Releases From October 2026

October 2026

CTERA Edge Filer version 7.13.x was first released with version 7.13.6000.3 and included new features, which are described in What’s New in CTERA Edge Filer Version 7.13.x.

New Features

ID Number	Description
APP-29827, APP-30849, APP-30886	The support report content has been expanded to help with troubleshooting.
APP-30599,APP-30658	Performance improvements, especially when there are many empty cloud folders and cloud folders without exceptions.
APP-30723, APP-30727, APP-30875, APP-30879, APP-30881, APP-30885, APP-30903, APP-30907, APP-30908, APP-30987, APP-30989, APP-30990, APP-30998	Improvements to searches: * Monitoring the CTERA Search service has been added to the Services page. This service is enabled when the Advanced Search option has been installed on the CTERA Portal. * The search results page size has been increased to 200. * Search results require TLS validation. * A maximum number of returned results can be set. For details contact CTERA Support.
APP-30804, APP-30805	Improved security, including resolving CVE-2026-64600.
APP-30829, APP-30830, APP-30836, APP-30839	macOS Spotlight improvements including changing the default number of worker processes to 5 and making this value configurable by running CLI. For details, contact CTERA Support.

Resolved Issues

ID Number	Description
APP-29474	Audit logs could be set up to write to a share that pointed to an archive folder.
APP-30184	POSIX ACLs were not enforced on shares on a second volume.
APP-30806, APP-30838	There was a high RAM usage during a migration.
APP-30816	In CTERA Edge Filer version 7.13.6000.19, if a folder was deleted while a nested file was open, the nested file is not deleted.
APP-30828	A user could be added to both the blocked users group and the excluded users group.
APP-30831	From CTERA Edge Filer version 7.13.6000.16, rebooting the edge filer intermittently prevented full deduplication of files.
APP-30832	macOS Finder could produce different search queries based on whether Enter was pressed or not after typing the search term.
APP-30874	Audited SMB traffic consumed writable tmpfs (temporary file system).
APP-30899, APP-30900, APP-30902	Improvements when a Fusion Direct cloud folder is configured: * When Azure storage is used. * Uploading small files from the edge filer to the portal.
APP-30935, APP-30975, APP-30976	When NAS was down, users and groups crashed.
APP-30988	Directory names ending with a space or period displayed in macOS as empty.

Windows and macOS

*.localhost hostname now resolves to 127.0.0.1 / ::1 without extra configuration.
Microsoft PowerPoint files open faster.

Windows

Windows no longer goes to sleep while a file transfer is running, so transfers aren’t interrupted.

macOS

Windows and macOS

The client prompted you to pick a certificate when accepted issuers were not listed by the WebDAV server.
Read-only files could not be pinned and kept on the local disk.
Moving a file from a subfolder to the root cloud folder now syncs right away.
Opening Microsoft Word files took a long time.
Partial reads from Microsoft PowerPoint caused performance problems.

macOS

Improved handling of Microsoft PowerPoint:
- Opening Microsoft PowerPoint files stalled the machine or increased CPU usage.
- In Integrated mode, there was an issue opening online PowerPoint files.
- Windows was significantly faster opening Microsoft PowerPoint files

In some cases, when Drive Connect is connected to a CTERA Portal version 8.2.1500.8.6 or earlier, SSO might not prompt the client mount. If this happens, enter the following URL in the browser: https://portal_address/ServicesPortal/activate?scheme=x-cteradriveconnect-action:websso