New Version 8 update: Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6036 - 14th July 2021
Installer
On pre-Windows 8 systems we've improved the detection of Windows SHA-2 patches to enable installation to continue.
Rescue Media Builder
When determining what size partition to create for USB rescue media, the Rescue Media Builder will now always allocate at least 20% more space than is required for the files to ensure enough space is allocated.
If the Rescue Media Builder could not find enough space on a USB stick to create the rescue media, the log could report incorrect partition numbers and size requirements. This has been resolved.
An invalid filename for an iso file could cause the iso file path to be malformed. This has been resolved.
Macrium Reflect UI - General
We've added a Full/Diff/Inc backup type column to the Log View list.
The 'Type' column in the 'Definition Files' view is now sortable.
Disabled menu items could sometimes appear as enabled when using the light theme. This has been resolved.
When trying to rename an XML definition file, the ‘c’ character could not be entered. This has been resolved.
The mouse pointer detection zone for check-boxes in the Browse Image dialog box was too small, making them difficult to interact with. This has been resolved.
Under Reflect Defaults, some text labels in the Email Settings could become misaligned. This has been resolved.
Existing Files View
We've changed the icon in the list of folders for network shares that can't connect and for folders that don't exist. We've also added a 'Connect' context menu to prompt for authentication and to display an appropriate error message for local folders.
Intermittent connection issues could cause the list of backups in a shared folder to be empty. This has been resolved.
Removing the last folder in the list of files to search in the existing backups view would not refresh the backups. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media
When authenticating a network share while booted into the Rescue Media, clicking the Show Password button could cause the Rescue Media to reboot. This has been resolved.
The backup run dialog could be clipped when running at 800x600 resolution. This has been resolved.
An incorrect VSS warning message box was displayed when imaging removable drives in the rescue media. This has been resolved.
We've increased the time-out when connecting to network shares to reduce connection failures. We recommend re-building your rescue media if these problems adversely affect you, or if you're unsure.
viBoot
viBoot in VirtualBox mode now uses per-user repository for VMs instead of per-machine configuration. This is to bring it in-line with Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager UI. Existing VMs will be migrated to per-user repository when viBoot is restarted after installation.
Removable Drive Images
Images of BitLocker encrypted flash/removable drives would fail with a file system error. This has been resolved.
Clone/Restore
A drive letter could be incorrectly assigned when 'None' was selected for the target partition drive letter. This has been resolved. .
Server Plus Exchange
Exchange backups now show a more appropriate error when attempting to backup databases that changed location.
Encrypted and password protected Incremental backups could fail to append to an existing backup set. This has been resolved.
Various
Various minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6161 - 7th September 2021
General
We've added identification of external processes locking Macrium Reflect backup files when a sharing violation causes a failure in the backup or consolidation. Note: Process names can only be identified if they originate on the local PC and are traceable.
We've added a 'Reveal' button to show the typed/entered password when browsing/verifying/restoring password protected or encrypted images.
We've added a backup overall progress percentage tooltip to Reflect Monitor taskbar system tray icon
Localization
We've added Japanese localization support. The Japanese language will be automatically selected at install time for Japanese Windows installations.
Take 'Other Tasks' > 'Defaults and Settings' > 'Advanced' > 'Language' to change language for an existing installation after patching.
日本語で利用可能になりました これらのリリースノートのGoogle翻訳については、ここをクリックしてください
Rescue Media Builder
Recent backup folders were not always being copied when creating rescue media. This has been resolved.
We've added a network authentication prompt when saving an ISO file to a disconnected network share.
Technician's Rescue Media
The option to prefix the backup filename with IMAGEID was not available in PE/Portable mode. This has been resolved.
The toolbar for Defaults was not visible in Technician's PE/Portable mode. This has been resolved.
File and Folder Backup
Folders to backup were not added in alphabetic order. This has been resolved.
File & Folder backup wizard would not use the users locale date/time format for the folder date/time. This has been resolved.
Server Plus
The refresh of the Exchange backup cache could lead to a "Not Responding" state. This has been resolved.
Exchange backup could lead to an error "Not Enough Storage is available to process this command". This has been resolved.
A program exception could occur when specifying an alternate location for SQL Server database restore. This has been resolved.
Clone
Email Attachments were missing for Clone operation. This has been resolved.
Clone operations could fail to start if Forensic Copy was selected. This has been resolved.
Image
An edge case with some flash drives could cause the last physical cluster of an imaged file system to be skipped. This has been resolved.
Changed Block Tracker
The CBT state in Macrium Reflect menus would not always track the current CBT state correctly. This has been resolved.
On some systems, CBT could not be enabled on the system volume. This has been resolved.
Image Mounting
Mounted NTFS volumes would show as tbFAT in the Windows Explorer properties dialog when the option to "Allow access to restricted folders" had been checked. This has been resolved.
When mounting an image the image comment would be displayed over the checkbox forcing 2 clicks to enable the checkbox. This has been resolved.
When an image is automatically dismounted as part of consolidation, the Unmount backup dialog would retain the mounted volume. This has been resolved.
Defaults and Settings
The network authentication defaults now has a Test option to test connectivity.
On 32 bit systems, default network user names were not being saved. This has been resolved.
Log View
The toolbar on the Log View could become corrupt when hiding the filters after switching tabs. This has been resolved.
The Log view refresh button was clearing the log filters. This has been resolved.
Existing Backups View
The Existing Backups View browse option would not automatically select the file that was browsed for. This has been resolved.
We've made the 'Folders list' column in the Existing Backups View re-sizable.
Reflect Monitor
Cancelling a backup in Reflect Monitor could leave some buttons disabled. This has been resolved.
Various
Various minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
We've added French, Russian and Ukrainian translations to Macrium Reflect, and improved the coverage of translated strings.
Windows 11
Support has been added in RMBuilder for the Windows 11 PE Rescue Environment.
The rescue media now correctly automatically assigns drive letter 'C' to the Windows 11 system drive.
The rescue media now correctly identifies and labels Windows 11 for 'Fix Boot Problems' and 'ReDeploy'
We've fixed a problem that could cause a Windows 11 disk clone to hang at the end of the clone process.
If this affects you then please create fresh rescue media after updating.
Rescue Media Builder
The interface would not scale correctly when moved to a different monitor. This has been resolved.
Scheduling
The backup delay after reboot for scheduled backups is now user configurable. This enables a custom delay to enable network shares and external disks to come on-line before starting a backup. See here for more information.
The message displayed in the log for a full target disk has been improved
On some systems, tasks scheduled to run at logon would not always run. This has been resolved.
File and Folder Backup/Restore
There’s a new option in Restore to select the "Parent Folder" to restore when restoring to a new location. It’s now possible to restore individual files directly into the new folder, or restore higher parent folder(s) of the selected files.
Note, if the files selected to restore are in multiple folders then the common parent folder of the selected files is used as the base parent. See here for more information.
Some file modified dates in File and Folder backups could be off by the DST time difference. This has been resolved.
Use of inconsistent share name case in network share paths could lead to multiple root folders when mounting the backup in Explorer. This has been resolved.
Customers reported a rare case where exclusion filters could be ignored in Japanese. This has been resolved.
Cloning
We've resolved a problem where shrinking large FAT32 file systems, where the root directory cluster wasn't at a standard offset, could cause the cloned file system to be unreadable.
Note: The cluster offset indicates that the file system wasn't created by Windows, and is a rare occurrence.
viBoot
viBoot would not respond to a theme change. This has been resolved.
viBoot incorrectly checking password encrypted image files during VM creation. This has been resolved.
Empty error message was displayed when attempting to change repository location. This has been resolved.
Change Block Tracker
Change Block Tracker would sometimes fail to attach to the System volume. This has been resolved.
Image Guardian
We have improved the attack detection algorithms to provide enhanced security.
General
Customers were reporting issues with network share access in the UI and during backup. This has been resolved.
General UI
The File menu option in Reflect Monitor would sometimes not be shown. This has been resolved.
The Restore button in the Restore wizard would not disable all page items. This has been resolved.
Customers reported that the backup log could be in mixed English and German. This has been resolved.
Log View refresh button was not correctly finding new log files. This has been resolved.
Log View browser view option would not correctly show the backup state image. This has been resolved.
Existing Backups View was not showing split file total sizes alongside the single file size. This has been resolved.
Customers reported a crash in the Existing Backups view when refreshing the list of files. This has been resolved.
In PE Explorer the OK button was not opening selected volumes. This has been resolved.
Scheduled backups on completion could leave the Close button disabled. This has been resolved.
Customers reported that the backup system tray icon could not be shown. This has been resolved.
Windows Notifications were not translated. This has been resolved.
The verify process after backup showed a double percentage sign. This has been resolved.
Standalone WebView2 browser for email authentication has been removed due to Google API change.
Existing Backups View. The size column is now configurable.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6353 - 6th November 2021
Encrypted Backups
After upgrading to v8.0.6350, scheduled encrypted backups failed with 'File is encrypted and supplied password is incorrect'. This has been resolved.
New update ug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6392 - 18th November 2021
Rescue Media
Some customers have reported incorrect drive letter assignments in Windows PE. This has been resolved. If this issue affects you then please create fresh rescue media after updating.
Server Plus
Improved performance of the Exchange Mailbox Restore wizard when selecting folders or mailboxes.
Changed Block Tracker
We've added extra detection for nonconforming 3rd party file system kernel filter drivers to prevent system exceptions.
Various
Various minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
New update Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6758 - 11th May 2022
Localization
We've added Chinese and Chinese (Taiwan) to Macrium Reflect, and improved the coverage of translated strings.
We would like to thank our localization contributors for their outstanding help with the Macrium Reflect localization project. For credits, please take the 'Help' > 'About' menu option and click 'Localization Contributors'
Macrium Reflect Automation Command Line Utility - MRAuto.exe
We've created a new utility to simplify common Image backup and restore tasks using the Windows command line. Note: MRAuto.exe is installed to the Macrium Reflect installation folder and is not available for Macrium Reflect Free.
For more information on MRAuto.exe please see here
File and Folder
We've added a "Select All" checkbox to the Search Restore Files Wizard. Note: When multiple versions of a file are available, only the most recent will be selected.
Incremental and Differential backups could incorrectly list some unchanged files as included in the current backup. This has been resolved.
Macrium Image Guardian
We've added an optional email notification for Blocked File Operations.
For more information on this functionality please see here
viBoot
A password error could incorrectly be reported for encrypted image files during a VM Backup. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media
When building PE 10 rescue media, if a custom wim file was provided, the Windows PE 10 download would sometimes incorrectly report failure. This has been resolved.
Macrium Reflect General
We've added additional information to the 'Detach Image' dialog to identify the mounted image file.
Image logs have been enhanced to include the unique volume path for each file system imaged. This helps to identify which volume is being verified when there is no drive letter assigned to the file system.
Saving a generated backup script in a previously unseen folder will show a 'Script folder warning' message to ensure the folder is protected from unauthorised access.
Renaming scripts from the script view context menu could prematurely cancel or lose the file extension. This has been resolved.
Site Manager created Image Files and Logs would not always have the backup definition displayed as Site Manager nor be correctly filtered. This has been resolved.
Using the Existing Files view context menu to View Backup Logs by definition, will now show Site Manager logs for a Site Manager created Image File.
Various
Various minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
New update: Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6867 - 6th July 2022
Localization
The console output incorrectly displayed non English language characters when running batch files and scripts. This has been resolved.
Technicians Portable
When running backups and clones from Technicians media in Portable mode, the Reflect window could be hidden with no way to un-hide. This has been resolved.
Macrium Reflect Automation Command Line Utility - MRAuto.exe
The Reflect Default settings would cause old backup files to be purged without specifying --retention option. This has been resolved.
ReflectUpdater
ReflectUpdater could cause a program exception during a check for update or registration. This has been resolved.
File and Folder
A rare computer crash has been reported when dismounting File and Folder backups. This has been resolved.
When selecting files to restore in the file search dialog, de-selecting a file will now correctly de-select the 'Select All' checkbox.
Macrium Image Guardian
We've fixed multiple visual issues on older versions of Windows.
Changed Block Tracker
After restoring a non-system MBR partition on Windows 7, CBT would sometimes not be used for future images. This has been resolved.
Backup Completion Emails
We've added dynamic parameters to both the email subject and the message body of completion email.
Please see here, for more information.
Email Defaults - Recipients email address(es) were not correctly saved when changing existing defaults. This has been resolved.
Macrium Reflect General
We've added an Export button to the Schedule Backups toolbar. This was previously only available in the right click context menu.
Backing up unlocked BitLocker partitions without Reflect image encryption enabled will now show a warning message to suggest encrypting the backup.
We've added a new comment column to the 'Existing Backups' view to display backup comments in the list of files and sets.
We've fixed a bug that caused a program crash if a disk was connected that was originally cloned using a 3rd party product called 'Casper'.
Cloning and shrinking a FAT32 volume could fail with 'Error 0'. This has been resolved.
Some BitLocker partitions on MBR style disks would fail to auto-unlock in the Rescue Environment. This has been resolved.
Various
Various other minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6979 - 7th September 2022
Localization
We've added Hungarian localization to Macrium Reflect and improved the coverage of translated strings.
We would like to thank our localization contributors for their outstanding help with the Macrium Reflect localization project. For credits, please take the 'Help' > 'About' menu option and click 'Localization Contributors'
Macrium Image Guardian
The Macrium Image Guardian Settings dialog box could crash if a storage device returned a malformed Device Name. This has been resolved.
The check boxes and icons in the Volumes tab of the Macrium Image Guardian Settings dialog box did not display correctly at some DPI levels. This has been resolved.
RMBuilder
When downloading Windows PE 5.0, the Rescue Media Builder would sometimes fail to download the last 15MB. This has been resolved.
Clone
Cancelling a clone operation and selecting 'No' to the cancel request would leave the operation in Paused state. This has been resolved.
Restore
The Shutdown/Reboot selection for automatic restores in the PE rescue media would not be honored. This has been resolved.
File and Folder Backup
An incorrect 'Cannot replace file...' error could be shown when restoring a file from a File and Folder backup to a different location. This has been resolved.
Backup Completion Emails
Email parameters. The {WINVER} parameter now also appends Window's update build revision(UBR) number.
We've added the following parameters:
{BACKUPSTATUS} - Backup completion status
{BACKUPCOMMENT} - Backup Comment
User Interface
We've added a basic password authentication option to the Macrium Reflect user interface.
Please see here, for more information.
We've added a new option to disable consolidation for Incremental retention.
Please see here, for more information.
Macrium Reflect General
Windows Security/Defender reports warnings when Attack Surface Reduction rules are enabled. This has been resolved.
When running in the Rescue environment, the toolbar button to display loading errors in the Existing Backups tab was hidden. This has been resolved.
After cancelling a split-file backup that had progressed to the last file, Reflect could prompt for a new backup destination. This has been resolved.
In some instances, automatic image verification could result in the system becoming unresponsive during verification. This has been resolved.
We've improved the resizing of the Image View comments column, and the limitation on comment length displayed has been removed.
Reflect could crash when downloading language file with no Internet connection. This has been resolved.
An incorrect warning message, 'File is encrypted and supplied password is incorrect', could be shown in backup logs if consolidation was disabled using the registry setting. This has been resolved.
Various
Various other minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.7097 - 31st October 2022
Scheduling
If the scheduler fails to launch Reflect, a diagnostic error code will now appear in the scheduler history.
SQL Backups
SQL authentication credentials could fail to save causing scheduled backups to fail. This has been resolved.
Technician's USB Media
Expired Technician's USB sticks would sometimes crash on startup, rather than giving a "This Technicians' media has expired" message box. This has been resolved.
Imaging
ReFS volumes on dynamic disks were shown as "Unformatted" in Reflect Server. This has been resolved.
Restores and Clones. We've improved the handling of logical partitions on MBR disk to grow the containing extended partition to the end of the disk.
We've Improved the support for meta block groups on Linux EXT2+ formatted file-systems. Previously, fragmented Group Descriptors could cause the file system to show as unformatted
Macrium Reflect General
The trial registration process could be blocked on Server 2003. This has been resolved.
In dark mode, the Mount Exchange Backup dialog's backup tree was not being themed correctly. This has been resolved.
On the Scripts tab, the Add Script button will now always be enabled.
'mrauto.exe' caused Reflect to fail to start when using invalid chars in backup filename. This has been resolved.
A different backup file could be selected in Existing backups view after cancelling Run backup/Edit Comment/etc. This has been resolved.
Macrium Image Guardian
The Image Guardian Settings Events tab would not auto populate with Windows Events. This issue has been resolved.
Various
Various other minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.7167 - 25th November 2022
Technician's USB Media
Expired technician's media would pop up "Technicians' media has expired" message box twice. This has been resolved.
Imaging
We've improved the speed of loading Delta Indexes when there are many Incremental backups in a backup set.
Drive Letters were not shown in the Partition Layout view for Dynamic Disk volumes. This has been resolved.
Reflect Home or Workstation would show ReFS file systems as "Unformatted". ReFS is now displayed correctly, however, please note that you need Reflect Server or Server Plus for 'intelligent sector copy' images of ReFS formatted drives.
Macrium Reflect General
When creating a backup, it was possible to paste in a filename that contained invalid characters. This is now resolved.
Reflect maintains a "Recent backup destinations" list for searching existing backups. Occasionally, under certain usage scenarios, the selection state of some of the check boxes on this list could not be remembered. This is now resolved.
Leading and trailing spaces are now trimmed for file path edit boxes.
ReflectMonitor did not display the Current Progress for Automatic Verification. This has been resolved.
Various
Various other minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
Macrium Reflect Patch Details Macrium Reflect Free - Service Announcement
This is to notify that Macrium Reflect Free Edition is being retired. Security patches will be provided until 1st January 2024, but there are no planned feature changes or non security related updates following this update.
Note: This notice only applies to Macrium Reflect Free.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.7175 - 26th November 2022
ReflectMonitor
After updating to v8.0.7167, ReflectMonitor would not activate using the Hot-Key sequence, and the Taskbar toast notifications could fail to show. This has been resolved.
Dark Theme
We've fixed an issue with the Dark Theme drawing in the Rescue Media Builder advanced properties.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.7279 - 10th January 2023
viBoot
VirtualBox VMs sometime would not show in viBoot GUI. This has been resolved.
Imaging
When reading some Bitlocker volumes, Reflect could attempt to allocate an erroneously large block of memory. This has been resolved.
System Restore
Staging a system restore from Windows would sometimes fail to automatically reboot after the restore completed within the rescue environment. This has been resolved.
General
Lower than actual write speed values were shown in Disk Write Performance tool. This has been resolved.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.1.7280 - 10th January 2023
Macrium Reflect v8.1 is here
We're pleased to announce the public release of Macrium Reflect v8.1. Please see here for more information.
viBoot
VirtualBox VMs sometime would not show in viBoot GUI. This has been resolved.
Imaging
When reading some Bitlocker volumes, Reflect could attempt to allocate an erroneously large block of memory. This has been resolved.
System Restore
Staging a system restore from Windows would sometimes fail to automatically reboot after the restore completed within the rescue environment. This has been resolved.
Macrium Image Guardian
During data de-duplication operations on Windows Server, the File Server Data Management Host (FSDMHOST.EXE) process would be blocked from opening Reflect image files. This has been resolved.
General
Lower than actual write speed values were shown in Disk Write Performance tool. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media
We've updated the Windows PE 10 download to version 2004.
viBoot
We've added VirtualBox 7.0 support to viBoot.
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.1.7378 - 13th February 2023
Disk Images
Some customers have reported a slower backup speed to mechanical HDD. This has been improved.
Incorrect transfer rates were reported for split file backups where automatic file verification was enabled. This has been resolved
Images could fail with 'unknown error' if the CPU priority slider was at the lowest or second to lowest setting. This has been resolved
When restoring partition(s) to an MBR disk with logical partition(s) at the front of the disk, the extended partition could be incorrectly extended to beyond the start of the next primary partition. This has been resolved.
Server Plus
ESENT.dll could cause a program exception when Reflect starts. This has been resolved.
Since MR is killing of the Free version, I will not be updating this thread anymore, as because there will be no free version, I cannot recommend this software anymore., sorry.
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