Syncovery full changelog

What changed in Syncovery 12.10:
No default password. There is no preset login such as “admin” / “pass” any more. When you open the web GUI of a new installation, you create the login yourself.
Passwords need at least 8 characters, and very common passwords are not accepted. They are stored only as salted, slow hashes, never in readable form.
Failed logins are limited. After 10 failed attempts within 15 minutes, for the same user name or from the same address, further attempts are refused until the 15 minutes have passed.
Logins from the Internet need a second factor: a code from an authenticator app, or a code sent by e-mail. Without one, such logins are refused.
Login recovery works only through a folder that an administrator of the machine creates (see below). The former fixed recovery password no longer exists.
Creating the first login:
When no login exists yet, the web GUI shows the page “Create the Login for the Web GUI”. Choose a user name and a password with at least 8 characters.
For security, the first login can be created:
from the computer or NAS that Syncovery runs on, at any time;
from your local network, within 60 minutes after Syncovery was started;
never from the Internet.
If the 60 minutes have passed, restart Syncovery (on a NAS: stop and start the Syncovery package in the App Center or Package Center) and reload the page.
On Windows and macOS, you can also set the web GUI login in the Program Settings of the Syncovery desktop program.
Logins from the Internet need a second factor:
Syncovery checks the address of every login. Addresses of your local network (such as 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x or VPN ranges like 100.64.x.x) and the computer itself are local. Every other address is treated as the public Internet, and a login from there always needs a second factor, also for user accounts and for the read-only login.
For local logins, the second factor is optional. An administrator can require it for all logins in the Program Settings (Second

Can now download large files from Dropbox public links, which take over one hour to download. Dropbox interrupts transfers after one hour, and Syncovery can now resume.
While processing recursive listings from servers such as S3 or rsync, Syncovery will no longer raise the exception “Action not possible while processing recursive listing” if special tasks come up, such as listing the versioning folder outside the recursive hierarchy or deleting duplicate files or folders. A separate connection will now be used for such side tasks.

Can now download large files from Dropbox public links, which take over one hour to download. Dropbox interrupts transfers after one hour, and Syncovery can now resume.
While processing recursive listings from servers such as S3 or rsync, Syncovery will no longer raise the exception “Action not possible while processing recursive listing” if special tasks come up, such as listing the versioning folder outside the recursive hierarchy or deleting duplicate files or folders. A separate connection will now be used for such side tasks.

A rare infinite retry loop with cloud requests has been fixed.
A rare situation where an updated authentication token was not updated in a cloud API request header was fixed. This could then lead to the infinite loop.

A rare infinite retry loop with cloud requests has been fixed.
A rare situation where an updated authentication token was not updated in a cloud API request header was fixed. This could then lead to the infinite loop.

Reminds users to keep encryption passwords safe every three months and offers to export them to a password manager via clipboard or print them.
Fixes an issue downloading directly to some network drives on Windows, when not using the internal SMB client. The Windows SMB redirector sometimes reports less Bytes as the size of a file than have actually been written, and some parts of Syncovery depended on the reported size being correct.

Fixes a problem where the removal of empty folders at the end of a running job used the Windows SMB redirector rather than the internal SMB client.

Fixes HTTP downloads on Windows 11 due to TLS 1.3 not working
Includes OpenSSL 3.6.5 again because the Mega connector needs it
Minor bug fixes

Significant improvements and fixes for hard link processing. The Synvovery Remote Service can now report the link counts and file IDs when generating the listing. Syncovery can now also recognize hard links on SMB shares, and recognize and create hard links when using its new internal SMB client.
One additional type of DropBox public links is now supported.

Syncovery’s HTTP protocol can now download from all known types of Google Drive and DropBox public links.
The internal SMB client has now been hooked up for Zip Package destinations (when not compressing directly to destination), and for 7-zip packages to be created on SMB paths.
A bug introduced in version 12.7.3 has been fixed that caused Synthetic backup to copy all blocks every time rather than only the modified ones.