EVO OS Version 7.0 includes more than a thousand improvements to the admin web GUI, security, reliability, and performance! Some of the most notable additions are summarized below. This version (and/or a subset of its features) have been shipping on new systems for several months.
In addition to these highlighted items, there are many other improvements and options, which are documented in the relevant sections of the EVO GUI's Help manual.
Hardware Compatibility
v.7.0 only ships on new systems and is not available for upgrade. A later version (7.0.1) is capable of upgrading eligible EVO systems; please read EVO OS v.7.0.1 Release Notes for more information.
EVO OS v.7.0 Release Notes
New Features
- Introduced completely new GUI [EVO-2077]
- Added federated management and monitoring of multiple EVO systems [EVO-217]
- Added ACL permissions for folder level permissions in EVO [EVO-2080]
- Added support for 100GbE [EVO-2535]
- Added support for local user groups for single-EVO environments w/o AD/LDAP [EVO-4604]
- Added HTTPS option for EVO GUI [EVO-12]
- Added historical view of alerts and warnings [EVO-3496]
- Introduced sticky nav header with capacity, throughput, and CPU graphs [EVO-3047]
- Added ability to populate navigation sidebar with custom shortcuts [EVO-3594]
- Reworked permissions management interface to simplify managing hundreds/thousands of users [EVO-1670]
- EVO's management UI can now be restricted to one physical Ethernet port [EVO-2789]
- Improved functionality of secondary/workflow administrator feature [EVO-3127]
- Introduced unified login experience (Splash page) for admin functions, ShareBrowser web app, and other plug-in services [EVO-3358]
- Administrators can now customize the cards on the Home page [EVO-3612]
- Introduced HTTPS support for ShareBrowser server [EVO-4033]
- Upgrade files can now be dragged and dropped to the GUI [EVO-2929]
- Added native support for USB devices formatted with exFAT [EVO-1972]
- Reworked plug-in architecture [EVO-2986]
- Improved recovery for unclean shutdowns [EVO-3584]
- Adjusted backup frequency of service component data [EVO-3831]
- Reworked handling of secondary OS disk [EVO-3597]
- Improved SNMP functionality [EVO-3606]
- DHCP client now enabled by default for eth1 [EVO-4380]
- Added support for Ryzen-based Prodigy [EVO-3505]
- Added support for Simplified Chinese [EVO-3552]