Release date:February, 2026
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Last document update: February 18, 2026

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What's new

Acronis GenAI Protection

Acronis GenAI Protection empowers MSPs to guide customers toward safe, responsible AI adoption by delivering deep visibility into GenAI usage and blocking risky data exposure or malicious prompt attempts.
This new offering provides low‐overhead, platform‐native security that strengthens confidence in using generative AI applications.

Key benefits

  • Positions MSPs as trusted advisors on safe and responsible AI adoption.
  • Provides end customers with visibility over GenAI usage and "Shadow AI" discovery.
  • Reduces the risk of end users sharing sensitive information with public AI models that could train on or expose that information.
  • Increases confidence in using generative AI applications by protecting AI interactions from harmful prompts.
  • Low operational overhead due to platform native integration.

Supported scenarios

  • Usage monitoring: Discovers generative AI applications used across customer environments and provides visibility into adoption patterns and usage trends.
  • Data loss prevention: Inspects prompts for sensitive information, such as PII and PHI, and prevents unauthorized transmission of that information to generative AI applications.
  • Prompt injection protection: Detects and blocks potentially harmful prompts designed to manipulate AI model behavior or compromise application integrity.

Implementation notes

  • Supported platforms: Windows 11 and Windows 10 (version 1809 or newer) 64-bit editions only.

Licensing

  • Solution-based: Ultimate Protection.
  • Service-based (per-workload, per-gigabyte): Acronis GenAI Protection.
  • Note: GenAI Protection is not available with the Security and RMM solution bundle, and is not part of any EDR offering item under service-based licensing.

Backup: Support for new operating systems

In this release, we added support for backup and recovery for the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat 9.7, 10.1
  • Ubuntu 25.10
  • Fedora 43
  • Rocky Linux 9.7, 10, 10.1
  • AlmaLinux 9.7, 10, 10.1
  • CloudLinux 10
  • Oracle Linux 9.6, 9.7, 10, 10.1

Licensing

Available with all licenses that support backup.

Backup: Convert to VM on Proxmox Virtual Environment

Conversion to Proxmox VE virtual machines enables dramatically faster disaster recovery by automatically transforming Windows and Linux backups into ready‐to‐run virtual machines, eliminating dependency on cloud services and reducing downtime. With incremental VM updates and seamless cross‐platform P2V conversions, including automatic boot‐readiness patching, it streamlines local recovery operations and ensures production systems can be restored quickly and reliably.

Key benefits

  • Shorter recovery times in comparison with recovery from backup​.
  • Local disaster recovery without dependency on Cloud services.

Supported scenarios

  • Automatically convert backups of the production Windows or Linux machines into virtual machines running on Proxmox VE platform.​
  • Update the created virtual machines incrementally and automatically with each new backup, without re-creating the virtual machine from scratch​.
  • Perform cross-platform conversions, for example Physical > Proxmox VE(P2V) with automatic patching of the virtual machine to ensure its successful start up.

Implementation notes

  • When conversion target storage (datastore) is set to a storage which does not support snapshots, the converted virtual machine is re-created each time (not updated incrementally) and requires double the amount of the storage space while running.
  • If the name of the source machine contains unsupported symbols, they are replaced with the "0" symbol in the converted VM name in the Proxmox virtual environment.

Licensing

  • Solution-based: Backup and DR, Ultimate Protection.
  • Service-based (per-workload, per-gigabyte): Standard Protection.

Backup: Run as VM on Proxmox Virtual Environment

Instantly recover protected machines by mounting any Windows or Linux backup as a ready‐to‐use Proxmox VE virtual machine with seamless P2V support and full finalization to permanent storage for true rapid disaster recovery.

Key benefits

  • Faster recovery from disaster in comparison with recovery from backup​.
  • Local disaster recovery without dependency on Cloud services.

Supported scenarios

  • Instantly mount backups of your Windows or Linux machines as ready-to-use VMs running on Proxmox VE platform.​
  • Perform cross-platform mounting, e.g. Physical-> Proxmox VE (P2V) with automatic patching of the VM to ensure its successful bootability​
  • Perform finalization of the mounted VM on permanent storage.

Implementation notes

  • The temporary storage for the "Instant Restore" virtual machine must be file-based (Dir, NFS,CIFS, BtrFS).
  • Block-based storage types (RBD, LVM, iSCSI, ZFS) and CephFS are not supported because the feature relies on QCOW2 backing files which require direct file system access.

Licensing

  • Solution-based: Backup and DR, Ultimate Protection.
  • Service-based (per-workload, per-gigabyte): Standard Protection.

Backup: Convert to VM on Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure

Conversion to Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure virtual machines enables dramatically faster disaster recovery by automatically transforming Windows and Linux backups into ready‐to‐run virtual machines, eliminating dependency on cloud services and reducing downtime. With incremental VM updates and seamless cross‐platform P2V conversions, including automatic boot‐readiness patching, it streamlines local recovery operations and ensures production systems can be restored quickly and reliably.

Key benefits

  • Faster recovery from disaster in comparison with recovery from backup​.
  • Local disaster recovery w/o dependency on Cloud services.

Supported scenarios

  • Automatically convert backups of the production Windows or Linux machines into VMs running on Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure platform.​
  • Update the created VMs incrementally and automatically with each new backup, without re-creating the VM from scratch​.
  • Perform cross-platform conversions, e.g. Physical-> Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure (P2V) with automatic patching of the VM to ensure its successful start up.

Implementation notes

  • If the converted virtual machine is in "shelved" state, its next conversion will fail.

Licensing

  • Solution-based: Backup and DR, Ultimate Protection.
  • Service-based (per-workload, per-gigabyte): Standard Protection.

Disaster Recovery: Weekly testing of Automated Failover

The weekly testing of automated failover proactively detects and resolves boot issues across workloads, ensuring every client environment stays continuously DR‐ready, with flexible per‐workload test cadences and shareable PDF or Executive Summary report evidence.

Key benefits

  • Automated test failover can run once a week to help partners proactively identify and resolve potential start-up issues to ensure that clients' environments are always DR-ready.​

Supported scenarios

  • Configure weekly testing for multiple servers via the Automated Test Failover (ATF) widget, or for an individual server via the recovery server settings.​
  • Define different test cadences per workload: weekly for mission-critical systems, monthly for lower-priority workloads.​
  • Generate and share PDF reports with embedded screenshots from the Automatic Test Failover (ATF) widget, or include results in automatically generated Executive Summary reports.​

Licensing

  • Solution-based: Backup and DR, Ultimate Protection.
  • Service-based: Disaster Recovery.

DR: Widgets for Automated Test Failover in Executive Summary Reports

The embedding of the Automated Test Failover (ATF) result widgets in the scheduled Executive Summary reports allows partners to give their customers a clear, recurring proof that their disaster recovery infrastructure is validated and ready for any disaster event, backed by ongoing DR testing activity.

Key benefits

Managed Service Providers can:

  • Provide objective evidence that the customer’s DR infrastructure is ready for a disaster event.​
  • Show ongoing DR validation activities that support the customer’s business continuity requirements.

Supported scenarios

  • Add ATF result widgets to Executive Summary reports to automatically include test outcomes in reports shared with customers on a configured schedule.

Licensing

  • Solution-based: Backup and DR, Ultimate Protection.
  • Service-based: Disaster Recovery.

Updated Components

Acronis Cyber Protection agent

The Acronis Cyber Protection agent has the following new versions.

  • Acronis Cyber Protection agent for Windows (v.26.02.41858)
  • Acronis Cyber Protection agent for Mac (v.26.02.41858)
  • Acronis Cyber Protection agent for Linux (v.26.02.41858)

For more information about the release history of the Acronis Cyber Protection agent, see the agent release notes.

Changes in the Acronis Cyber Cloud API

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

Fixed issues

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Common

  • [ABR-413028] Scheduled backups do not start as expected.
  • [ADP-47179] The Software Inventory list in device properties does not display all installed software applications.
  • [PLTFRM-86718] Agent update settings are not properly displayed in the Cyber Protect Cloud console.

Cyber Protection agent

  • [ABR-413192] Restore points in backups appear empty even though they actually contain data.
  • [ABR-414277] An excessive number of backups may be created when pre‑update backups are triggered for a protection plan that already has a backup queued, scheduled, or in progress.
  • [ABR-415285] Agent updates fail with the error "Fatal error during installation."
  • [ABR-417243] Unable to install agent for HyperV on Windows 2008R2.
  • [ADP-46062] Vulnerability assessment and patch management do not display the 64-bit installer for Adobe Acrobat DC versions 24.x.
  • [DRAAS-36057] Windows 2022 workloads cannot start up properly after failback on ESX servers.
  • [PLTFRM-85451] Protected machines remain offline in the Cyber Protect Cloud console although they have been powered on.

Management Portal

  • [PLTFRM-85933] Moving a tenant to another parent tenant fails with the error "Offering item not available."

Recovery

  • [ABR-418392] The Flavor selector is not visible in the virtual machine restore wizard.
  • [ABR-412784] Recovery points are missing in the recovery console.

Known issues and limitations

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Autodiscovery and remote installation

  • [ADP-39185] Active Directory-based discovery does not operate as exepcted with the default configuration of Windows Server 2025 because it enforces LDAP encryption by default.

Backup

  • [ABR-408680] Proxmox VE: When performing parallel backup operations with 2 or more Linux-based Proxmox VMs, which contain LVMs and XFS file system inside, the backup activities may become unresponsive in some cases.

    • Solution: Reduce the number of parallel VM backups in corresponding protection plan (Backup options -> Scheduling)

  • [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-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-305920] The backups of System state performed via the Windows Server Backup feature fail with the error message "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

Bootable media

  • [ABR-358235] WinPE-based media: Unable to browse backup files if the cloud storage location contains corrupted backup archives.

Cyber Protection agent

  • [ABR-371912] The Acronis SnapAPI module may require separate compilation after installation on Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux 8.7 distributions.
    • Solution: Compile the SnapAPI module manually after installing the Agent for Linux on a workload that runs on a Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux 8.7 distribution.

Disaster recovery

  • If the tenant (customer or partner) is disabled or deleted while an Automed Failover is in progress, the operation fails with the error "Please try again later or contact Support" while it should indicate that the tenant is no longer accessible.

Recovery

  • [ABR-371521] When browsing backup archives, the sorting of files by last change date does not work correctly.

Virtualization protection

  • [ABR-383978] No alert about almost reached storage quota is displayed for agentless Microsoft Azure VM backups.
  • [ABR-383972] No alert about exceeded storage quota is displayed for agentless Microsoft Azure VM backups.

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