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  • The booting animation is now back in Blancco Drive Eraser. This animation is a good indication for users that the booting process is ongoing and is not frozen. Available with the booting options "Normal startup (safe resolution)", "Normal startup (native resolution)", "FLR at startup".
  • Fix for a problem where NVMe drives where not detected (e.g. on Microsoft Surface Pro 4, Apple Macbook A1534, etc.). The "NVMe SSD erasure" feature includes detection and erasure for NVMe drives (not detected in earlier releases).
  • Fix for a problem where two hybrid drives (Toshiba MQ02ABD100H - 1TB and Toshiba MQ02ABF050H - 500GB) where detected as SSDs. Adding these 2 models in the list of known hybrid drives.
  • Fix for a problem where a normal drive (Seagate ST500LM021) was detected as a hybrid drive. Removing this model from the list of known hybrid drives.
  • Fix for a problem where the HASP dongle was not detected by the Blancco hardware appliance. Occurred in some hardware appliance models only.
  • Fix for a problem where the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 keyboard and touchpad were not functional.
  • Fix for a problem where the erasure of large SAS SSD drives with "Blancco SSD Erasure" hanged at 17%. Occurred with some SAS drives having a special formatting.
  • Fix for a problem where large numeric values in the XML report broke the MC communication (report could not be sent). MC cannot accept such large numeric values, therefore the report is not accepted and the sending fails. The fix: whenever Drive Eraser detects a large (abnormal) numeric value in the XML report, the whole tag/line is removed (the value is anyway bad and should not be stored in the MC).
  • Fix for a problem where the MC/Cloud communication would not work in case there was an empty/undefined license container for traditional erasure licenses. This covers a case where a customer is delivered e.g. asset licenses or licenses to erase special drives without licenses for traditional erasures.
  • Fix for a problem where the UI kept swapping from the mouse cursor to the hourglass, making any interaction with the software pretty difficult. The problem originated from a failing MC communication due to a missing license container. Drive Eraser catches now the error which does not bother the UI anymore.
  • Fix for a problem where Blancco 5/Drive Eraser consumed two DHCP leases. The software used on occasions two separate IP-addresses per network interface.
  • Fix for a problem where, after a successful firmware-based erasure, the report stated "HPA area content could not be erased" when in reality it was erased. In this case, the wrong message "HPA area content could not be erased" has been replaced with the correct "HPA area content was erased".
  • Fix for a problem where the erasure of SATA drives connected to LSI MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 / 1078 controllers hanged at 0%.

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