Discontinuations

P5 Version 7.3 (November 12, 2024) no longer supports the following:

• FreeBSD 12
• Solaris
• Internet Explorer

P5 Version 7.2 (February 5, 2024):

• Synthetic full backup to tape media
  - Classic full and incremental backups are still supported.
   
• In P5 Synchronize
  - Cycle management: Copying files when creating a cycle is no longer supported.
  - Hard links and direct mapping as snapshots for file systems such as ZFS and BtrFS are still supported.
   
• In P5 Synchronize:
  - Modification detection: File size is no longer supported.
  - Modification time (mtime) and change time (ctime) are still supported.
   
• In P5 Backup tasks: 
  - Modification detection: Restore time (rtime) and file size are no longer supported.
  - Modification time (mtime) and change time (ctime) are still supported.

P5 Version 7.1 (October 4, 2022)

• P5 Backup2Go Module: P5 Backup2Go is only available in maintenance mode for 5 years from P5 version 7.1 onwards. The development of Backup2Go is now complete. Bug fixes and security patches will be released as needed.
• Single volume migration: Migration of individual tapes is no longer possible as of version 7.1. The further development of the previous program code for migrating data over many LTO generations was no longer possible. The requirements for compatibility, reliability and performance could only be realized by a new development. As a successor function, the P5 Archive Data Mover is now available.

P5 Version 7.0 (July 20, 2021)

• LTFS Exchange: Directly archive from or restore to an LTFS volume.
• As of version 7, LTFS tapes are no longer mounted as a file system within P5. Therefore, functions based on it can no longer be provided. The basic functions of reading and writing LTFS tapes are not affected.

P5 Version 6.1 (January 26, 2021)

• P5 Version 6.1 no longer supports the following:
  – FreeBSD 11
  – Backup2Go: File systems without snapshot capability are no longer supported as storage for the backup repository. Please move the backup repository to a snapshot-capable file system, e.g. ZFS or BtrFS.

P5 Version 6.0 (January 28, 2020)

• Version 6.0 no longer supports the following:
  – MacOS 10.8
  – Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R1
• Support for Linux versions before OpenSuSE 12.2/SLES 12, CentOS 7/RHEL 7/Fedora 19, Ubuntu 12, Debian 8 is discontinued
• Generic: discontinuation of Linux Versions with a glibc Version before 2.15
• There is no direct requirement for the Kernel version anymore
• The Archive App is only available in maintenance mode for 2 years from P5 version 6.0 onwards

P5 Version 5.6 (October 4, 2018)

• Version 5.6 on Solaris will only be available as a client version. For those platforms, tape support is no longer included. P5 Version 5.5.6 is the last version offering a server version with tape support for both platforms.
• FreeBSD only available as a client version (P5 server on FreeBSD re-introduced in P5 version 6.0)
• P5 Backup2Go: Backup repository on file systems that do not support snapshots, such as Apple HFS+, Windows NTFS, Linux EXT*, UFS, enter maintenance mode*. Therefore, Backup2Go is no longer available on Mac and Windows.
• QuickTime support for Archive previews removed 
• Support for PresSTORE 4 (P4) backup and archive indexes is discontinued in version P5 5.6 and later. Since the introduction of P5 (Q2/2013), the following options were available:
  – Archive indexes: Could be converted to the new index format of P5
  – Backup indexes: Were available for a limited period of time to allow to restore data
  The support of older P4 indexes is discontinued in P5 5.6 and later.

P5 Version 5.5 (August 22, 2017)

• Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7 support
• Linux with Kernel versions older than 2.6.32
• Solaris SunOS 5.8/5.9 support
• Solaris 11+ Tape & Library support
• 32-Bit support

November 29, 2016

• WingFS/P5 Synchronize integration

October 21, 2016

• MediaLTFS - support continues until June 30, 2017