Release Notes: IBM Aspera faspio Gateway 1.2

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Product Released: June 14, 2021
Release Notes Updated: June 14, 2021

The 1.2 release of faspio Gateway provides new security features. These notes also list system requirements, supported platforms, and known issues.

NEW FEATURES

The faspio Gateway now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure your TCP connections to and from the Gateways and to secure your FASP connections between two gateways over the WAN (using DTLS & FASP native encryption). You can configure TLS in your gateway.toml file. (Aspera/faspio#449)

The service name on macOS is now called com.ibm.aspera.faspio-gateway. (Aspera/faspio#482)

Renamed fasp.io to faspio. (Aspera/faspio.docs#3)

BREAKING CHANGES

TLS is enabled by default. You must point the faspio Gateway on each end of each bridge to valid certificates to continue transferring data. (Aspera/faspio#481)

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

IBM Aspera Gateway 1.2 is supported on these OS platforms running on a machine using any of the listed processor architectures:
Supported OSs Processor Architectures
Linux
  • RHEL 7
  • CentOS 7
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • Intel 64-bit
  • IBM Power Systems
  • IBM Z Systems (z/Architecture)
Windows
  • Windows 10 v1803
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Intel 64-bit
macOS
  • macOS 10.13 - 11.0
  • Intel 64-bit

PER-LICENSE LIMITS

Maximum total per-process aggregate bandwidth (in and out traffic combined): 2.5 Gbps
Maximum number of bridges per gateway: 4
Maximum number of concurrent sessions per gateway: 20

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