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Drive Eraser 6.6.1 / Configuration Tool 2.5.1 - Release notes

Important: Due to a new report digital signature, the Blancco Drive Eraser v6.6.x releases 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.x, 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.x.
BDE 6.6.x have the same hardware support than BDE 6.5.2; you can still use v6.5.2 in Production during the time you need to migrate to BMC 4.8.0.
The BMC 4.8.0 is fully compatible with BDE 6.6.x as well as with older BDE releases (< 6.6.0).

Bug fixes / Improvements:

ALBUS-6021 - Improved reporting of self-test results in both the PDF and XML reports.
- New sections informing on the attempted test type (short, extended, conveyance) and its status (successful, failed).
ALBUS-4808 - Support for the Broadcom BCM57788 Ethernet controller.
- The controller was detected but the network connectivity did not work.
- Fully supported now.
ALBUS-5954 - The report was occasionally displaying the BIOS time instead of the BMC or HASP dongle time.
- Now, the BMC/HASP time is always used if detected, even if the HASP is disconnected or the network connection is lost.
ALBUS-5443 - Custom fields defined with a regular expression have their predefined values cleared during the bootup.
- Predefined values do not necessarily verify the regular expression and can end up in the final report.
ALBUS-5895 - Disks behind a Smart Array P420 controller were erased at a low speed (< 1 MB/s).
- The average erasure speed is now 50 MB/s.
ALBUS-5778 - During an SSD erasure, a failed verification after an optional Cryptographic Erasure could fail the whole erasure.
- Now, both the CE and its subsequent verification are optional: if they fail, the erasure will continue and will attempt other commands.
ALBUS-6020 - Glitch when selecting self-tests on drives from the BDE UI.
- Some other erasure options were occasionally disappearing.
ALBUS-5920 - The verification was calculating errors based on sector chunks instead of individual sectors.
- Occurred in 6.6.0, relates to ALBUS-5696 (threshold on read errors).
ALBUS-6019 - The verification was sometimes failing when the amount of read errors was beneath the threshold.
- Occurred in 6.6.0, relates to ALBUS-5696 (threshold on read errors).
ALBUS-6004 - Problem with the NIST fallback (purge to clear) that was not available after the erasure was resumed.
ALBUS-5941 - Some special symbols (< and >) where not rendered properly in the XML report.
- Those symbols are skipped from the report.
ALBUST-467 - Image configuration Improvements to configure an image that installs the "HW Edition" on a machine.

Known issues:

ALBUS-6093, ALBUS-6101 - There exist some corner cases regarding the reporting of failed sectors during the verification.
- They are currently investigated and will be fixed in the next release.