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title: "Blancco Management Console version 5.0 has been released!"
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Management Console 5.0 - Release notes

**Highlighted features:**

- **MC-5592** - Automatic Report Archiving (ARA).
  - Configuration is available only through main.properties file.
- **MC-5781** - Verification percentage in PDF reports.
  - Displays verification percentage used within the erasure results section of BDE, LUN and BRME reports.
  - Viewing reports in browser does not include the verification percentage, only in PDF exports.
- **MC-5637** - Drop group name unique constraint.
  - Group name uniqueness is not anymore restricted.
  - They must be named uniquely only in relation to their sibling.
- **MC-5778** - Erasure report notification in Two Way Communication.
  - Whenever MC receives an erasure report from job spec driven erasure client, the event will be notified to AMS.
- **MC-5714** - Elasticsearch availability for Standalone installations.
  - When enabled, Management Console will copy report data into Elasticsearch service and utilize it in report searches.
  - This will drastically decrease load in relational database side.
  - Upon installation there is an option to enable Elasticsearch feature. When enabled it is not possible to disable it anymore, unless a new installation is done.
  - It is recommended to enable it only if reports exceed millions to perform the search faster.
- **MC-5741** - Dropping MySQL support.
  - Dropping MySQL support from the installer.
  - MC 5.0 onwards installer does not offer MySQL as an option in the database selection.
  - In addition, this applies also to updates, i.e., old installations with MySQL database cannot anymore be updated to MC 5.0 or newer.

**Known issues:**

- **MC-5829** - Enable and fix report editing.
  - Report edits is disabled with 5.0 as we found minor issues.
  - Report edit feature will be enabled back with the 5.0.1 minor release by the end of April, 2019.