Version history for Amazon Backint agent - SAP HANA on Amazon
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Version history for Amazon Backint agent

The following table summarizes the changes for each release of Amazon Backint agent.

Version Details Release date
2.0.5.892
Agent

  • Added Region support: ap-southeast-5 / Asia Pacific (Malaysia)

  • Bug fix: Agent binary signature verification in silent mode

 December 9, 2024
2.0.5.873

Improved management of SSM documents.

 September 24, 2024
2.0.5.862
Agent

  • Improved Agent logging.

 July 16, 2024
2.0.5.824
Agent

  • Improved resiliency for Amazon Backup connection timeouts.

  • Added Region support: il-central-1 / Israel (Tel Aviv) and ca-west-1 / Canada West (Calgary)

 April 17, 2024
2.0.4.797

Manual installer update

 January 10, 2024
2.0.4.779
Agent

  • Added Region support: ap-southeast-4 / Asia Pacific (Melbourne), eu-central-2 / Europe (Zurich), and eu-south-2 / Europe (Spain)

 January 2, 2024
2.0.4.768
Agent

  • Improved resiliency for Amazon S3 connection timeouts.

 October 06, 2023
2.0.3.755
Agent

  • Improved AWSSAP-InstallBackint and AWSSAP-InstallBackintForAWSBackup input validation.

  • Removed boto3 requirement for installation of the agent.

 September 13, 2023
2.0.2.732
Agent

  • Set config file permissions to sapsys group.

  • Added Region support: ap-south-2 / Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and me-central-1 / Middle East (UAE)

 July 14, 2023
2.0.1.671
Agent

  • Added support for Amazon Backup as storage media.

  • Added support for backint protocol 1.5.

  • Added support for Python 3.

 April 17, 2023
1.05.4
Agent

  • Added Region support: ap-southeast-3 / Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

 February 22, 2023
1.05.4
Agent

  • Improved AWSSAP-InstallBackint SSM document Amazon KMS input validation.

 February 25, 2022
1.05.3
Agent

  • Improved AWSSAP-InstallBackint SSM document input validation.

 February 04, 2022
1.05.2
Agent

  • Bug fix: Robust error handling for Amazon S3 connection failures.

 December 08, 2021
1.05
Agent

  • Added support for Intelligent-Tiering S3 storage class.

  • Add support for shortening S3 paths.

  • Added support for separate log, data, and catalog backup S3 paths.

SSM installer & manual installer

  • Added support for python3 non-compiled version of the installer.

  • Added support for installation through Ansible configurations.

  • Bug fix: Removal of ASCII characters.

Manual installer

  • Bug fix: Agent binary signature verification in silent mode.

 August 30, 2021

1.04
Agent

  • Added support for bucket owner full control access to backup objects for cross-account backups.

  • Bug fix: Parallel restore configuration issue.

Manual installer

  • Added support for Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) v2.

 May 28, 2021

1.03
Agent

  • Added Region support: ap-northeast-3 / Asia Pacific (Osaka)

  • Added support for rotating agent log files.

  • Added support for additional S3 object tags.

  • Improved parallel restore using efficient parallelism.

SSM installer

  • Bug fix: SSM document to locate python2 library for installation.

Manual installer

  • Bug fix: Support for isolated instances to make Regional S3 calls.

  • Add support for automatic agent signature verification.

 March 31, 2021

1.02.1
Agent

  • Bug fix: kms-key formatting issue.

 December 4, 2020

1.02
Agent

  • Bug fix: Backup failure at high throughput due to failed connection with S3.

 November 19, 2020

1.01
Agent

  • Added Region support: Amazon GovCloud (US)

  • Added support for specifying number of S3 threads that can run in parallel using UploadConcurrency parameter in configuration file.

Manual installer

  • Removed -o flag.

  • Added -l flag, which allows you to specify the location of the agent .tar file.

SSM installer

  • Added support for specifying the agent installation version.

  • Added support to ignore S3 bucket validations.

  • Bug fix: Occasional installation failure when Amazon CLI installation is selected.

 July 17, 2020
1.0

Initial release

 May 18, 2020