FileReplicationPro Version History
Release : 5.1.9  Date: Oct 26, 2008
Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
CHANGES
New Feature(s):
  • CRC validation check
  • Netware API can now work within Java environments other than Java 1.4

    • Fixes:
  • Resolved Broken Pipe issue in Mac
  • Improved RealTime performance and stability while cleaning up excessive openjms folder growth.

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    Release : 5.1.8  Date: Sep 22, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    Fixes:
  • Enabled replication of Extended Attributes on OS X with Byte Level transfer enabled
  • Fixed excessive growth of derby.log file
  • Fixed ACL replication errors in Windows
  • Fixed wrong scheduling time in Log tab
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    Release : 5.1.7  Date: Aug 28, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    Fixes:
  • Core Dump crash on Netware fix
  • Temporary leftovers fix
  • Passwords removal from logs in debug mode
  • Management Console Error 500 fix
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    Release : 5.1.6  Date: July 24, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    New Features:
  • Added notifications on file lock and network timeouts

    • Fixes:
  • Replication status fix
  • Log Cleaner fix
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    Release : 5.1.5  Date: June 29, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    Fixes:
  • ACL/File Permissions Transfer fix
  • OS X disconnected shares fix
  • Log sending functionality fix
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    Release : 5.1.4  Date: May 1, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    Fixes:
  • Resolved potentional data loss during recursive directory replication
  • Security fix for remote filesystem browser
  • SDK Fix, added missing library
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    Release : 5.1.3  Date: April, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Major Upgrade (New Installation)
    CHANGES
    Fixes:
  • Improved the Real Time stress and load performance (new DB system)
  • Resolved native Windows ACL conflict
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    Release : 5.1.1  Date: February, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    New Features:
  • New icons and buttons for a newer looking interface
  • New installation/auto configuration features for desired engine, console or all types
  • New initial message making the installation procedure clear
  • Mac OSX FRP service agent

    Fixes:
  • Resolved multiple management console allowance in Mac OSX
  • Move job type fixes
  • Greetings screen improvement
  • Clear buttons displayed for edit, add, delete and stop actions
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    Release : 5.1  Date: January 28, 2008
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
    New Features:
  • Pre and post commands to each source and destination replication job
  • OpenSDK feature allowing users to control all FRP functionality via command line without the need of a GUI.  This new feature adds the ability to integrate with existing environment through programmable API or XML-RPC

    Fixes:
  • Resolved move job type defects that lost files or ignored directories during replication
  • Fixed OSX crash defect
  • Resolved cross platform installer issue
  • Streamlined the coloring for all tabs (regarding the Notification Setup tab)
  • Added a separate "Real Time" job setting to clearly illustrate real time replication functionality
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    Release : 5.0  Date: December 28, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Major Upgrade (New Installation)
    CHANGES
    New Features:
  • Real Time replication for MacOSX in both Leopard and Tiger on both Intel and PPC platforms
  • Added support for ACL and resource forks in MacOSX
  • Added time and date support for date transfer of folders


    • Fixes:
  • Resolved extended attributes replication in MacOSX
  • Resolved interoperability issues between Windows and MacOSX
  • Fixed ability to create multiple jobs by clicking on "Finish" button more than once.
  • Real time recoverability issue resolved
  • Installer issues resolved for cross platform installations
  • Improved installer dialogs
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    Release : 4.3.14  Date: October 17, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Resolved issue where non real time jobs are delayed after a service / server restart.
  • Fixed data loss issue where a disconnected source is considered to be an empty directory and the destination files are deleted.
  • New feature that automatically disables the resource manager when the environment's Java version is below 1.5.
  • Upgraded HSQLDB to version 1.8 to resolve Netware data replication errors.

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    Release : 4.3.13  Date: September 18, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Upgraded to Java 5.
  • New version of InstallAnywhere implemented for better cross platform installation.
  • Fixed bug where the status of the server was set to offline despite its online status.
  • Resolved issue where real time replication was triggered despite no real time events having occurred.
    • Release : 4.3.12  Date: June 25, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Selected job radio button and refresh rate persistence issues have been resolved. The selected job and the refresh rate maintain their selection after a run now command or after returning from the editor. The selected job also remains in the list in it proper sorted position.
  • Fixed a bug where source or destination paths that had a space appended to the end would not run.
  • Fixed a bug related to disconnected network shares. The disconnect caused FRP to think that the directory was empty with the potential for a 2-way mirror to delete all files at the other end of the replication.
     
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    Release : 4.3.11  Date: May 10, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Radio buttons in the server overview and scheduled jobs screens now maintain their selected state after a manual or automatic screen refresh. The selected job is moved to the top of the job list upon screen refresh.
  • Added a scrollable pane to the scheduled jobs screen when there are 10 or more jobs defined. Users can now scroll through the job list while maintaining access to the action buttons and menu items at the top of the screen.
  • Changed how jobs run after a service restart or a connection is restored. Jobs with a 0 repeat interval will perform a directory scan and then resume to a wait state. Jobs with a non-zero repeat rate will not perform a directory scan upon a service restart or a connection restore, but will wait until their next scheduled time to perform a replication.
  • Fixed the NullPointerException error which sometimes occurred on a real-time job execution after a connection restore or a service restart.
     
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    Release : 4.3.10  Date: March 26, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Fixed a bug where some scheduled FRP jobs (non 0 repeat interval) failed to run properly after a server associated with the job went offline and then returned online.
  • Additional fix to the Job status screen to show the correct the job status for offline/online servers.
  • The server overview screen now displays servers sorted by hostname.
  • Added the ability to select the screen refresh time for both the server and job overview screens. Users may select a screen refresh time of  20, 40, or 60 seconds.
     
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    Release : 4.3.9  Date: February 27, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Improved the server online status change detection.  
  • Fixed the Job status screen to show the proper the job status. The job status now indicates when a source or destination server is offline.
     
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    Release : 4.3.8  Date: February 12, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Added a recovery from server outage feature. When the destination server returns online, the replications associated with it will be triggered automatically by using newly developed status change notification framework, avoiding the situation where the source and destination servers are unsynchronized.  
  • Fixed online/offline server status. The server status updates within 2 minutes when changing state.
  • Fixed an issue where temporary files might not be deleted.
     
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    Release : 4.3.7  Date: January 29, 2007
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • Removed errors coming from native libraries, common code cleanup and recompilation of native libraries with the latest compiler.
  • Added various DB optimizations.
  • Memory usage optimizations.
  • Fixed bugs related to JDBC SQL errors.
  • Set Mgmt server log priority to INFO instead of DEBUG, to remove unneeded information from the log files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused FRP to omit replicating multilevel directories.
     
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    Release : 4.3.6  Date: December  10, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    CHANGES
  • FRP Management console memory and performance enhancement. This release eliminates the XML log files and provides a significantly improved speed performance when displaying a large number of log entries. This release should eliminate out of memory problems on the FRP management console service.
     
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    Release : 4.3.5  Date: November 14, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed the problem of "initializing jobs" when migrating the console manager to a different server.
  • Fixed the problem where FRP displayed the message "The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file" on Windows Server 2003 based servers.
     
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    Release : 4.3.4  Date: November 1, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • This release fixes various file lock problems associated with MS SQL and Office documents.
     
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    Release : 4.3.3  Date: October 4, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed the issue where the FRP job exception time would reset when the exception time wrapped past midnight.
  • Fixed the issue where users were unable to edit server properties for remote servers.
     
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    Release : 4.3.2  Date: June 8, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed issues with 2-way replication of sub-folders
     
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    Release : 4.3.1.4  Date: May 25, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue in the advanced server parameters screen where FRP could not set the log level (DEBUG/INFO/WARN). Changes were not store properly and FRP remained in INFO level logging.
     
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    Release : 4.3.1.3  Date: May 22, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Provided a fully working FRP distribution for NetWare. The NetWare build has the same functionality as builds for the other platforms including a fully working replication engine and a management console. It is fully compatible with the replication engines running on other operating systems.
  • Fixed an issue with the Advanced Server Parameters page. Clicking save after changing the status of a checkbox caused an http error. Users where unable to save their changes.
  • Enabled the log purge feature. FRP now purges job.txt and job.xml files after x number of days. The number of days to keep the log files is set by the "Number of days to keep log files" parameter in the Advanced Server Parameters page.
  • Changes made to minimize the number of extraneous directory walk replications resulting in job logs that indicate 0 files 0 folder 0 bytes replicated.
  • Added more debug output when DEBUG logging is enabled.
     
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    Release : 4.3.1.2  Date: May 5, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with recursive directory replication. Under certain conditions, the sub-folder (name) replicated but the contents of the sub-folder did not replicate.
  • Fixed the FRPing utility.
  • Fixed an issue with the Advanced Server Properties page for certain browsers. Safari failed to work with some HTML tags, preventing from sending information to management server.
  • Fixed an issue where some users were unable to save advanced settings and received an HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error
     
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    Release : 4.3.1.1  Date: April 5, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed several memory leaks
  • Fixed an issue with 2-way mirror replication where under certain conditions, the initial replication deleted all the files on both sides of the replication. Along with this fix, the option to enable or disable 2-way mirror deletions was removed as it became obsolete.
  • Fixed an issue where some users were unable to save advanced settings and received an HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error
     
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    Release : 4.3.1  Date: March 10, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Added a User Interface to set General, 2-way mirror, TCP/IP, and Realtime parameters. This replaces the older method of manually editing the s2s.properties file. The user interface is accessed from the Server Overview screen, select a server, click the Edit Server button and then click the Advanced Settings button.
  • Moved the 2-way mirror delete enable flag from the s2s.properties file to the Edit Job Basic screen. This allows the user to set the flag while adding the 2-way mirror job. This flag is only active when a 2-way mirror job is selected. The default setting has been set to enabled.
  • The log properties tab has been removed. Log level settings (WARN, DEBUG, INFO) have been moved to the Advanced Settings user interface.
     
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    Release : 4.2.38  Date: January 20, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • In some conditions FRP versions 4.2.036/036a/036b/037 failed to replicate sub-folders during directory scan replication. The bug can be avoided by installing FRP 4.2.038 or simply by changing default parameters in the s2s.properties file for:  "s2s.misc.test_lock_on_target" and "s2s.misc.test_lock_on_source" to "false".
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    Release : 4.2.37  Date: January 10, 2006
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    IMPROVEMENTS
  •   Add utility named "frping" to test connectivity to a FRP engine. This replaces the previous trouble-shooting method of typing http://server:9200 in a browser window to check connectivity to a remote FRP replication server.
  • Add support for file ownership, file permissions and symbolic links replication for HP-UX (RISC).
  • Provide additional file filtering options using an XML configuration file. Filter options include:
    1. Filter by file size
    2. Filter by the modified date
    3. Filter based on a user defined input file containing a list of files & folders
     
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    Bug Fixes
  • Fix various issues related to checking access permissions on the source and target folders.
  • There was a bug related to unexpected TCP/IP traffic terminating the replication session. Fixed.
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    Release : 4.2.36b  Date: December 27, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • FRP experienced a condition where if the target folders did not have proper ACL settings, the replication engine got stacked causing FRP to fail repeatedly.  Fixed
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    Release : 4.2.36  Date: December 12, 2005
    Operating System Affected : Windows Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • FRP did not replicate files that had their read-only attribute set. Fixed
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    Release : 4.2.35  Date: December 7, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • There were problems replicating Unicode files. Fixed
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  • There was the possibility of generating multiple real-time events when updating large files before the update operation was complete; resulting in the file being transferred more then once. Fixed.
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Created a new Windows installer based on JRE 1.4.2_10 with Server JVM  (rather then 1.4.2_08 Client JVM). The server JVM is a more optimized platform for the FRP Replication Service. This new platform will be faster and more efficient in terms of resource (memory + CPU) usage. Note that the Server JVM will be used only when the user selects the "Complete Installation" download which includes JVM.  The user's client JVM will be used if the NoVM installer has been chosen by the user.
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    Release : 4.2.34  Date: December 2, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Changing the management console password did not implement correctly. Fixed
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Upgraded the embedded database to help reduce memory usage and potential memory leaks.
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  • Implemented an application level Keep Alive between Engines to prevent connection tear-downs during long periods of inactivity (i.e. dsync replication). The Keep Alive interval is based on a new system parameter s2s.tcp.keep_alive_interval (default=60 seconds)..
  • Change the value of "Next replication" in the Scheduled-Jobs screen to display "Upon Real-Time Changes" when the mode is in real-time.
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  • Changed the FRP engine maximum memory usage from 128Mb to 256Mb.
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    Release : 4.2.33  Date: November 22, 2005
    Operating System Affected : Windows Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Finalized issues where FRP replication would crash when attempting to replicate a files with a pathname longer than 200 chars.
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  • With ACL change detection and copy feature enabled, the FRP change/stop job did not work properly. Fixed.
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    Release : 4.2.32  Date: November 16, 2005
    Operating System Affected : Windows Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • FRP replication would crash when attempting to replicate a file with ACL replication enabled and the file path is longer than 200 chars. Fixed.
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    Release : 4.2.31  Date: November 15, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • There were circumstances where the s2s.properties file became corrupted. Fixed.
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Created build for Netware to link in new s2s.properties.
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  • Improvements were made to validate ACLs prior to replicating them.
    • Release : 4.2.30  Date: November 10, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • FRP real time replication did not delete the folder contents when the original folder was not permanently deleted (sent to the recycle bin). Fixed.
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Log an error when FRP fails to delete a file.
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  • Improvements were made to FRP text file logging.
    • Release : 4.2.29  Date: November 6, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Repair log summary statistics for 2-way replications.
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    NEW FEATURES
  • Skip job validation when changing a job to be inactive.
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Add system parameters to define a threshold and a maximum allowable file size for differential based replications.
  • Add a system clock synchronization check for 2-way mirror jobs. FRP will check if the system clocks on the source and destination machines are within the specified number of seconds. If the time is not synchronized within this threshold, replication will not take place. The specified time threshold has been added to the s2s.propterties file.
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  • Added a system parameter to the s2s.properties file to exempt certain files from the 2-way mirror delete prohibition in order to accommodate deleting temporary files created by some applications (s2s.2way.exclude=*.tmp,~$*.doc). Change the default system parameter s2s.2way.enable_deletes to false (no deletions).
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    Release : 4.2.28  Date: November 6, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Change the default system parameter s2s.2way.enable_deletes to true (allow deletions).
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    Release : 4.2.27  Date: November 2, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Windows ACL copies caused FRP crashes under certain circumstances. Fixed
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  • Added more log details related to ACL and real-time errors.
  • Change the logic for 2-way directory replication. A directory will be deleted only if it is empty.
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  • TCP/IP WAN connections sometimes changed its status to DISCONNECTED. Fixed.
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Added a new system parameter s2s.2way.enable_deletes to control file deletion during a 2-way mirror replication. The default value is false (no deletion).
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    Release : 4.2.26  Date: October 26, 2005
    Operating System Affected : Windows Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Network drives became unavailable during replication with resultant FRP Replication Service crashes on Windows. Fixed.
    • IMPROVEMENTS
  • Added additional logging and sanity checks to FRP Windows extensions.
    • Release : 4.2.25  Date: October 21, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • There was a chance of TCP connection failures when replicating large files using bit level replication. Increased TCP/IP timeouts during bit level replication.
  • There were errors during cross platform replication (e.g. Linux -> Windows) caused by FRP copying file ACLs and permissions. Disabled ACL copy functionality during cross platform replication.
  • Job execution statistics GUI fix.
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    Release : 4.2.24  Date: September 22, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    IMPROVEMENTS
  •  The jobs state would change from Wait -> Replicating -> Wait incorrectly due to events arriving from different jobs. Fixed.
  • Added two system parameters to the s2s.properties file to specify TCP timeout values:
  • s2s.tcp.session_inactivity_timeout (default 300 seconds) for an FRP session opened by a peer acting as server to be closed.
  • s2s.tcp.response_timeout (default is 30 seconds) for a peer to wait for a response from its peer.
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  • Reconfigured the OpenJMS built-in garbage collector to start the collection process when the FRP engine consumes 60% of the allocated VM memory.
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    Release : 4.2.23  Date: September 16, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Set the tcp timeout parameters to 15 seconds for tcp connect and 40 seconds for tcp receive operations.
  • Updated the Mac code to provide uniformity with the other platforms.
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    Release : 4.2.222a  Date: September 6, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed several issues related to ACL copy and capture of RT file system events under Windows.
  •  Fixed several 2-way mirror items related to real-time events and the storing of the file's last modification date.
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    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Revised online help web pages.
    • Release : 4.2.22  Date: August 24, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • On Replication service startup, 2-way replication jobs caused files to be deleted. Fixed.
  • When a user manually cut and pasted files from a source to a destination that were configured as a 2-way mirror, FRP deleted the files at both ends. Fixed.
    • Release : 4.2.21a  Date: August 17, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    Bug Fixes
  • The following issues where found for real-time 1-way mirror replications: (1) When a file is renamed on the destination, FRP would rename the same file on the source. (2) When a new file was added to the destination, it was not deleted. Fixed.
    • Release : 4.2.21  Date: August 10, 2005
    Operating System Affected : All Installation: Normal (Preserves existing jobs)
    IMPROVEMENTS
  • Removed the limitation in the Job Summary Logs of displaying only 15 records.