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Version: 2.8

What's new in 2.8.3?

Stay updated with the latest features, enhancements and bug fixes in our product. Here's what's new:​

Version 2.8.3 – Released on Feb 12, 2025​

Features​

  • Health Check: the health check feature enhances pre-installation and upgrade validations, including Kubernetes version checks, storage class validation, and blocking unsupported upgrade paths. It simplifies debugging with detailed reports, user-friendly error messages, and helm enhancements, to ensure smoother deployments. Besides, health check enhances user experience in install and upgrade scenarios.

  • Parallel Backup Schedule: this feature ensures that scheduled backups occur at every scheduled interval, even if the previous backup is still in progress. It allows subsequent backups to start as long as all Portworx volume snapshots are complete and the user has opted for parallel backup schedules.

Enhancements​

  • Email Alerts with SMTP TLS: this enhancement improves email security by enabling encrypted connections using STARTTLS and custom certificates. With this improvement, users can ensure compliance with organizational security standards by uploading their own certificates, including CA certificates. It supports secure communication over commonly used SMTP ports (25, 465, and 587) and ensures robust encryption for email validation and transmission.

  • Kubervirt enhancements: Portworx Backup now enables you to back up and restore VirtualMachineInstancetype, VirtualMachinePreference and NetworkAttachmentDefinition Kubevirt VM resources in your VM backup environment.

  • Argo CD Mode of Deployment: you can now install Portworx Backup with Argo CD in simple steps by setting few parameters during deployment. This enhancement brings a GitOps-driven approach to manage data protection and ensures that backup policies, schedules, and configurations are applied consistently across environments.

Bug fixes​

What's new in 2.8.2?

Version 2.8.2 – Released on January 24, 2024​

Bug fix​

What's new in 2.8.1?

Version 2.8.1 – Released on Dec 13, 2024​

Enhancements​

  • Azure Kubelogin: Portworx Backup now supports Azure kubelogin, enabling secure, token-based authentication for AKS clusters via Azure AD.

  • Ansible Collection: the PXB Ansible collection automates Portworx Backup tasks like scheduling, credential setup, and cluster management.

  • Backup API: PXB adds API enhancements for resource type retrieval and exclusion in backups and schedules.

Bug fixes​

What's new in 2.8.0?

Version 2.8.0 – Released on Nov 22, 2024​

New Features​

  • Share Clusters: you can now securely share and manage clusters for seamless collaboration and data protection.

  • Super Administrator: a new role in PXB to enable centralized control for unified management of clusters, users, RBAC, and non-RBAC PXB resources.

Enhancements​

  • Concurrent Deletion of Backups: accelerate backup delete management with parallel deletion, optimizing efficiency and effective handling of dependencies.

  • Azure Proxy Parameters: streamline Azure proxy configurations with PXB's new inclusion and exclusion parameters, offering precise control over service-specific and proxy settings.

Bug fixes​

Portworx Backup is a Kubernetes backup solution that allows you to back up and restore applications and their data across multiple clusters.

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