Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• SQL Clone will now try to update the status of a completed operation server-side up to three times to avoid rare inconsistencies between physical data and what is stored in the configuration database.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with updating the web UI about certain non-user-facing operations.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• The SQL Clone PowerShell module version now always matches the version of SQL Clone when downloaded.
• Creating images from a live database will now record some additional diagnostic information about the VSS process.
• Increased logging when accessing WMI repository during image creation.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue creating clones from the image details page.
• Fixed an issue preventing the web UI from rendering in IE11.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Made error handling between server and clients more consistent.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with creating FILESTREAM images with modifications on remote file shares.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Features

• SQL Clone Server can no longer be installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R1 or earlier.
• SQL Clone Server now targets Microsoft .NET Core 3.1.
• SQL Clone Agents still use Microsoft .NET Framework, so their requirements are unchanged.

Fixes

• Updated the dependencies on lodash-es after a security vulnerability was disclosed.

Fixes

• Fixed a problem that occurred when upgrading to the latest version of the PowerShell module.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Fixed an endless loading spinner while uploading a modification script on the web UI.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Features

• Added warning in the server's web UI that support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 is ending in the next minor version of SQL Clone because it will be targeting .NET Core 3.1. It will only be displayed for affected Windows versions.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that would prevent sending large script modification log files from an agent to the server.

Fixes

• Reverted the behavior when opening an operation's log file in the UI, so it is opened in a new tab instead of being downloaded.

Fixes

• Improved error messaging for Connect-SqlClone cmdlet.
• Improved handling of a rare error condition ("Cannot write a null value for property 'latestOperation'" issue).

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Improves logging output in certain error cases during clone operations.

Fixes

• Improved web UI's handling of unusual HTTP responses from the Clone server.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Fixed a UI-side presentation issue when deleting a team.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with various agent-side operations when SqlExceptions are thrown.

Features

• Updated SQL Data Catalog integration to work with SQL Data Catalog 1.9. (Older versions of SQL Data Catalog are still supported).

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Fixed a problem that caused clone creation to fail when SQL Server was set to Force Encryption.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue making image or clone template creation requests with large modification scripts.

Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue with modification scripts (InvalidDataException issue).

Fixes

• When running the PowerShell cmdlet Get-SqlServerInstances, an error will no longer be shown if one of the SQL Server Instances is associated with an agent that has been deleted from SQL Clone.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Features

• SQL Clone's client endpoint (port 14145) now uses ASP.Net Core.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Features

• Updated SQL Data Catalog integration to work with SQL Data Catalog 1.8. Older versions of SQL Data Catalog are still supported.

Fixes

• Fixed some logging around clone detachment during network failures.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Improved behavior around temporary SQL Server users for running modifications to reduce the risk of a name conflict.

Features

• I/O exceptions in agent operations (e.g. image deletion) that fail due to a file or folder being locked now attempt to include locker process information in logs and exception reports.

Fixes

• Fixes and improvements to the analytics library regarding how composite exceptions are handled and the rate limiting behavior.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• The agent will now log to fallback-log-file.log in the normal agent logging folder if unable to write to the event log.

Features

• SQL Clone will now attempt a limited number of retries when getting disk objects associated with a mounted disk image.

Features

• When multiple errors occur in a SQL Clone operation, the web client's activity log will display each of the failure messages (the logs still contain the full details).

Fixes

• Connect-SqlClone cmdlet can now output the received response in case it contains unexpected data (for example, because of a firewall redirect).

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Improved error messages when the PowerShell client fails to connect.

Fixes

• Additional logging for WMI errors in Agent.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where license activation errors would not be displayed on the UI.

Fixes

• Fixed a browser lockup that could occur on the image review page for standard users.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where an error message wasn't being shown on the UI during instance access validation.

Fixes

• Raise minor errors during an image creation clean up as warnings instead of failing the operation completely.

Fixes

• Added a retry for clean up after an image creation.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where server logs would not be gathered when downloading logs via the UI.

Features

• Added warning in the server's web UI that support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ending in the next major version of SQL Clone (in servers and agents running those operating systems).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented installation of new SQL Clone agents.
• Fixed an issue that prevented configuring the server using the SQL Clone Server Setup wizard.

Fixes

• SQL Clone's agent endpoint (port 14146) now uses ASP.Net Core.
  Users with agents on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 may see multiple versions of an agent running after the update. If you are affected by this see: Redgate's troubleshooting guide.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Features

• An option to compact a new image after running modifications is now available when creating an image in web UI.

Features

• The New-SqlCloneImage PowerShell cmdlet now supports image file compaction. This feature requires the SQL Clone agent machine to be running on Windows 8 / Server 2012 or later.

Fixes

• Added diagnostic logging around update checks.

Fixes

• Renaming a clone now checks for a clone name conflict before initiating the operation.
• Get-SqlClone Powershell command now throws an exception when -Name or -Location parameter is null instead of returning all clones.

Fixes

• On the SQL Clone dashboard, a group will now only auto-expand if it is the only one, and contains fewer than 200 items.

Fixes

• Added documentation links in the web UI to provide more information around SQL scripts when creating a new image or clone template.

Fixes

• Increased logging around potential error cases in check-for-updates behaviour.

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

Fixes

• When trying to delete a clone from a freshly disconnected agent the server will correctly fall back to a logical deletion now.
• Extended fix for the issue in PowerShell when querying for clones or images in certain circumstances ('could not convert [...] to OperationType').

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in PowerShell when querying for clones or images in certain circumstances ('could not convert [...] to OperationType'). If experiencing this issue, please update your cmdlets.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that displayed image creation dates on the UI off by one month.

Features

• SQL Clone now supports Data Masker v7.

Fixes

• Internal improvements and updates.

Fixes

• Improved operation progress reporting stability.

Fixes

• Improved robustness of agent auto-update.

Fixes

• Handle COM exceptions in Active Domain group information retrieval.

Fixes

• Trying to get a non-existant clone from a specific instance using the powershell commandlet (e.g. Get-SqlClone -Name $DBName -Location $sqlServerInstance) now returns a more informative exception.
• Handle failures in Active Domain group information retrieval.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue during clone reset ('the connection is closed').
• Fixed an issue where the agent wasn't releasing threads.

Features

• Clones can now be renamed by clicking on their name on the dashboard and image details page.
• Added a new Rename-SqlClone cmdlet, allowing existing clone databases to be renamed via PowerShell.

Fixes

• Fixed an intermittent issue when creating fairly large (more than 1 TB) images ('Parameter is incorrect').

Fixes

• Improved user experience when enabling/disabling permissions.
• Fixed the issue that prevented users from disabling the teams feature.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could occasionally prevent Clone updates from being discovered.
• Increase the total number of clones in UI from 500 to 1000.
• Fixed an issue when it wasn't possible to add more than a single user to a team.
• Fixed a rare issue when upgrading to 4.0.9 with teams feature enabled.

Fixes

• Updated the Feedback button style and position.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with updating SQL Clone server installed in a non-default path to v4.0.1 or later.

Features

• New option to "soft delete" an image by removing its metadata from the SQL Clone server if the corresponding agent is not available.

Fixes

• Stop sending clone status to WebUI when there is no change.

Fixes

• Feedback button position was inconsistent across IE, Chrome and Firefox.
• Improved the error message returned when CSRF validation errors occur to link to relevant documentation.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue preventing agents from being silently installed with certain parameters.

Fixes

• Fixed a deserialization error when using Get-SqlCloneTeam.

Features

• SQL Clone now uses only FIPS compliant encryption and hashing algorithms.

Features

• Increases the size limit for image modification files in the UI, allowing e.g. larger masking sets to be uploaded.

Fixes

• The group icon is now shown again for Active Directory groups on the SQL Clone users page.
• Failure to clean up temporary users/logins when running SQL script modifications will now be logged and will not suppress reporting of any underlying error.
• The activity log and PowerShell cmdlets now show a reason for failure when an operation could not be started because the required agent is offline.

Features

• You can now choose a color during team creation.
• PowerShell cmdlets now require .NET Framework 4.7.2.

Fixes

• Hotfix for taking a long time to get SQL Clone users (There is a current known issue that all users show a group icon in the SQL Clone users page).

Features

• Control which instances specific users can use to create clones and images, enabling safe self-service and delegation for DevOps and CI.
• Maintain images with different levels of sensitivity or data masking for different users.
• Allow people working on different projects to use the same SQL Clone installation without seeing instances, images and clones that aren't relevant to them.
• Assign teams to new images as part of your automation scripts to make them available to the right users straight away.

Fixes

• Tooltips displayed on icons are now centered.
• Fixed a UI crash in IE11 during the image creation workflow.
• Size limit value not shown in total modification size exceeded error message in Create Templates form.