Tiger Bridge 5.0.3 Release Notes
What’s New in Tiger Bridge 5.0.3
Fixed Known Issues in Version 5.0.3
Upgrading to Tiger Bridge 5.0.3
Unresolved Known Issues

May 31, 2023

This document provides release information about version 5.0.3 of Tiger Bridge. It discusses newfeatures in this release as well as fixes and unresolved known issues.

What’s New in Tiger Bridge 5.0.3
Delete Files Matching a Time Criterion
Using the command-line interface of Tiger Bridge you can delete files from the source, the target orboth, applying a time criterion for the files’ creation, modification or last access time.
For details about the usage and specific syntax of the command, refer to the Tiger Bridge 5.0.3
Administration Guide.

Handling Empty Files on the Source
In Tiger Bridge 5.0.3 replicated files on your source that contain no data are treated as nearline oroffline. Thus, the command for reclaiming space in the shell extension is not available if you areattempting to perform it on an already replicated empty file. Additionally, the icon overlay of a folder
containing only empty files (or a combination of empty and nearline files) is the one for a folder
containing only nearline files i.e. indicating that no storage needs to be reclaimed.

Fixed Known Issues in Version 5.0.3
Tiger Bridge Explorer Stability
Version 5.0.3 prevents instability of the Tiger Bridge Explorer when you attempt to browse filteredcontents while Tiger Bridge has not yet finished processing the data analysis.

Replicating Files Copied From Another Location
With version 5.0.3 files copied to your source from another location are not replicated instantly to thetarget, but only when the specified timeout without modifications in the new location elapses.

Replicating Files with Future Modification Timestamp
With Tiger Bridge 5.0.3 files whose modification time is in the future are replicated instantly to thetarget.

Performing Manual Operations on Inapplicable Files
Version 5.0.3 resolves a problem, which could lead to a manual operation failure if it was not applicable
to all files on which you attempted to perform it. Now, when you perform a manual operation on
multiple files with different Tiger Bridge status, the operation is performed successfully on theapplicable files.

Reclaiming Modified Files with Unchanging Modification Timestamp
Tiger Bridge 5.0.3 lets you reclaim space on your source by moving files created with applications like
PowerPoint, for example, that allow a file’s size to change without changing its modification timestamp.

Fixed GDI Objects LeakIn previous versions, the Tiger Bridge tray application could cause larger percentage of GDI resources
consumption in the following cases:••

when Tiger Bridge was installed but not yet activatedwhen Tiger Bridge was replicating data to the target

Version 5.0.3 resolves this problem and prevents the Tiger Bridge tray application from starving out
other processes of GDI resources and potentially leading to system instability.

Tray Pop-up Notifications
Version 5.0.3 resolves a problem, which could prevent Tiger Bridge tray application pop-up notifications
from displaying in case no events have been logged in the Windows Event Viewer.

Clearing the Windows Icon Cache
With version 5.0.3 you can normally use the “Clear Windows icon cache” command in the Tiger Bridge
tray icon context menu.

Upgrading to Tiger Bridge 5.0.3
Upgrading from Version 4.x and Above
To upgrade Tiger Bridge to this new version, you should simply run the installation of version 5.0.3 on
the computer running Tiger Bridge. All configuration settings will be preserved after the upgrade.

Upgrading from Version 3.x and Below
To avoid two instances of the Tiger Bridge Configuration after the upgrade, it is advisable to uninstall theprevious version from the computer and then perform a clean installation of version 5.0.3, following thesteps in the Administration Guide. All configuration settings will be preserved after the upgrade.

Unresolved Known Issues
Displaying the Tiger Bridge Tray Icon
In some cases, after upgrading to version 5.0 the Tiger Bridge tray icon may not show initially. To resolve
the problem, you should either restart the computer after the upgrade or manually start it by doubleclicking tier_tray.exe in the Tiger Bridge installation folder.

Deleting Files from the Target When the Source is a Folder
Normally, regardless of the replication target type, as long as the “Delete replica when source file isremoved” option is enabled, when you delete one or more files from your source, they are also deleted
from the target. When this option is enabled and your target is a local volume or a network share, adeleted folder on your source will not be deleted from the target, unless you permanently delete it fromthe source i.e., empty the Recycle Bin. With object storage targets, a folder moved to the Recycle Bin orpermanently deleted is also deleted from the target, only if the whole volume is configured as a source.
If the source is just a folder on a volume, the folder will not be deleted from the object storage target.

Retrieving Offline Files from Google Cloud
Unlike other cloud targets, offline files stored on a Google Cloud target are directly retrieved on thesource when you attempt to open them or to manually rehydrate them.

Using Versioning Software on Azure Append/Page Blob
When using versioning on Microsoft Azure append or page blob as a target, you should keep in mind
that the first version of each file is not kept, and the second version overwrites it. From the second
version onwards, versioning works as expected on Azure append and page blobs.
A workaround to the problem is to introduce an insignificant change to the file after it has been initiallyreplicated on the Azure append/page blob (such as an added interval at the end of a text document, forexample) in order to trigger versioning for that file from that change onwards.