Release date:December, 2023

Last document update: January 10, 2024

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What's new

AI-generated summary of EDR incidents

Reduces the time and operational burden spent on incident investigation and responses using AI-generated incident summaries that help streamline investigation. LLM AI-generated natural language explanations help you understand the behavior of the malicious process and enable you to take action faster. No personal data is transmitted to third-party vendors.

Licensing

Advanced Security +EDR pack required.

​“Notify only” option for Antivirus, Antimalware, Active Protection, URL filtering and EDR detections

This release enables you to test Acronis security products on production environments with no business disruption, with notifications only sent for any detections from Antivirus & Antimalware, Active Protection, URL filtering, and EDR - but these detections will not be stopped, blocked or quarantined. This helps simplify the checks for any false positives to make the necessary exclusions, before fully deploying Acronis security products.​

Licensing

All licenses.

Support for new operating systems

This release adds support for Red Hat and AlmaLinux 9. You will be able to protect Red Hat and AlmaLinux 9 workloads with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud functionality, including image backup, file backup and bare-metal recovery to dissimilar hardware.

Integrations

ConnectWise Asio 2.3: Support Backup Dashboard​

This release of the integration provides:

Support for the Asio Backup Dashboard feature announced during IT Nation in November.​

Support for Alarms and Backup Job information in the Asio Dashboard.

Licensing

Available as part of standard product: Per workload, Per gigabyte

ConnectWise Automate 1.11

This release of the integration delivers improvements and fixes that significantly speed up alert synchronization, among others.

Licensing

Available as part of standard product: Per workload, Per gigabyte

Jamf Pro 1.2

This release fixes an issue where Extension Attributes in Jamf - used by the integration to report alerts - could have duplicate names if the alert types in Acronis had duplicate names.​ When mapping alerts to Extension Attributes, the integration will now enforce that Extension Attributes are unique. The Extension Attribute name can be edited to a custom name, which will have to be unique.

Licensing

Available as part of standard product: Per workload, Per gigabyte

Changes in the Startup Rеcovery Manager

This update introduces changes to the Startup Recovery Manager that interfere with BitLocker if both BitLocker and Startup Recovery Manager are enabled on a protected Windows machine. When restarting the machine after an agent update (both manual or automated), the BitLocker recovery key is required.

To mitigate this issue, suspend or disable BitLocker before updating the agent. After the update, enable BitLocker again. See product documentation.

Updated components

Cyber Protection agent

The Acronis Cyber Protection agent has new versions as follows:

  • Acronis Cyber Protection Agent for Windows (v.37114)
  • Acronis Cyber Protection Agent for Mac (v.37114)
  • Acronis Cyber Protection Agent for Linux (v.37114)

See the release notes for the Acronis Cyber Protection agent here.

Changes in Acronis Cyber Cloud API

You can find the history of changes in Acronis Cyber Cloud API in the dedicated API change log document.

Fixed issues

This section describes the more significant fixes in this release. The full list of fixed issues is available upon request.

Security

For information about security issues fixed in this release, please refer to https://security-advisory.acronis.com/updates/UPD-2312-bb14-e27f.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Backup

  • [ABR-376834] First-time backups might take days to start.
  • [ABR-376435] Cloud-to-cloud backup requests are cancelled due to time out errors.
  • [ABR-367507] VSS writer failures could cause some backups to fail.
  • [ABR-366961] Incremental backups of OneDrive remain at 10% progress or take more time than full backups.

Common

  • [ABR-376774] Backup storage keeps loading indefinitely after clicking the "Show deleted" button.
  • [ABR-346068] The Plans tab shows incorrect status of protection plans, and contains outdated alerts.

Cyber Protection agent

  • [ABR-367507] VSS writer failures could cause some backups to fail.

Recovery

  • [ABR-376952] Entire VM recovery via the cloud console keeps loading endlessly.

Known issues and limitations

Backup

  • [ABR-330402] The Cyber Protection console does not display a message for incompatible Acronis Cyber Infrastructure storage version when enabling immutable storage from Settings > System settings > Immutable storage. The message is correctly shown only in the Management portal.
  • [ABR-354085] Executing a protection plan via the Run now button may produce incremental backups instead of full ones. The issue is observed if the plan was created with Always full scheduling schema, while the simple UI mode was enabled for the Cyber Protection console interface.
  • [ABR-361097] It is possible to create backups with special characters in their names, but such backups are not accessible when saved on a network storage.
    Solution: Do not use special characters in backup names, even though the application allows you to.
  • [ABR-365442] The backup validation completes successfully, but the validation status is incorrect or missing in backup sets with a large number of backups.
  • [ABR-375627] Cloud-to-cloud backups of mailboxes and OneDrive instances fail with the backup agent error "Could not save BackupStatus: [Archive Server]: "
  • [ARC-525] Cloud-to-Cloud backups of Microsoft 365 objects may fail with "[Archive Server]: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)" or "Failed to read data from the backup. "msg": "failed to unmarshal collection data: invalid json: '': unexpected end of JSON input"" errors in rare cases.

Recovery

  • [ABR-367677] Recovery tasks of OneDrive are processing very slowly.
    Solution: See https://kb.acronis.com/content/72506.
  • [ABR-370018] Recovery tasks of OneDrive remain stuck at a certain percentage progress for a very long time.

For more information on known issues and workarounds, please visit our Knowledge Base.