Release Notes: IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server, High-Speed Transfer Endpoint, and Desktop Client, 4.4.3

New features

Added support to Watchfolders for using multi-session mode for transfers in parallel. (Aspera #20)

Added a new configuration option 'db_cert_file' to specify the certificate that is used to enable and verify TLS connections to the configured Redis server. (Aspera #807)

Added support for specifying URIs as source and destinations in async. (Aspera #991)

Added support to async to use local Basic and Bearer tokens. (Aspera #992)

Added support for reporting HTTP fallback transfers activity through the Node API. (Aspera #1133)

SSH Pull watchfolder to work without a token. (Aspera #1191)

Added support for newer algorithms that allow the transfer tools to connect as clients to servers that require rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 signatures on public and private key authentication. (Aspera #1484)

Added support for specifying a replacement character in asperatrapd if object names contain XML control characters. (Aspera #1550)

Added additional settings to the pvcl_cloud library to control how it connects to Cloud Object Storage servers. (Aspera #1691)

Added support to async to use Node user bearer tokens for transfer authorization. (Aspera #1726)

Issues fixed in this release

Aspera #69 - Fixed an issue where transfers that are returned by /ops/transfers using iteration tokens might return inconsistent or duplicate results.

Aspera #838 - Fixed an issue where access keys might not be updated to modify the credentials if the previous credentials had expired.

Aspera #850 - Fixed an issue where configuration setting in aspera.conf associated with a Local Group in a domain environment would not be applied.

Aspera #887 - Reduced the default verbosity of the log messages generated by the pvcl_cloud library.

Aspera #1120 - Fixed a potential memory leak in ascp when running in persistent mode.

Aspera #1204 - Fixed an issue where the expiration of tokens that are issued by the Cloud Object Storage service might not be properly managed when using the pvcl_cloud library.

Aspera #1347 - Reduced the default verbosity of the log messages generated by the asperarund process.

Aspera #1354 - Fixed an issue where async jobs might be terminated if a file is removed from the source system while it is being processed for synchronization.

Aspera #1386 - Fixed an issue where async would repeatedly assign the same paths to transfer processes that had terminated with an error.

Aspera #1391 - Fixed a performance regression when downloading from Cloud Object Storage using asperatrapd.

Aspera #1423 - Updated and resolved the problem that prevented asperanginx from starting correctly in 4.4.2.

Aspera #1528 - Fixed an issue where it is not possible to register or use an entitlement license when deployed on Microsoft Windows in 4.4.2.

Aspera #1534 - Fixed an issue where asperarund sometimes does not stop asperawatchd or asperawatchfolderd processes.

Aspera #1544 - Fixed a resource leak in asperanoded when 'activity_logging' is enabled and there are no access keys.

Aspera #1547 - Fixed an issue where a PUT request to update an access key would be rejected if the payload contained an 'id' field with the same access key ID.

Aspera #1577 - Fixed an issue where transfers token generated through a request to the '/files/download_setup' API endpoint might not work when the payload request specifies a "source_root" path.

Aspera #1698 - Fixed an issue where transfers that use client-side encryption would result in an undecryptable file if the file_checksum_cache configuration setting is explicitly disabled in the server.

Aspera #1737 - Fixed an issue where asperanoded might not be able to correctly retrieve credentials for transfer processes set using Credential Manager on Microsoft Windows.

Aspera #1807 - Fixed an issue where a PULL hotfolder might stop processing new files and cause a crash in the asperasync.exe process when stopped.