January 4, 2021 - SQL Clone 4.5.13

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

December 22, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.12

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

December 15, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.11

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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.

December 10, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.10

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

December 9, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.9

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

December 4, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.8

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

December 1, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.7

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

November 25, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.6

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

November 24, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.5

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

November 19, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.4

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

November 16, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.3

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Made error handling between server and clients more consistent

November 11, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.2

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

November 11, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.1

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

November 5, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.5.0

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

• Starting with SQL Clone v4.5.0, SQL Clone Server can no longer be installed on Windows Server 2012 R1 or earlier
• SQL Clone Server now targets .NET Core 3.1; Microsoft does not support Windows Server 2012 R1 or earlier as a deployment target for .NET Core 3.1. For details of .NET Core's supported operating systems see https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/3.1/3.1-supported-os.md
• SQL Clone Agents still use .NET Framework, so their requirements are unchanged

Fixes

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

November 2, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.60

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

• Added mechanism to highlight significant changes in upcoming versions of SQL Clone.

Fixes

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

November 2, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.59

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

October 29, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.58

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

October 26, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.57

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

October 19, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.56

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

October 19, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.55

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

October 15, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.54

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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.

October 12, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.53

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

October 8, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.52

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

October 7, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.51

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

October 1, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.50

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

September 30, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.49

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Improves logging output in certain error cases during clone operations

September 23, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.48

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

September 17, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.47

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

September 10, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.46

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

September 8, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.45

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

September 3, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.44

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

September 1, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.43

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

August 24, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.42

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

August 20, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.41

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

August 19, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.40

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

August 14, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.39

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

August 12, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.38

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

July 30, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.37

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

July 28, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.36

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

July 20, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.35

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

July 15, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.34

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

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

July 9, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.33

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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.

July 8, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.32

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

July 1, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.31

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

June 24, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.30

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

June 18, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.29

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

June 15, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.28

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Fixed some logging around clone detachment during network failures

June 3, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.27

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

June 1, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.26

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

May 21, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.25

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

May 12, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.24

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

May 7, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.23

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

May 5, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.22

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

April 30, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.21

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

April 22, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.20

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

April 16, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.19

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

April 14, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.18

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

Fixes

April 3, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.17

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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)

April 2, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.16

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

March 25, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.15

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Improved error messages when the PowerShell client fails to connect

March 19, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.14

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Additional logging for WMI errors in Agent.

March 16, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.13

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

March 10, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.12

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

March 6, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.11

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

March 5, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.10

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

March 4, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.9

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Added a retry for clean up after an image creation

March 2, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.8

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements.

February 26, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.7

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

February 25, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.6

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

February 25, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.5

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

February 24, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.4

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

Important notes

• 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 our troubleshooting guide.

February 18, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.3

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements

February 13, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.2

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements

February 11, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.1

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

Fixes

February 7, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.4.0

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

February 6, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.9

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Added diagnostic logging around update checks

January 30, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.8

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

January 29, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.7

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

January 28, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.6

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

January 27, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.5

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

January 24, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.4

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Internal fixes and improvements

January 22, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.3

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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')

January 15, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.2

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

January 10, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.1

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

January 8, 2020 - SQL Clone 4.3.0

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

• SQL Clone now supports Data Masker v7

Fixes

• Internal improvements and updates

December 18, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.2.5

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Improved operation progress reporting stability

December 12, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.2.4

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Improved robustness of agent auto-update

December 6, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.2.3

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Handle COM exceptions in Active Domain group information retrieval

December 4, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.2.2

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

November 28, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.2.1

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

November 21, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.2.0

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

November 14, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.1.2

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

November 11, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.1.1

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

November 6, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.1.0

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

October 30, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.9

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Updated the Feedback button style and position

October 23, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.8

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

October 17, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.7

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

October 9, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.6

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

October 3, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.5

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

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

September 20, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.4

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

Fixes

• Fixed a deserialization error when using Get-SqlCloneTeam

September 18, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.3

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

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

Fixes

August 28, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.2

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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

August 20, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.1

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

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)

July 30, 2019 - SQL Clone 4.0.0

This release of SQL Clone includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

SQL Clone 4 introduces Teams, allowing you to have more control over the instances, images and clones that users have access to.

• 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.

Important notes

• Upgrading to SQL Clone 4 will start a new trial. You will need to re-enter your SQL Clone serial number after upgrading. Provided you have a valid subscription (or support contract for legacy versions), your existing serial number from v1/v2/v3 will work.
• SQL Clone Server now requires .NET Framework version 4.7.2 or later (was previously 4.6.1). If you are using an older version, you should update .NET before upgrading SQL Clone.
• Existing PowerShell cmdlets will continue to work as normal after this upgrade. However, you should manually upgrade them to make use of the new Get-SqlCloneTeam cmdlet and the -Teams parameter in New-SqlCloneImage.

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.