Maintenance Release 11.40.16 (Sep 02, 2025)

Restoring a stub's data may fail if the corresponding data version is not available in the current cycle.

When setting plan for a PostgreSQL instance, if disk caching is enabled but the client does not support disk caching (is below SP40), instance can perform full backups, but cannot schedule or manually run log incremental backups.

NAS filers backups failing as JobManager is not able to find an access node

MySQL Cloud databases are not excluded from the log backup SLA

Metrics Report may not update.

Improved security by adding passkey authentication for browsing Exchange databases during recovery point creation. Users are now prompted for passkey when needed, ensuring secure authentication flow.

Security dashboard: Command center timeout period does not show correct setting and status when additional settings for SessionTimeoutMinutes is used.

added support for cv-backup-storageclass label in v1beta1

Improved search functionality in replication monitor by searching database source name and path. Enhanced search capabilities for SQL database monitoring.

Browsing Active Directory and viewing properties may not correctly display Unicode characters.

RMAN connect string password in ClOraAgent and RMAN logs

App Aware VMWare snap OOP restores - Snapshot might be taken on the Source VM during the restores

Backup GCP gzip compressed objects may fail.

SharePointOnline: Some item failed to be restored by this error message, "The user does not exist or is not unique"

Improved value assignment consistency in Azure subscription utilities. Enhanced rule editing functionality for better reliability in processing subscription rules.

Recalls may hang on Linux if the underlying FS does not support xattrs

Improved Exchange DAG restore functionality by enabling retrieval of recovery databases during restore operations, enhancing database association information for better restore scenarios.

Improved Outlook add-in preview functionality by fixing issues related to cache path handling, file validation, error logging, and item size calculation. This ensures a seamless preview experience across different access methods.

Improved LDAP authentication reliability and performance.

Improvements to the Recovery Assistant for streamlined one-touch restoration in on-premises Cyber Recovery environments.

Enhanced reliability of Case Manager query set selection by ensuring case-insensitive comparison of user identifiers, preventing potential mismatches due to case sensitivity.

VM level Synth full job may fail with incorrect licensing error in a corner case.

VMware VM backup fails with the error VMX file not found, if the VM is storage vmotioned to another datastore after VM snapshot creation

Backups may fail for disks displayed with sizes in TB within the Proxmox UI.

SAP Oracle on RAC command line online consistent backups may fail.

When the customer performs tape to tape copy operation and there is a I/O error while reading, we don't fail the job and also end updating database, which could be a data loss case.

For a metro configuration where multipathing was enabled, the creation of snap sometimes failed.

Addressed an issue that resulted in core dumps occurring on AIX nodes.

GUI and Disk Pruning report might not show consistent data.

Optimize Threat Analysis processing.

Custom rule 'No Data Aging In The Past X Days' may not work as expected when the CommServe locale is set to French.

Test failover job is failing if Auto update and sync option is on and vm guid changed or new vm is added in vm group.

If a library is locked during the update installation, the process might fail and leave Commvault services in a stopped state.

Restoring a virtual machine hosted on an SMB share may fail if the disk type information for the virtual machine disks is missing.

Directory browse of guest VM for agentless restore is failing.

SQL T-log backup runs at random intervals when disk caching is set to 4 hrs

Enhanced attachment download process to improve security and access control, ensuring proper recall of attachments in quick look preview.

Exchange playback sometimes may fail while fetching reconstruction list.

Upgrade golang version.

Certain Firewalls will block cvfwd traffic due to host header missing

Azure Backup Discovery can be slow or fail with many tag based selection rules.

Failure in AIX Informix Database backups

Viewing application group content may display error "Something went wrong."

User is able to delete tape content skipping the approvals when a local user group associated to the external group is set as approver in DeleteTapeMediaContentsAuthorization workflow

Data retention lock can now be enabled without requiring an authentication code with this update. Please note that an authentication code is still required for actions like disabling the retention lock or reducing the locked days on existing setups.

FSO jobs CWE "Invalid UTF-u middle byte 0x52"

Improve the performance for Cloud Connector.

Live browse/FI failures observed due to checkVolumeReadiness failing.

Add DataRetentionLock/Enable api to whitelist

Added REST API endpoint to enable data retention lock on storage policy copy.

When the primary index server media agent is unavailable, the backup job might trigger index reconstruction on a non-index server media agent, possibly leading to an overload.

K8S ETCD backup job fails if VirtualServer/bK8sSkipVolsFromAppDiscovery additional setting is set.

Content Indexing operations for filesystems may fail when the plan is configured to use multiple content analyzers.

AD GPO:Group Policy Object (GPO) operations may fail with an access_denied error in certain configurations.

Some VM synthetic full jobs might be missed in backup job summary report.

The time is off by 1 hour, causing issue with sql query output for log validation

Exchange journal mailbox playback sometimes may fail with PST Ingestion job.

Failed multi-striped backups for Azure Managed SQL instances may result in leftover intermediate backup files on Azure blob storage.
Failed multi-striped backups for AWS RDS SQL instances may result in leftover intermediate backup files on AWS S3 storage.

Security fixes for Content Extractor pdf extractor library

In case of a cross configured content for a subclient, snap backup was failing

K8S: Excluding the PVC using Backup filters also skips backup of the PVC manifest.

Proxmox backup may fail with an expired session.

Teams Content indexing job goes to pending state.

Incremental replication may fail intermittently.

Improved Windows certificate handling by enhancing fallback mechanism for certificate creation, ensuring reliable operation despite access permission issues.

Oracle Logical Dump on-premises to RDS restore fails

Improved tag management functionality in Case Manager search by adding the option to remove tags. Enhanced user experience with a tabbed interface for adding and removing tags in a single modal.

Memory size of the temporarily restored/replicated VM is greater than 1 GB.

When Exchange Mailbox backup detects too many emails that have been modified, indicating another full backup will occur, it gets stuck in an infinite loop.

Enhanced Exchange Hybrid UI with stub rehydration options for improved email recovery control and reporting.

After a Linux 1-Touch restore, system boot may be impacted due to the generation of a random file system UUID during file system creation as part of 1-Touch restore.

Unable to complete backup due to vsbkp.exe crash

We are seeing an issue in hotadd conversion with windows access node where we are not able to acquire the lock on the volume. We fail to delete the mount point and fail to detach the volume.

Resolved an issue where snapshot backups failed when remote MediaAgents were present and LUNs were cross-configured.

Full exports(backup) may fail sometimes saying future timestamp error
Primary Key may not be restored when overwrite is not selected

Delete instance/client may fail with DB error.

At times, the Storage Dashboard overview does not display any data.

Guest file restores may not correctly honor the default destination client chosen during the restore operation.

When upgrading from 11.36 to a higher feature release, if the upgrade is interrupted before configuration is performed and then feature release upgrade is initiated again, we encounter a failure in when executing the Pre-Upgrade steps.

The job status and failure message have been updated to provide clear information when NSX tags are not restored.

Backup and restore might get stuck or crash in an environment with large number of datastores

k8s restore failed while writing data without error details

Kubernetes restore may skip some custom resources

Share new Media Agent with other paths in storage, after completion of mount path move to a new location

CVJobReplicatorPopulator service has very high CPU usage on scale Commservers

App aware - VM client registration fails when VSA access node can be reachable through network proxy only

Customers could only run full backups for BigQuery tables as no support existed for Incremental backups

Qcommand logging for non group user.

Skip configuring edge drive for RA Project

Command Center may not start properly if older client certificates are present in the environment

FileScan gets stuck in an endless loop when the following conditions are true: -The subclient content is a reparse point folder with the reparse tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT -Follow mount points is enabled -Process top level content item is enabled (this is enabled by default for old scan, and false by default on shared scan)

Alerts being triggered for index backups not completing in the last 30 days

Now with this form, on a linux system even a non root user can run .sh scripts without going through changeFileAttributes.

Enhancement to create Secure Bulk Insert SP Wrapper using enumerator folder identifiers from which files can read from and avoid passing in an actual argument file path for better security

Objects with special characters in their names or paths encounter backup failures, with an error stating the object is missing.

In certain cases, the WebServer process does not initialize successfully following IIS recycling.

SMTP addresses are not encoded correctly

Failures may occur during NAS synthetic full backups when no data is protected in the incremental backup.

Teams backup logging enhancement for better troubleshooting.

Enhance resource filtering by adding disk filtering within application.

VSA FI - Handle the VM status when the job is interrupted

App aware - manually deconfigured instances are automatically getting configured

VMs may fail to backup

Post upgrade, services failed to initialize on macOS.

Job Manager may become unresponsiveness when processing Kubernetes apps for creating VM jobs

Unable to update the subclient policy associations on the CommCell Console

Uploading file may fail if not using S3 regional endpoint.

AD users may observe incorrect login attempt counts on the AD side when proxies are configured.

Improved performance for CSV export functionality in FSO.

vsbkp process crashes backing up VMWare VMs, vixdisklib.log shows VDDK panic messages

UEFI boot not honored for replicated Nutanix VMs.

Updating to Threat Scan SDK 4.15.26 and applying the latest VDF updates will eliminate false positives found in previous SDK version.

Health Report "Subclients Not Having Full backup in last 60 days" fails to load.

Disable Threat Indicator alert by default.

Upgrading Apache Tomcat to apply the latest security fixes and other bug fixes.

Billing script to retrieve a list of backup jobs, stored on Object Storage using Rest API may take longer time to complete.

TPPM HTTP2 connections are failing on Windows Server 2019 clients.

For vcd organization account hypervisor, on setting the guest credentials, "adminInstanceId" and "enableAdminAccount" properties get populated with the default values.

Handled a Crash - if job ctrl initialization fails during registering the job in JM

Upgrading mongo DB binaries to latest minor version.

Improved Exchange DAG restore process by fixing data synchronization issues, enhancing error handling, and refining database selection logic for a smoother user experience.

For description based event alerts, if the description was very long, suppress alert functionality was not working.

Email settings may encounter token acquisition issues with modern authentication because of permission errors.

Teams backup sometimes may complete with errors when items in the source are in accessible.

CVDistributer may fail to launch on a machine which is used as Access Node

Unable to download XML files during the OneTouch recovery process via REST API.

Enhanced export functionality by adding a configurable retention period option. Administrators can now easily adjust data retention policies based on compliance needs.

File system Epic backup of a VM with PRDM enabled disk may show SAN degradation after successful backup copy job

The login banner lacks background and incorrect word wrapping.

Excess redundant data may be produced on CVFS version 5.0.9 under certain conditions.

Exchange Discovery may fail.

Proxmox - Do not fail restore job if we fail to restore metadata disks

Full VM restores from VMware backups may have boot issues

AMI creation fails with error "Tag keys starting with 'aws:' are reserved for internal use"

SMC Enhancement for Amazon S3 with object lock support

NAS NDMP backup has low dedupe on some volumes.

Snap copy with spool retention may retain the latest snapshot for VMware hypervisor backups even after completing the backup copy job.

Use Secure Bulk Insert SP Wrapper for enhanced security.

datafile path is not correct for a tablespace during browse.

Job throttle configuration may not be honored for PostgreSQL log backups.

Log backup might fail as we fail to find a required log segment

In certain situations, Auxiliary Copy jobs may not resume as expected after a blackout window.

Data Guard CV instance config is not getting auto updated in daily auto discovery flow, when member instance is not RAC type and its ORACLE_HOME is upgraded in /etc/oratab.

Override options fail to load when adding a new virtual machine to the existing replication group.

The export functionality for the File Monitoring report is currently not working as intended.

A task is blocking the creation of snapshots during virtual machine migrations using HCX.

Enhanced LDAP authentication logging with performance metrics, structured formatting, and detailed error messages for easier troubleshooting and issue resolution.

No incremental backup option for BigQuery

Remove automatically generated schedules for rotating SQL credentials if they exist. During an upgrade, a schedule for running workflows to rotate all SQL credentials may be created, potentially causing service interruptions.

Command Center users with view-only permissions at the commcell level can improperly adjust settings in the SLA and Strike pages

Qlogin not working when strong password length exceeds 128 characters

Teams side additional check to differentiate between retention and archive policy.

Unable to load SQL replication group details page

SQL restores may fail due to an attempt to use incorrect credentials when utilizing credentials stored in external/third party credential vaults

AIX Oracle snap backup may fail with mklv error

HTTP proxy may get utilized when configured for internal network URLs.

Under certain conditions, auxiliary copy jobs might be inaccurately reported as failed or completed with errors when jobs are skipped because they are not cataloged on the source copy.

Enhancing performance for MySQL Xtrabackup

Improved display of Last Week job summary graph in Virtualization dashboard by fixing timezone formatting issue. Ensures consistent English time zone naming and maintains backward compatibility.

Log Files folder might have incorrect folder persmissions.

Improved query set creation and saving reliability in the SaveQuery modal by fixing a critical bug and adding necessary asynchronous handling.

Teams add content search sometimes may show inaccurate results with underscore symbol.

The backup process may encounter a crash when a single node processes a high volume of virtual machines.

CVFWD may become unresponsive on Macs after going in and out of sleep

Some cities are not available in the Region location search

Exchange DAG restore job was going to Pending state when restoring from calendar

Backup operations for SharePoint V2 webs with minimal or no changes may still take a short amount of time to complete.
SharePoint V2 - On large tenants, backup performance may be affected by throttling and could be optimized

Do not update free space during backup jobs for Store once and Data Domain storage

MSSQL sweep jobs are not starting up for cloud library mount path

Archiving jobs on Unix may fail when older jobs are aged while a current job is in progress.

Jogmanager log may log error about deprecated call.

Backup job running without any progress due to EWS Server error for few items and adding it for retry and delaying the request for 3 minutes, that is impacting the SLA too.

Hardware monitoring support for SMC server used by Hitachi

Isilon CList backup job may fail if a folder is renamed and deleted between two backup jobs
CList job might fail when processing the renamed folders

High QSDK CPU when running a large number of tlog backups via commandline

Update reverse replication schedule in failback if its configured on replication group and failback perform on few pairs

Oracle C3 bootVolumes may not be identified causing Authorization or wrong API failure.

Appliance upgrades on cluster nodes are not being triggered by hyperscale disruptive upgrade jobs started from the CommCell console.

The Retire Job Form REST API is not updating the job status to CS.

Improved help dropdown to display support option for non-metallic OEM users, ensuring consistent access to support resources.

System may unexpectedly panic or reboot when the audit subsystem experiences high load or buffer overflows.

audit log records would be created when any process accessing resolv.conf and getting denied.

The browse operation might fail with an error indicating 'Failed to restore index logs from media,' despite the media being available.

Webserver may crash on RHEL 9.x machine with FIPS enabled.

The Health Report feature occasionally fails to generate results. Under certain conditions, the Health Report may not execute successfully. Issues may arise that prevent the Health Report from completing its operation.
AWS STS for Cost Assessment may fail

VM client creation - There might be duplicate clients if the restored VM is discovered from server group

Rebranded a virtual machine interface to provide a consistent user experience and streamlined configurations. Updated the naming of virtualization features to enhance clarity and uniformity across the user interface. Improved the product interface by standardizing naming conventions for better usability and configuration handling.

HSX storage file level restore has very low throughput

Improved Two-Factor Authentication error handling for domain users when email functionality is disabled. Enhanced troubleshooting with debug logging. Ensures proper authentication and security compliance.

Resolved a problem where job objects were inaccurately identified as applications, resulting in backup errors.

Log commit jobs failing due to missing collect file

Java UI Enhancements

MongoDB Bigdata snap backup might fail to catalog the contents of the snapshots on AWS vms using nvme controller

Export of Exchange User, Journal MB and SMTP ContentStore Journal emails to ,EML are exporting emails in .MSG format

Unable to create new DAG Client

Postgres dump restore might fail when all databases are selected

Enhanced browse functionality on the Indexing PageBase to optimize performance in relevant environments. Updated the Indexing PageBase to improve browse functionality and performance for version-specific use cases.

Even though the report has loaded successfully, a failure in the getDynamicFederatedSchema call throws a UI error.

Validation of newly restored VMs using a patch scheme may fail due to the strict requirement of a specific tag, which was originally present but overwritten during the tagging process. When restoring VMs using the patch scheme, validation may encounter issues due to specific tags being overwritten during the tagging process instead of retaining the original configuration. Restored VM validations using patch schemes could fail if required tags are overwritten during the restoration process instead of preserving their original configuration.

NAS backup using changelist may cause job results directory to fill up.

The job object includes batch.kubernetes.io labels and selectors, leading to restore failures. These labels and selectors are removed during backup to address the issue.

Teams chat restore sometimes may restore less items with search filters.

MQ CheckReadiness is not working in cluster based setup.

Message Queue Check Readiness is not working in cluster-based setup.

The UpdateLiveSyncSchedule operation encounter issues during its initial attempts while performing failover.

Allow user to customize email approval links in GetAndProcessAuthorization workflow.

Security posture score details may not get updated in metrics server

Azure VM Restore jobs that have direct upload to managed disk enabled may fail after waiting for 10 or more minutes if the client or managed entity does not have permissions to the storage account selected in the restore job.

SaaS metering and usage: Azure Database Usage is double counted

Restore is failing in restore to PST or Disk while fetching admin accounts credentials.

CVFS version can occasionally take up to 30 min to update in Command Center after successful upgrade.
HyperScale v2 to v3 upgrade may fail if the flachedata lv was shrunk or removed.
When running HyperScale X v2 to v3 upgrade via cloud UCS console, the session can timeout during node imaging.

VM backup sets and subclients showing incorrect status flags (bit 2) after reconfigure operations

After CCM's name change, if SourceCS has CSLivesync package installed, the client service may go down after some time.

When performing a restore-based security scan on virtual machines, mounted virtual machines from different subscriptions or hypervisor types, specifically Linux-based hypervisors, may fail if mounted in parallel

VSA backup may fail with error "Failed to run archive index logs"

App aware - Application restore is failing when the VM is backed up using BIOS Guid.

Unable to perform test failover if vm is part of multiple vm group with different storage policy.

Improved NAS Storage vServer detection by filtering out invalid entries without a zapiHostName property, preventing unintended modifications to existing Storage Virtual Machines.

Enhancement to support EBS volumeInitializationRate property during backup and restore.

show enabled Remote Caches for sync

MySQL - Job might be marked as success even when no database is backed up.

Sorting during FS browse from Command center is not working

Improvement in recall logging to streamline troubleshooting efforts.

Addressed a bug where workflows weren't executing from schedule policy, leading to potential errors during schedule policy submission.

Customer may not able to run backups if CS is on foreign locale like Thai locale

FSO jobs running on backed up content may fail

Application backup might fail for Amazon Appaware snap backup

NetApp IntelliSnap snap operations may fail with large rule indexes.

Restore job could fail on scale setup under certain condition

In place restore over existing Azure VMs may fail if the existing VM has a VM ID that differs from the one in the VM backup metadata. This only happens when there are delete restrictions on the existing VM.

GitHub restore jobs are unable to complete because of repository creation failure.

The data for the VM group content tile in Command Center: VSA failed to load.

For MySQL restores, setting the MEB --backup-dir option to the staging directory.

DB2 backups may fail with vendor code error -1 as Commvault binaries are linked to different libatomic.a version than the one loaded by DB2 process.

LiveUpdateJob playback fails when there is an end user erase

Tenants are unable to login when AD connection is configured via proxy

File Server with archiver driver is becoming unresponsive

SAML logins are not working when showLoginEula flag is not enabled

Attachments may not be visible in compliance-search preview, however the attachments are available on restoring the messages

Jobs may complete with errors caused by a failure in metadata retrieval during the backup process.
Restore jobs may encounter a pending status due to a technical issue with the update feed API.

Some clients may experience Linux VG mounting issues when systemid cannot be cleared.

Salesforce INCR does not complete even after several attempts

Unable to access support portal when logging in for the first time

When proxies are configured, customers may notice incorrect login attempts being recorded on the Active Directory side, potentially leading to premature account disablement before the actual invalid login attempts occur.

Backup copy jobs may encounter issues if there are duplicate buckets present in different indexes.

Improved user experience by aligning package options with vendor capabilities. Enhanced FREL package handling for specific virtualization platforms. Updated icons package.

- Changed HPE VME (Morpheus) visibility to be enabled by default in software deployments

Arbiter nodes may be automatically selected as master node for MongoDB instances

MySQL Instant Clone operation might fail for Indexing v2 client

Remote cache clients that are disabled do not appear in the CommCell Console.

Failback operation on continuous replication pairs may encounter issues. This enhancement ensures that the new pair being created will have a unique UUID assigned to the destination VM during its creation.

Backup copy jobs in Splunk encounter issues when exceeding 4 access nodes.

Email previews might fail for large excel attachments

HDFS backups are encountering issues and failing unexpectedly.

Filters added inside C:\Users were not getting honoured while running system state backup

Restore is failing in restore to PST or Disk while fetching admin accounts credentials.

Custom package creator app is not functioning properly.

Expiry date beyond 2038 does not work for access tokens. If a user attempts to create such a token, the created token has an expiry set to a past date

The backup of the d365 database table was unsuccessful.

Improved Gmail Restore to correctly handle Mail, Calendar, and Contacts selections, ensuring a reliable restore experience for users.

3rd party binaries had incorrect ELF headers causing RPM package creation to fail.

Scheduled Reports Job Status report is not functioning correctly in the cloud.

Updates to skip VMs from backup if its part of replication group

3rd party binaries had incorrect ELF headers causing RPM package creation to fail.

Emails are not being sent when SMTP server has authentication enabled

In place patch restore with direct upload to managed disk fails with an error.

Tunnels might experience dropped connections when network throttling is configured.

MySQL & Postgres DB user credentials might be lost when a user upgrades from older SPs to SP38.25 or above

Cloud requests may fail if the Azure server is identified as Azure Stack Hub with previous failed request.

NetApp snapshot paths are generating file not found errors for long paths, causing the scanning process to halt.

nbd module is not auto loaded on HPVME hosts HPVME vm restores may fail or the VM may fail to boot

The 'promote to FULL' conversion job submitted by the MSSQL automatic schedule is not getting resumed by either the job manager or the scheduler, if the CV services on the client are recycled.

Change to improve performance of HTML export output.

Data may be overwritten for DD Boost client library during restore/data verification.
DD Boost connection may not be reused after the request finished.

View failed items for dump backups may not work