Drive Eraser 7.4.0 and Configuration Tool 3.4.0 - Release notes
Features:
ALBUS-8658 - Enhanced Grid-view.
ALBUS-8589 - Run Workflow actions in parallel.
ALBUS-9021 - New Workflow action: Send issue report.
ALBUS-8158, ALBUST-986 - Apply static network settings to all network adapters.
ALBUS-7678, ALBUST-984 - Configure the default option to change the storage controller mode.
ALBUS-8912, ALBUS-9164, ALBUS-6902 - New kernel update.
Improvements and Bug fixes:
ALBUS-9168, ALBUST-1018 - New BDE and BDECT banners with color gradients and new Blancco logo with colors.
ALBUS-8949 - Improved fix on drive detection issues on HP CL5200 machines (LSI SAS9300-8e controller).
ALBUS-9139, ALBUS-9177, ALBUS-9197, ALBUS-9020 - Fixing some occasional crashes (verification step after a firmware-based erasure command; curl-related; occurring during a Sanitize Overwrite command; fatal errors seen on idling machines).
ALBUS-9131 - Some remotely controlled BDE sessions were disappearing from the BMC and reappearing 30 minutes later.
ALBUS-9018 - BDE required one asset license to upload erasure reports (OLUT licensing).
ALBUS-9170 - Improving the Screensaver progress bar, especially when drives with different sizes are erased in parallel.
Drives' capacities and individual progresses are considered to show a smooth and accurate progress.
ALBUS-9220 - When BDE was configured in "Report per connected devices" mode and ran a Workflow where the operator had to fill in a custom field, the custom field icon (inside the drive box) was not updated.
ALBUS-9192 - The freeze lock removal procedure is not attempted anymore in case there is an ongoing erasure.
ALBUS-9075 - Implementing the dismantling of HP Smart Array Gen 10 controllers (e.g., E208i-a, P408i-p).
ALBUS-9212 - Fixing some report related issues where executing successfully "NIST 800-88 Purge" or "Blancco SSD Erasure" would result in reports not showing the messages "DCO/HPA area was erased".
ALBUS-9331 - Some internal files inside BDE 7 have been renamed.
This requires modifying the menus in case v7.4.0 is network booted.
ALBUS-9048 - Enabling predictable network interface naming in BDE.
ALBUS-9371, ALBUS-9357, ALBUS-9256, ALBUS-9057 - Fixing network booting issues: if the network adapter to use was not detected properly, no retry was attempted.
ALBUS-9324 - A crash report saved on a USB stick was sometimes truncated.
ALBUS-7785, ALBUS-8905, ALBUS-8904, ALBUS-9185, ALBUS-8903, ALBUS-8906, ALBUS-8907 - The drive was not detected on some machines (HP 14s-fq0020sa, HP 15s-fq2024na, HP 15-eh0002-sa, HP 15s fq2014na, HP 14s fq0017na, HP x360 14-dw1012na, Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14ADA05, Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 1 11.6").
ALBUS-8876 - The battery was not detected consistently on MacBooks from 2019.
ALBUS-9019 - The webcam was not detected on Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 tablet.
ALBUS-9125 - Improving the erasure and verification performance of "NIST 800-88 Purge" on various NVMe drives.
ALBUS-9175 - Implementing a better way to detect if a Sanitize command is running on an ATA drive.
ALBUS-9172 - Improving the BMC reconnection after a crash.
ALBUS-9062 - Drives behind controller LSI SAS 9201-16e were not detected (problem occurred in v7.2.0 and v7.3.1).
ALBUS-9031 - Fixing an issue where software metadata would end up on erased drives.
ALBUS-9100 - The "TCG password" icon is now yellow (not red anymore).
ALBUS-9090 - If the Battery Discharge test fails because the charger is reconnected too early, the report informs about this ("Charger reconnected before the end of the test").
ALBUS-9043 - The Hardware Tests are sorted alphabetically in the UI (first the automatic tests, then the manual tests).
ALBUS-9044 - A process set to "Automatic" will fall back to "Manual" once completed.
ALBUS-8884 - Fixing inconsistencies in the erasure progress shown in the BDE UI (drive progress, screensaver) and in the BMC UI (monitoring, Combined mode, remote control).
ALBUS-9325, ALBUS-9359 - Some changes in the boot menus (fixing some issues with the BDE booting menus shown when used with BUSBC; showing two additional menus - "Reboot" and "Power off" - in case the machine is in "Legacy BIOS" mode and booted as a whole e.g., via a CD).
ALBUS-9184 - BDE needs to allocate some memory to store additional data in case of a crash.
This memory can be allocated via the boot parameter cow_space.
ALBUS-9054 - The XML report contains some additional "id" fields to easily find information from specific network interfaces or usb_devices sub-elements.
ALBUS-9215, ALBUS-9116, ALBUS-9188, ALBUS-9202 - Fixing some UI issues (issues with localizations and tooltips; the System Tray could get blocked in "BMC remote" mode; the Screensaver would not be automatically triggered in "Combined" mode).
Blancco Drive Eraser version 7.4.0 and Drive Eraser Configuration Tool 3.4.0 have been released!
Drive Eraser 7.4.0 and Configuration Tool 3.4.0 - Release notes
Features:
Improvements and Bug fixes: