Important: Due to a new report digital signature, the Blancco Drive Eraser releases v6.6.0 and higher are not compatible with the Blancco Management Console 4.7.1 or lower (report importing and sending will fail consistently).
If you are using a local BMC and want to upgrade to BDE 6.6.0 or higher, please upgrade first to BMC 4.8.0 or higher.
If you are using the Blancco Cloud, it is fully compatible with BDE 6.6.0 and higher.
The BMC 4.8.0 and higher are fully compatible with all BDE releases (< 6.6.0 and >= 6.6.0).
Features:
ALBUS-2034, ALBUST-498 - Ability to format a drive after the erasure.
There is an option to reformat the drive after the erasure has taken place. For ATA drives only, the available formats are exFAT, FAT32 and NTFS.
ALBUS-5675 - Placeholders in the UI for empty erasure bays.
There is a new UI mode in the Erasure-step ("Show/Hide empty slots") that can display the empty erasure bays, empty bays are shown as "empty slot" placeholders.
ALBUS-6023 - Port mapping for erasure stations.
If BDE_HW is installed on a generic machine (not a Blancco hardware appliance), it will remember the first port mapping (between the physical drives and the drives displayed in the UI) on subsequent boots.
ALBUS-6024 - Show more drives in the UI.
More drives are now visible in the UI: 1-12 devices can be displayed without scrolling (and more on higher resolutions). The "Erasure Options" can be also be collapsed/expanded to free some space.
ALBUS-6185, ALBUS-6243 - Reporting additional system information.
Detecting and reporting the System SKU Number and the System Information Version.
ALBUS-6115 - Highlight mandatory custom fields.
Mandatory custom fields are now highlighted with a red border.
ALBUS-6382, ALBUS-6202, ALBUS-6282 - Improving the detection of video cards information.
The video card RAM and model detection has been improved on Nvidia, AMD and Intel video cards.
ALBUS-6048, ALBUS-6250, ALBUS-6251, ALBUST-499, ALBUST-507, ALBUST-509 - Support for additional languages.
The user interface is now localized in Polish and Hungarian. In addition, the user manual and the UI embedded help are now available in Slovak.
Bug fixes & Improvements:
ALBUS-5675, ALBUS-6023, ALBUS-6024 -As part of the UI improvements on this release, the default "Standard" UI mode of the Erasure-step has been removed. The only mode available in generic images is the "Advanced" mode.
ALBUS-6058 - When run, the drive SMART test has a status (successful or failed). This status is colored in green or red in the UI and PDF reports.
ALBUS-6035 - The subvendor_id, subdevice_id and subvendor_name information is fetched and reported for storage controllers, network interfaces, video cards and sound cards.
ALBUS-5957, ALBUS-5884 - Several models (e.g. Dell G3 3779 laptop, HP ZBook - MWS-041-Zbook 17 Mobile Workstation) were not able to boot BDE or the software was crashing one minute after booting (kernel panic).
ALBUS-6217 - Self-encrypting drives Samsung SATA SSD 840 PRO Series could not be purged (machine ended up in a black screen).
ALBUS-6200 - Improving the communication with the BMC in case the credentials were wrong and could lock the BMC account.
ALBUS-6308 - Improving the software stability not to crash it when disconnecting a drive during the verification phase.
ALBUS-5188 - The exception message "Remapped sectors area was not erased by the user" was sometimes not shown on old BDE versions.
ALBUS-5773 - Physical drives were not detected in Dell R440 server with PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC H740P).
ALBUS-6312 - Improving the OPAL cryptographic erasure support in case the command return code is not OK.
ALBUS-5849 - BDE could not boot on AMD Ryzen 3 2200G.
ALBUS-6022 - There was a drive duplication in the ASUS T100TA tablet.
ALBUS-6299 - BDE could not boot on Lenovo L520 / L420.
ALBUS-5294 - If the "Erasure resume" feature was enabled and only one partition was being erased, the whole disk was erased after the erasure resumed.
ALBUS-6379 - The software was occasionally crashing during the Optical Drive test.
ALBUS-6450 - The software was occasionally crashing during the erasure (witnessed on a Sun Fire x4270 M3 with 4x 200Gb SATA SSDs erased with "NIST 800-88 Purge", crash occurred at ~30% of the erasure).
ALBUS-6360 - The booting worked fine but was slow on HP EliteBook 840 G1 and EliteBook 8460p machines.
ALBUS-6334 - The network connection was lost on machines with the Ethernet controller Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10).
ALBUS-6431 - Removing from the report a "4096KB, Non-Volatile, Chip" from "Unknown Vendor" that was marked as RAM.
ALBUS-6455 - Occasionally, the "Open printer settings" button was missing from the "Settings" dialog window.
ALBUS-6479 - Drives were not shown in the UI on Dell R740xd with H740P Mini.
Please request the Detailed Release Notes from your Sales or Support Representative.
Blancco Drive Eraser version 6.9.0 and Drive Eraser Configuration Tool 2.9.0 has been released!
Important: Due to a new report digital signature, the Blancco Drive Eraser releases v6.6.0 and higher are not compatible with the Blancco Management Console 4.7.1 or lower (report importing and sending will fail consistently).
Features:
Bug fixes & Improvements:
Please request the Detailed Release Notes from your Sales or Support Representative.