What's new in PrimoCache Server Edition 4.3.0
Apr 7, 2023
- Compatible with Windows 11 22H2.
- New: Add the function "Freeze Cache".
- New: Add option to ignore Windows busy state for "Intelligent" and "Buffer" write modes.
- New: Add option to prefetch data from level-2 cache.
- New: Add option to turn off the level-2 validation mechanism introduced since v4.0.1.
- New: Add option to turn on/off Numa-Aware in the GUI Options dialog.
- New: Support displaying stat data in specified units.
- New: Support detecting Invisible Memory in the 512GB range on 64-bit Windows.
- New: Support entering license information during installation.
- Fix: DirectStorage was blocked.
- Fix: Failed to format certain drives as level-2 storage (Error 0x00000057) in v4.2.0.
- Fix: Failed to cache certain drives in v4.2.0.
- Fix: When "FlushL1ToL2" was enabled, even a volume was set to turn off L2, its write-data still can be flushed to L2.
- Fix: The option "IgnoreSync" was not working since v4.0.1.
- Fix: Trial got expired after Windows updates or BIOS changes.
- Fix: Some CLI commands did not redirect all output.
- Optimize: The "FlushL1ToL2" option is selected by default (if applicable).
- Optimize: Optimize code to reduce unnecessary operations.
- Optimize: Improve help and prompt messages to make them clearer.
New in PrimoCache Server Edition 4.2.0 (Jan 2, 2022)
- Support Windows 11.
- Support Windows Core Isolation.
- Support 4Kn drives as level-2 cache devices. Note: if target drives are not 4Kn drives, 4Kn L2 cache can only speed up reading.
- [Pro/Server] Level-2 cache size can be greater than 2TB for each cache task.
- Support high-DPI devices.
- Adopt a uniform system font for the GUI program.
- Optimize: Improve the connectivity to activation servers, reducing connection problems while activating online.
- Fix: On some computers, the GUI program cannot automatically launch with Windows startup as required.
- Fix: File dialogs were not resizable on Windows XP or 2003.
- Fix: Possible memory leaks.
New in PrimoCache Server Edition 4.1.0 (Feb 1, 2021)
- New: Support caching 4K native (4Kn) drives.
- Note: 4Kn drives currently cannot be used as level-2 storage.
- Fix: v4.0.1 might cause BSOD on some Vista operating systems.
New in PrimoCache Server Edition 4.0.1 (Feb 1, 2021)
- New: Verify level-2 cache data on the next boot after an ungraceful shutdown, instead of simply cleaning all level-2 cache data.
- New: Add the option value "INSTANT" for the level-2 Gather Interval, able to quickly gather data to level-2 cache when system is busy.
- New: Add the option "Flush L1 Cache to L2 Cache" for Defer-Write, able to flush level-1 deferred write-data to level-2 cache instead of target disks when level-1 cache is full.
- New: [Server Edition] Support cluster shared volumes (CSV).
- New: [Server Edition] Be numa-aware. To enable numa-aware, use CLI and command: "rxpcc set NumaAware 1".
- Fix: PrimoCache was in the Alt+Tab list though it was minimized to the tray if PrimoCache started with Windows on Windows 10 1903 or later.
- Detect 4K native (4Kn) drives and prevent them from being cached or used as level-2 cache. Currently 4Kn drives are not supported.
- Note: Disks generated by Windows Storage Space usually are 4Kn drives, so they cannot be cached in this version.
- Other minor improvements.
New in PrimoCache Server Edition 3.2.0 (Jan 1, 2020)
- Fix: Cached volumes were removed from the cache task after Windows 10 major upgrade.
- Fix: The GUI program couldn't show up on some computers with recent Windows 10 updates.
- Improvemnt: Be compatible with latest Windows 10 updates.
New in PrimoCache Server Edition 3.0.9 (Dec 30, 2018)
- Fix bug: Possible BSOD when delete an empty cache task.
- Fix bug: Once a cache task failed to start at Windows startup, whatever configuration you change later, no volume can be added to this cache task successfully.
- Fix bug: GUI program is not minimized at Windows startup on some computers.
- Fix bug: Some problems related to the GUI tray icon.
- Fix bug: On Windows 10 16299, if PrimoCache GUI is open, Windows shows "this app is preventing logoff/shutdown" when logoff/shudown the computer.
- Other improvements.