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title: "Blancco Management Console version 5.3.0 has been released!"
canonical: "https://support.blancco.com/space/NEWS/blog/11309637/Blancco%20Management%20Console%20version%205.3.0%20has%20been%20released!"
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Management Console 5.3.0 - Release notes

**Highlighted features:**

- **MC-6074** - Adding new features to the dashboard and existing BI widgets.
  - New widgets added: Report Field; Mobile Device count; Minor changes to the old widgets.
  - The new widgets will work only if Elasticsearch is enabled.
  - For the Blancco Cloud it is enabled by default.
- **MC-6100** - Support for BMDE - Device Image Validation licenses was adde.
- **MC-6134** - Closed RMI Registry port.
  - BMC security was improved by closing RMI default port.
- **MC-6012** - UI and API for managing workflow storage.
  - Workflow storage is now introduced in MC.
  - BMDE will utilize the functionality via MC.
- **MC-6021** - Drive Eraser - Server Edition renamed to Drive Eraser - Volume Edition.

**Known issues:**

- **MC-6215** - In License History Reporting, managers created after license consumption may see results inconsistently w.r.t date range.
  - If a manager is created into a group that has existing license consumption events, those may not be visible in the expected way when date range filtering is used.
- **MC-6210** - The top-list in the Report field widget is not sorted.

**Bug fixes:**

- **MC-5972** - Unable to update BMC from version 4.5.2 and 4.8.1 to either version 5.1 or 5.1.1.
- **MC-6082** - BMC 3.8.1 cannot be updated to 5.2.0 (version verification failed).
- **MC-6083** - API labels missing since cloud update from 22 September.