '-full', '-inc' or '-diff'. This has been resolved.

Free Edition Fix Boot Problems:
· The Fix Boot Problems option may not work on 32 bit based rescue systems, this only affected Free Edition customers only. This has been resolved.

UEFI Rescue Media Creation:
· The creation of rescue media on UEFI systems would, on some motherboards, fail to create valid media. This has been resolved.

Network Logon Defaults:
· An issue where a configured network logon default would not match correctly with an XML definition was raised. This has been resolved.

Rescue Media Drivers:
· An issue where certain Perc RAID controllers were not being correctly handled for Server 2003 and SBS 2003 was raised. This has been resolved.

DVD Backup Verify:
· An issue where setting backup verification and using DVD media as the target would cause the optical drive tray to be ejected prior to the verify causing the verify to fail. This has been resolved.

UEFI Recovery Boot Menu Option:
· An issue where the recovery boot menu option failed to be set for some UEFI systems on install. This has been resolved.

Recovery Boot Menu:
· Pressing the 'OK' button twice when adding the Windows PE boot menu option could cause multiple boot menu entries. This has been resolved.

Browse For Folders:
· If Windows Explorer was set to hide system and hidden files then system and hidden files were also excluded from the browse dialogs in Macrium Reflect. This has been resolved.

Rescue Media USB3 Root Hub Detection:
· Some USB3 root hubs were not being correctly matched during the rescue media creation process. This has been resolved.

WinPE Boot Process:
· During the WinPE boot process some USB devices would not be detected or have drivers loaded due to being uninitialized. This has been resolved.

Fix Boot Problems:
· Running Fix Boot Problems would render the bootmgr file to become visible and thereby accessible to standard user accounts. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4258:

February 1st, 2012

· ReDeploy 64 bit issue
· A very infrequent issue where ReDeploy was not setting the correct drivers on 64 bit platforms with certain chipsets. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4253:

January 27th, 2012

Windows Home Server:
· Macrium Reflect Standard and Professional Editions now fully support Windows Home Server platform

File And Folder Backup - folder filter mask specification improvements:
· The file and folder filter has been improved to include the full path when matching. The previous filter methods are still valid.

Free installer registration details:
· The Macrium Reflect Free Edition installer now allows for the modification of existing registration details.

Improved USB3 device detection:
· Macrium Reflect has been extended to take advantage of more USB3 controllers and hubs

Bug fixes:

Alternate Locations hint text:
· After adding a folder as an alternate backup location, clicking into the folder edit box caused the hint text to not be selected. This has been resolved.

Time remaining countdown:
· An infrequent issue was raised where the time remaining at the end of a backup was being misreported as 1 second. This has been resolved.

Autocomplete edit box visible during backup:
· Pressing any key during a backup process would result, incorrectly, in the locations autocomplete edit box to become visible. This has been resolved.

Installer Return button:
· The button on the 'License Already Installed' error dialog was Cancel and should have been OK and Cancel. This has been resolved.

Interactive backup auto shutdown:
· Automatic shutdown of interactive backups would not initiate as Macrium Reflect was still running. This has been resolved.

Rescue media USB device selection:
· When creating a rescue environment to USB pen drive media, it was possible to select a blank USB device from the list. This has been resolved.

Scheduled task deletion confirmation:
· Macrium Reflect was not prompting the user for confirmation of scheduled task deletion. This has been resolved.

Rescue media device detection:
· When creating the rescue environment, Macrium Reflect could include devices that were not relavant to the WinPE environment. This has been resolved.

Rescue media update driver:
· Macrium Reflect would allow the user to specify (or search) the Windows\Inf folder for drivers, which can lead to incorrect or unsupported drivers being included in the rescue media. This has been resolved.

WinPE Unsupported Devices dialog:
· The Unsupported Devices dialog in WinPE was displaying devices which were unrelated to the process of backup/restore. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 5.0 Build 4196:

January 6th, 2012

· New, more intuitive user interface allows for drag and drop of partitions and direct image and backup file management
· Restore multiple partitions at the same time
· Reorder and resize restored partitions
· Windows PE 3.1 based rescue environment
· Automatic Windows PE Driver Injection
· Automated restore of system partitions
· Direct disk cloning
· GPT and Dynamic Disks support*
· UEFI Windows boot support, supported only on Vista/7/Server 2008/R2 64 bit
· Whole disk restore with partition re-ordering, re-sizing, and shrinking
· Integrated email
· Integrated Windows Event logging**
· Restore images to dissimilar hardware on server class operating systems**
· Disk image and file backup archive management
· Single backup definition (XML) files for Full, Incremental and differential backups
· It's no-longer necessary to create separate XML files for your incremental and differential backups

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 4.2 Build 3775:

August 6th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· Allow selection of drive letter assignments 'A:' and 'B:' when imaging and restoring
· Previously, drive letters 'A:' and 'B:' were reserved for floppy disk controllers and local disks assigned either of these letters could not be imaged and images stored on these drives could not be selected. This has been resolved.
· Show error log if a file and folder backup 'root' folder has been deleted from the system
· Previously, a full file and folder backup would fail XML validation if a folder sected for backup had beed deleted. This has been resolved, and a full error log is now produced.
· Fix for Buffalo NAS devices
· Some buffalo NAS devises do not handle 8.3 (short) file names in a consistent way. This could cause a file and folder backup of NAS folders to fail. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 4.2 Build 3638:

June 15th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· Progress bar error when imaging partitions > 3TB
· The backup progress bar would prematurely show 100% complete when imaging disks > 3TB in size. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 4.2 Build 3584:

May 31st, 2011

Bug fixes:
· Double image verification issue
· Setting the automatic verification option could cause the verification process to be run twice. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 4.2 Build 3582:

May 27th, 2011

DSM purge sequencing problem:
· The Disk Space Management (DSM) file deletion would occur before image verification. This has been change to after verification.

File and Folder backup password problem:
· Selecting 'Append to a specific backup' type for incremental and differential backups would stop the backup wizard advancing to the next page if the selected file was encrypted or password protected. This has been resolved.

Verify Wizard resize error:
· If Windows is set to use a font size > 96 DPI then the Verify Wizard would not display correctly. This has been resolved.

File and folder backup and Daylight Savings Time problem:
· Incremental and differential File and Folder backups would backup all files if a DST change occurred prior to the backup. This has been resolved.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 4.2 Build 3141:

January 22nd, 2011

· Linux CD update - Updated isolinux boot code. This enables boot compatibility with a larger number of CD/DVD drives. The Linux update is included with this patch.
· Windows PE rescue CD update is available

Bug fixes:
· Extra icon on Win7 desktop
· When browsing an image an extra 'Computer' icon could be created on the Windows desktop. This has been resolved.
· Windows PE recovery boot menu option in Windows 7
· After a recent Windows update, the 'Other Tasks' > 'Add recovery boot menu' option stopped working in Windows 7. This has been resolved.
· Slow restore for large FAT 32 file systems
· Images containing FAT32 file systems > 100GB could be very slow to load. This has been resolved.
· Incorrect image comment displayed for diff/inc images..
· Backup sets containing differential and incremental images/backup would display the comment text, if set, for the full image/back. This has been resolved.
· Update to VSS.dll
· A VSS writer could fail if a file location referenced by the writer no longer exists. This error could propagate and may cause the snapshot to fail. This has been resolved.
· Fix mount point destination issue.
· Selecting a mount point as a destination for an image file could incorrectly show the message 'the destination is included in the backup' if the mount point was located under the root of a drive. This has been resolved.
· Update command line un-mounting to only unmount mounted drives.
· The command line switch 'reflect.exe -u' could umnount drives that were not drives used to mount Macrium images. This has been resolved.
· Change the location of the default editor for VBScript files for Windows Server 2008 R2.
· Unlike other versions of Windows, 'notepad.exe' is not available in folder 'c:\windows' for Server 2008 R2. The default editor location has now changed to 'c:\windows\system32'.

What's new in Macrium Reflect Standard Edition 4.2 Build 2409:

February 1st, 2010

· User interface bug in compression selection dialog.
· The radio buttons for 'Intelligent sector copy' and 'Make an exact copy (Clone)' were not mutually exclusive. This prevented the 'Clone' option from being selected. This has now been fixed.