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Drive Eraser 6.7.0 / Configuration Tool 2.6.0 - Release notes

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-6002 - Improving the detection of faulty drives / Hotplug timeout.
- Configurable timeout to detect a hotplugged drive. Can help to spot faulty drives more easily.
ALBUS-5249, ALBUST-469 - Hardware diagnostics: Webcam.
- New hardware diagnostic for the webcam.
ALBUS-5495, ALBUST-476 - Detect and erase attached flash devices.
- The software warns the user in case flash devices (SD cards, USB sticks) are detected. They can also be erased if the setting is enabled.
ALBUS-6003 - Two-way communication: job specification on the drive level.
- The Two-Way Communication process has been expanded to loose drives connected to an erasure station.
ALBUS-6025 - Two-way communication: show the completed process without turning off the asset.
- The job specification can now be configured to let the machine turned on (idling) after a completed process.
ALBUS-3841, ALBUST-80 - Time zone support for reports.
- BDE has time zone support for reports. Also, the date/time/time zone are shown beside the icons in the user interface.
ALBUS-6001, ALBUST-475 - Support for Slovak language.
- New language support, the user interface is now translated in Slovak.

Bug fixes/Improvements:

ALBUS-6126 - Improving the execution of the Sanitize Overwrite command on SAS HDDs.
ALBUS-5853 - Support for the RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
ALBUS-5087 - SATA drives behind PERC H700 Integrated MegaRAID SAS controller were not properly detected and erased.
ALBUS-5536 - Drives behind Adaptec ServeRAID 8k/8k-l8 controllers were not being detected at all.
ALBUS-6007 - Drives connected first were occasionally duplicated in the UI whereas drives connected afterwards were not detected.
ALBUS-5890, ALBUS-5909 - Better handling of special characters in custom fields and customer/operator fields.
ALBUS-6084 - Improvements to prevent displaying and erasing the internal SSD.
ALBUS-6093 - A verification following a firmware-based erasure could get stuck on low capacity drives (less than 16GB).
ALBUS-6113 - Exporting reports from the embedded BMC to a USB stick failed.
ALBUS-6146 - Adding additional erasure details in the report (on images having a special customization).
ALBUS-6153 - The erasure progress got stuck at 0% when a 100% verification was selected (6.7alpha releases only).
ALBUS-5070 - Some CD and DVD readers failed the optical read test if an erasure was running.
ALBUS-5684 -The battery test was successful even if no voltage was detected.
ALBUS-5953 - Laptop battery was still detected even after being removed (occurred on HP EliteBook 820 G3).
ALBUS-6098 -In case of a verification failure, the number of processed sectors was sometimes not updated.
ALBUS-6047 - Fixing the support of Intel's VPRO technology (remote booting was failing).
ALBUS-5862 - Dell Precision 5520 could not be booted.
ALBUS-4805 - The touchpad could not be used as a button or for scrolling.
ALBUS-6012, ALBUS-6011, ALBUS-6010, ALBUS-4730 - Small fixes in the user interface (missing localizations in the UI and report, small glitches when erasing partitions).
ALBUS-5709 - On some machines, the SD card was detected as an eMMC and the normal drive (HDD, SSD) was duplicated in the report.
ALBUS-5096 - The focus was not on the first custom field in case the Customer and Operator legacy fields were disabled.
ALBUS-4716 - The battery test was successful even if the capacity ratio was above 100%.
ALBUS-6199 - There was a misleading message in the UI (BMC icon) if the BMC credentials were wrong.
ALBUS-5210 - A message is displayed at boot time in case the memory test is enabled and running.
ALBUS-6051 - The option to save "PDF only" reports has been removed. Choose the option "XML+PDF" instead.
ALBUST-455 - Unifying the way numerical settings are handled in BDECT.

Known issues:

ALBUS-6126, ALBUS-6142 - HP MM1000JEFRB SAS disks behind a HPE Smart Array P408i-a disappear after a Sanitize Overwrite command.
ALBUS-6166 - Wireless connectivity does not work on Dell Precision 5520.
ALBUS-6210 - Disk IDs in the erasure view can occasionally be mixed up if flash devices are detected.

Recommendations:

ALBUS-5884, ALBUS-5969, ALBUS-5793 - Several HP Zbook models cannot boot BDE unless the booting parameter "nouveau.modeset=0" is entered.