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SpiderOakONE Changelog

What's new in SpiderOakONE 7.3.0

Sep 12, 2018
  • Disable LAN sync by default
  • Limit length for email on signup
  • Only show currently backed up folders when setting up Sync
  • Remove preview generator
  • Improve settings UX by making preferences show in a more consistent way
  • Force TLSv1.2 method for TLS connections in Windows

New in SpiderOakONE 7.2.0 (Jun 12, 2018)

  • Changes:
  • Add notice for data storage
  • Normalize naming conventions
  • Calculate space usage in a more efficient way
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix sync bug where the client reports that it can’t find a journal
  • (Groups only) Fix icons in dashboard for policy enforcement

New in SpiderOakONE 7.1.0 (Mar 19, 2018)

  • Changes:
  • Command line help improved/updated
  • Manpage improved/updated
  • Backup file/directory deselection behavior improved
  • Update Hive icon branding
  • Restart no longer required when changing size/age file restrictions.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Prevent unicode related sync issues
  • Prevent preferences from freezing under certain conditions

New in SpiderOakONE 7.0.1 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Updated SSL certificate pins based on CA changes in spideroak.com

New in SpiderOakONE 7.0.0 (Dec 28, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Redesign of the UI
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix support links
  • Fix for edge case where files can become 0 bytes in syncs
  • --purge-historical-versions improvements
  • Removable media detection improvements
  • Fix an issue that was causing the client to get stuck at “Calculations pending” state

New in SpiderOakONE 6.4.0 (Sep 29, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Language improvements
  • Made CDM on Windows more robust
  • Implemented secure unsharing
  • Added High Sierra support

New in SpiderOakONE 6.2.0 (May 4, 2017)

  • General UI Fixes
  • Sync Improvements
  • General Central Device Management Improvements

New in SpiderOakONE 6.1.5 (Jul 27, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • More file types available for Preview
  • Additional logging information
  • Warnings for when external links cannot be opened in a browser
  • Bug Fixes:
  • List of synced folders includes folders from deleted devices
  • Corrected some Sync behavior
  • General UI fixes

New in SpiderOakONE 6.1.3 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • New feature: pont-in-time recovery!
  • New feature: purge-hold. This adds a new command line option (--get-held-metadata) to the client, which enables Groups Administrators to manage data retention of deleted files.
  • Fix: system certificates were not being checked correctly when PrivateCloudAdress was specified.
  • Fix: the application sometimes crashed when there was no remaining storage space.
  • Fix: added some missing translations.
  • Fix: improved some wrong translations.

New in SpiderOakONE 6.1.2 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • New feature: point-in-time recovery! Try it using SpiderOakONE --restore /DIRECTORY/TO/RESTORE --point-in-time YYYY-MM-DD/hh:mm.
  • Fix: the application sometimes crashed when there was no remaining storage space
  • Fix: added some missing translations
  • Fix: improved some wrong translations

New in SpiderOakONE 6.1.1 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • New Feature: implemented Preferences for generic Groups private clouds
  • Fix: sometimes the application crashed when there was no leftover storage space

New in SpiderOakONE 6.1 (Feb 2, 2016)

  • Added language support for German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Russian
  • Created a transitional package for .rpm platforms
  • Fix: Windows: Show File History command in OS integration did not open file history for deleted files
  • Fix: The application did not show the updated email address after editing it
  • Fix: Windows: Application executable had wrong revision number in the version string
  • Fix: Tray icon menu item names were inconsistent with the application tabs names
  • Fix: The Buy More Space button was disabled in the Upgrade message dialog

New in SpiderOakONE 6.0.1 (Dec 14, 2015)

  • Improved system-tray icon with smoother animation
  • The "Scan Now" button has a new progress indicator
  • The backup activity field on HOME tab shows the "Upload complete" time again
  • Fix: Fix storage-space display for users with unlimited storage-space
  • Fix: Button "empty deleted items" didn't work
  • Fix: UI didn't start for some users with old user accounts without an email address
  • Fix: Windows: convert old "SpiderOak" autostart setting to new "SpiderOakONE" autostart setting
  • Fix: Client failed to start with some invalid backup selections
  • Fix: Windows: The client sometimes opened multiple browser windows
  • Fix: Windows: Sometimes there was a delay when right clicking on files in Windows Explorer
  • Several visual improvements

New in SpiderOakONE 6.0 (Jul 18, 2015)

  • Modernized look and feel of UI on Linux, Windows, and Mac
  • New name: SpiderOakONE (We also provide a SpiderOak backup and sync product for Groups and another for Enterprise. This name change was necessary to reduce confusion going forward.)
  • New branding consistent with SpiderOak.com (new logo, icons, etc.)
  • New feature: Clear Upload Queue. In case you change your mind about uploading that Blu-ray disc image
  • Automatic recovery from time traveling clients. You probably don't need to worry about this if you don't use SpiderOak inside a virtual machine with snapshots that you restore to. Time travel is the situation when, for example, the client moves "back in time" relative to the server. For example if you run SpiderOakONE inside a Virtual Machine and then restore that Virtual Machine to an earlier snapshot, then continue using the earlier snapshot. In this case, the server is now "ahead" of the client. The client has already backed up newer versions of things that it now no longer knows about. The client will detect this situation and wait up to 24-36 hours in case the user soon returns to the later snapshot. If the time travel situation persists, the client will automatically re-sync with the server and continue the backup without interruption. In this scenario, files that were created exclusively in the "future" VM snapshot would be preserved by SpiderOak as deleted items
  • Updated SpiderOak Hive startup guide
  • Improvements to space accounting
  • Upgraded toolchain with updates to Qt, PyQT, Python and OpenSSL
  • Along with the new name, paths to executables have changed. On Linux systems a symlink is placed in the previous location so cron jobs and such will continue to operate
  • Similarly, names of some Windows registry keys have changed
  • Application data has moved depending on OS: Windows uses %LOCALAPPDATA%\SpiderOak\SpiderOakONE
  • Some under the hood changes paving the way for new features in 6.1
  • Fix to Windows MSI installer to disallow installing the 32 bit application alongside a 64 bit application

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.10 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Support for new server api with updated certificate

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.8 (Aug 25, 2014)

  • Security update for OpenSSL (1.0.1i)
  • More restrictive Server -> Client API
  • Work around Python 2.7.7 bug (Windows only)
  • Minor bugfixes

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.6 (Jul 18, 2014)

  • Fix regression of 5.1.5: Failing syncs on some devices with purged folders

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.5 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • OpenSSL security update
  • Fix: Missing drive letters on Windows
  • Fix: File descriptor leaks
  • Enhancement: Faster handling of purged folders

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.2 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • New Feature: New command line option "--rename-device"
  • Speed Improvement: Faster handling of purged files
  • Fix: Folders were sometimes not listed in View Tab
  • Fix: Windows client sporadically came to foreground when minimized
  • Fix: Show warning when installation has been re-installed on another device
  • Fix: Show "Make File Link and Create Email" errors in foreground (Windows)
  • Fix: directory watcher didn't exclude SpiderOak folder on Windows, causing high cpu usage
  • Fix: Syndication process doesn’t run on first device setup
  • Minor fixes

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.1 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • Includes changes from the previous beta version

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.1 Beta 2 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Fix: Don't minimize the About dialog when launch minimized option is in effect.
  • Fix: windows_dir_watcher didn't handle long paths.
  • Fix: sending links to Metro Mail Application.
  • Blue Fix: read default option only for new devices.

New in SpiderOakONE 5.1.0 Beta 1 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Auto-Proxy-Support:
  • System Proxy Settings
  • Browser Proxy Settings
  • Manual Settings
  • PAC auto-configuration
  • WPAD auto-detection
  • limitations:
  • Proxy bypass list is not yet taken into account when using manual proxy settings either directly in the desktop client or taken from browser configuration.
  • We only support basic authentication with proxies.
  • Fallback proxies as returned by proxy auto config are not used.
  • Faster downloads.
  • Fix bug causing SpiderOak to require a restart after reinstallation.
  • Fix bug causing SpiderOak to show duplicated folders.
  • Fix click-to-maximize on Mac and Windows.
  • Fix bug preventing SpiderOak from updating syncs immediatly in some circumstances.
  • Fix bugs in directory-watcher on 64 bit Windows.
  • config/SpiderOak is now used for configuration data instead of ~/.SpiderOak on Linux.
  • Improved Linux autostart.

New in SpiderOakONE 5.0.3 (Oct 30, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Fix bug causing exclusion wildcards to fail for files with spaces in the names
  • Fix file naming bug when restoring a deleted Hive folder
  • Fix bug making text in program unreadable on dark themes under some Linux window managers
  • Known issues:
  • SpiderOak cannot currently communicate with the Metro Mail App in Windows 8. This means that the "Make a Share Link and Create Email" option in the OS integration menu will not work. We are working on a fix.

New in SpiderOakONE 5.0.3 Beta (Jul 30, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Fix some apt repository inconsistencies
  • Fix rare bug preventing Hive folder from being disabled
  • Fix bug allowing user to define shares without setting a ShareID
  • Fix rare bug causing all backed up files to be queued for upload even without changes
  • Fix bug causing syncs to stall in some cases when an involved file is in use
  • Fix bug that would occasionally cause sharing a single file to fail
  • Fix bug causing syncs to break if a folder involved in a sync is purged
  • Fix a race condition causing backup to fail if a file is modified during a backup scan

New in SpiderOakONE 5.0.2 (Jun 22, 2013)

  • Fix a bug causing uncontrolled growth of application data folder during large downloads.
  • Fix a bug allowing user to set up a sync feedback loop involving the Hive folder.
  • Now removes folder branding when disabling SpiderOak Hive.
  • Fix a bug causing SpiderOak to sometimes launch at OS startup even when that option was disabled.
  • Fix SpiderOak Hive branding on OpenSUSE 12.x.
  • Fix a bug causing SpiderOak to crash on Windows with certain non-English characters in account info.
  • Fix a bug preventing SpiderOak from immediately picking up changes to Hive Folder in some circumstances.
  • Fix a bug causing the OS integration about dialog to crash when SpiderOak is running.
  • Prevent OS integration icon overlays from showing on excluded files/folders.
  • Fix a bug causing sync to fail for filenames containing invalid characters.
  • Ensure Hive Folder branding is set up correctly upon device reinstall.

New in SpiderOakONE 5.0.1 (Apr 26, 2013)

  • Fixed a rare bug that would have occasionally caused bootstrapping the first device to fail for a new user.

New in SpiderOakONE 5.0 Beta (Apr 10, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • SpiderOak Hive: We adopted a simple approach to syncing data across all devices by creating the SpiderOak Hive folder. Simply drag and drop files or folders into this folder and they will automatically sync to your other devices.
  • OS Integration for Windows (Mac and Linux soon to follow): Granting right-click access functions via Explorer now allows you to backup, share, and view historical versions.
  • Enhancements:
  • ShareRoom Enhancement: Users can now add passwords to their ShareRooms which adds an additional layer of security when sharing important files.
  • Remote Diagnostics: We added a capability for remote diagnostics to help when troubleshooting problems with customer support. This option is disabled by default. You must explicitly enabled it. Diagnostic reports consist of metadata such as program and OS version information, file system types, program log files, folder and file names. Reports do not include backup data, passwords, or encryption information.
  • Password Enhancement: As a new user, you must now change your password upon setting up your first device when JavaScript was disabled during signup and a temporary password was automatically generated.
  • ShareRoom Enhancement: We added clarification to the ShareRoom creation wizard.
  • Fixes:
  • LAN sync: Fixed a bug with LAN sync, allowing the client to recover from certain error conditions.
  • UI / View Tab: Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the UI to erroneously disable the View tab in the client after displaying the "out of space" popup window.
  • AppIndicator framework: Switch system tray icon to use AppIndicator framework on Ubuntu.
  • Backup: Fixed a bug which prevents category size indicator on basic backup tab from updating without restarting the client
  • Downloads: Fixed a bug that prevented downloads from resuming after a network failure.
  • Uninstalling SpiderOak: Fixed a bug on Windows which reports publisher info as 'unknown' when uninstalling SpiderOak
  • Sync: Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented sync from detecting a moved folder properly, instead considering it a deletion
  • Backup: Fixed a bug causing backup to fail under a very rare edge case

New in SpiderOakONE 4.8.4 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Fix a bug causing upgrade from one version of 4.8.x series to a newer one to fail on Windows

New in SpiderOakONE 4.8.0 Beta (Nov 7, 2012)

  • Fixed bug causing synchronizations to not work correctly under Windows XP in certain situations
  • Re-built the Windows installation file as MSI for greater flexibility and installation user management
  • Fixed bug causing recycle bin downloads to fail
  • Fixed bug causing custom download locations for file-restores not to work correctly
  • Fixed bug causing un-installation to require reboot under Windows

New in SpiderOakONE 4.7.9948 Beta (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Fix minor bugs affecting the preview generator
  • Fix a bug causing the program to crash when attempting to create a sync with an entire drive in Windows
  • Fix bug causing single files selected for backup (ie. not part of a folder which is selected for backup) to not be monitored for immediate changes
  • Fix sync bug causing subfolder contents not to be synced in some circumstances

New in SpiderOakONE 4.6.1.9946 Beta (Jun 19, 2012)

  • Fix bug causing download manager to display incorrect download size in some circumstances
  • Fix rare startup bug on non-english platforms
  • Improve sync feedback handling

New in SpiderOakONE 4.6.9945 (Jun 13, 2012)

  • Do not include ShareRoom password support from previous beta

New in SpiderOakONE 4.6.9943 Beta (May 30, 2012)

  • Fix bug causing single-file share linking to fail for some files already contained in a ShareRoom
  • Add support for optional password on ShareRooms
  • Fix bug causing space calculation to be incorrect for categories with overlapping content

New in SpiderOakONE 4.5.9941 (May 24, 2012)

  • Sync and LAN Sync reliability improvements

New in SpiderOakONE 4.5.9939 (May 9, 2012)

  • Fixed bug causing scans to repeat constantly during scheduled time
  • Fix a bug causing SpiderOak to upload duplicate directories due to Windows path separator
  • Fix bug causing --generate-previews command line option to encrypted previews to the incorrect key in some circumstances
  • Fix a bug causing sync to fail to update some often-changing files
  • Fix a rare preference loading bug
  • Fix a bug causing SpiderOak to constantly reconnect when proxy password is set incorrectly
  • Fix backup tab lag in the presence of floppy drives
  • Fix a rare download bug
  • Addition of LAN Sync

New in SpiderOakONE 4.3.9928 (Mar 17, 2012)

  • Remove Windows Explorer "Favorites" category
  • Fix out of memory issue caused by "Favorites" category
  • Deduplicate backup selection when a folder is a part of multiple categories

New in SpiderOakONE 4.3.9917 Beta (Feb 2, 2012)

  • Fix a bug causing client to hang in some circumstances when purging historical versions.
  • Fix a bug preventing image previews from updating after deduplication.
  • Fix local copy feature.
  • Add --generate-previews command line option for generating previews for historical versions

New in SpiderOakONE 4.2.9913 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • Fix a refresh bug on the view page.
  • Fix an issue with non-English characters in passwords.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.2.9912 Beta (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Fix a bug where two devices may both think they're the first device to be added to an account.
  • Fix a bug preventing selection of Windows "Favorites" on basic view when containing folders with non-English names.
  • Fix a couple of bugs causing version building to go more slowly than it should for large files

New in SpiderOakONE 4.2.9909 (Dec 16, 2011)

  • Fixed a problem with some large filetypes that could lead SpiderOak to falsely conclude the file had been modified during backup.
  • Fixed a bug in the basic view causing category selection to be incorrect if any of the default categories appeared in Windows Favorites.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.2.9907 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • Fix bug causing changes to backup selection to be lost if a transaction is committed or received from another device before the save button is pressed.
  • Fix a bug present only in betas 9895 through 9901 which inadvertently writes the user's password to the local log files during new device setup.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.2.9901 Beta (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Fix a bug causing filesystem scan from looping during scheduled hour when backup schedule is enabled.
  • Fix tree view bug on view tab when removing files.
  • Fix some innocuous logging bugs.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.2.9900 Beta (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Fix a bug preventing image thumbnail information from being syndicated correctly across devices.
  • Fix software update repository path on openSUSE.
  • Fix bug that sometimes prevented SpiderOak from closing.
  • Fix bug causing preferences to be lost when closing and reopening SpiderOak.
  • Fix bug causing --purge-historical-versions command line option to remove too much data.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.1.9860 (Oct 18, 2011)

  • Remove libssl dependency in deb builds.
  • Preserve file modification time when syncing files with resource forks. This also fixes a sync feedback loop bug.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.1.9850 (Sep 17, 2011)

  • Fix crash when running --fulllist command line option with international characters in filenames.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.1.9849 (Sep 9, 2011)

  • Fix one more single instance lock bug.

New in SpiderOakONE 4.1.9848 Beta (Sep 1, 2011)

  • Include new command line arguments for handling shares.
  • Include a low-level data structure performance improvement.
  • Fixed a display bug causing the storage bar to show the plan size rather than the used space.
  • Fixed some bugs related to single instance locking and the --shutdown command line argument

New in SpiderOakONE 4.0.9830 (Aug 11, 2011)

  • Update root SSL certificate for web API access again for compatability with older Android phones that don't have the newer root certificates

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9810 (May 23, 2011)

  • Fixes a bug that sometimes prevents generation of a single-file-sharing URL.
  • Enable the next button in the new user setup sequence when the activation code was autodetected.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9801 (May 23, 2011)

  • Fix a bug preventing some users from being able to upgrade from some ancient versions of SpiderOak.
  • Autodetection of activation code if it has been copied to the clipboard during first device activation sequence.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9799 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Allow reinstall/repair during headless and batchmode operation.
  • Fixed a number of out-of-memory errors when dealing with large data sets.
  • Show top 50 space-consuming journals in stats output.
  • Upgrade to Python 2.7.1, SQLite 3.7.5, and Qt 4.7 on all platforms and architectures.
  • Switched to a hybrid database format for client side storage which greatly reduces CPU and memory usage.
  • Fixed a number of memory leaks.
  • Restructured the signup process to allow creating an account on SpiderOak.com

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9781 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Fix Single Instance Lock on Windows (again).
  • Fixed another instance of a minor bug causing misleading log messages after cancelling a download.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9780 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Revert multiple instances on Windows fix from previous beta, which was causing crashes in some cases.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9779 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Significant speedups in a core data structure used for many different tasks in SpiderOak.
  • Fix a bug preventing multiple instances of SpiderOak to be run on Windows in advanced configurations.
  • --batchmode operation will now notify the server when a backup is complete.
  • Fix a bug causing downloaded folders to have an extraneous path element.
  • Fix a bug causing the display to not update in certain circumstances when backing up individual files.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9773 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Correction for a performance regression introduced in the previous beta series that could sometimes make syndication take unusually long.
  • Improved detection of already compressed files to avoid unnecessary CPU use for compression.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9771 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Some tuning optimization for uploading many small files faster.
  • Significant improvement to speed of decoding downloaded files for downloads and syncs.
  • Significant reduction in CPU use while SpiderOak is receiving chunks of downloading files from the server.
  • Fix for a rare syndication failure.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9766 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Fixed a minor bug causing misleading log messages after cancelling a download.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9764 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • More download performance enhancements.
  • Fixed a bug causing preference dialog to forget some preferences.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the deleted items bin from showing when the first file is deleted.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9761 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • More download performance enhancements.

New in SpiderOakONE 3.7.9759 Beta (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Fixes a bug causing downloads to not resume after a connection failure.
  • Fixes a bug introduced in a previous beta causing syncs to sit in "Waiting" state.