What's New?

General

  • Faster directory browsing in the GUI, especially for remote cloud storages.
  • Improved reporting for package transfers that are intiated by Aspera Central. (CIM-1327)

Node API

  • Faster transfer start up when many transfer sessions are started through the Node API. (CIM-1010)

Sync

  • A new async option, --ignore-mode, prevents the file mode from being synced from the source to the destination. Use this option to allow the file to have different modes on the source and destination and to prevent Sync from hanging if the destination permissions change.
  • Sync now respects the files_filelock_enabled setting in a user's access key, which overrides the server setting in aspera.conf.
  • A new Sync option --clean-excluded can be used to optimize the Sync snapshot database when using --exclude-dirs-older-than or --exclude by removing directories from the snapshot as they become excluded. The option applies to all Sync directions and the excluded paths are removed from the snapshot database on both endpoints.

Object Storage Support

  • Faster authentication to AWS S3 when using AWS assumed roles. Trapd can now get credentials from regional Amazon Security Token Service (STS) endpoints, rather than only the global endpoint. On EC2 instances the regional endpoint is retrieved automatically, otherwise the endpoint can be set in s3.properties or the docroot.

Breaking Changes

If you are upgrading from a previous release, the following changes for this release may require you to adjust your workflow, configuration, or usage.