Improved support for dark sites: NetApp Backup and Recovery for dark sites now provides the same ONTAP Volumes data protection capabilities as NetApp Backup and Recovery. This enhancement includes updated backup, restore, and job-management services and a new metadata database. During an upgrade, existing database data is preserved and migrated automatically. After the upgrade, review the audit logs to verify that the migration completed successfully. NetApp Backup and Recovery for dark sites supports only ONTAP Volumes workloads.

Cancel volume restore jobs: You can now cancel ongoing ONTAP Volumes restore jobs from the job monitoring page, making it easier to manage long-running or slow-running jobs.

Improved volume indexing status reporting: The ONTAP Volumes dashboard now reports indexing status more accurately by introducing the Not Applicable status for volumes and snapshot copies that are not eligible for indexing. The Not Indexed status is now reserved for volumes that are waiting to be indexed, and volume details now show per-snapshot indexing status with hovertext that explains why a volume or snapshot copy will not be indexed.

NetApp AFX support: You can now protect volumes hosted on 2- and 4-node NetApp AFX clusters.

Trident Protect 26.09: This release includes Trident Protect 26.09.

Cluster- and namespace-granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): During Kubernetes cluster discovery, you can control access to resources by selecting a project or folder to associate with the new cluster. You can also register specific namespaces for access control. This enables more granular access control at either the cluster or namespace level.

Restore files and folders: You can now restore or download specific files and folders from Kubernetes VM-based application backups.

Trident Protect 26.08: This release includes Trident Protect 26.08.

Backup retries: You can now enable backup retries and configure the number of retry attempts and intervals between retries as advanced settings in Kubernetes protection policies.

Partial backup success: You can now configure advanced settings in Kubernetes protection policies to continue backing up when individual resources fail, allowing backup jobs to complete as partially successful. This enables you to restore backed-up resources even if some resources fail during the backup operation.

Crash-consistent and VM-consistent backups: Backup and Recovery for NetApp Console service now supports configuring protection policies that create crash-consistent or VM-consistent backups or snapshots. You can also customize how VM freezes are performed during the protection operation.

Reconnect Kubernetes cluster upon Console agent IP change: Backup and Recovery for NetApp Console service now enables you to reconnect a cluster to its Console agent if the IP address of the agent changes.

Migrate cluster to new Console agent: Backup and Recovery for NetApp Console service now enables you to migrate a cluster to a new Console agent if the original agent fails or is deleted, ensuring uninterrupted app protection.

Pluggable Database (PDB) restore: You can now restore individual pluggable databases (PDBs) and PDB tablespaces, including point-in-time recovery.

Pluggable Database (PDB) clone: You can now clone a single PDB into an existing target container database (CDB), and optionally exclude PDBs when you clone a complete container database.

Support for NetApp Console local deployment: This release of NetApp Backup and Recovery supports NetApp Console local deployment in preview status.

90 days of job retention: Backup and Recovery now retains job information in the Job Monitor for 90 days.

Restore to alternate location support for SAN VMs: You can now restore SAN-based VM backups to an alternate location.

Multiple backup delete support: You can now delete multiple backups at a time.

Preview support for air-gapped resources: If running NetApp Backup and Recovery in NetApp Console local deployment, you can discover, protect, and restore air-gapped Kubernetes resources. This feature is in preview for this release.

Prioritize restore jobs over backups: You can now prioritize restore jobs over backup jobs when you restore volumes, files, or folders.

Discover ONTAP systems and volumes without Backup and Recovery activation: You can now discover systems and volumes without activating Backup and Recovery.