Read about the information that is new or changed in this release of the IBM Storage® Archive LE documentation.
Table 1. Storage Archive Library Edition 2.4.8 changes, released on June 30, 2025
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- Added support for LTO10 drive
- Added support for RHEL 9.4.
- Added support for Windows Server (x86-64): Versions 2022 and 2025 (Datacenter and Standard Editions).
- Sunset of RHEL 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, and 8.9.
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What's new in version 2.4.8.x fix pack releases
Table 2. Storage Archive LE 2.4.8.4 changes, released on June 15, 2026
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- Improved handling of memory allocation failures.
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In Windows
- Fixed dcache memory issues on Windows.
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Table 3. Storage Archive LE 2.4.8.3 changes, released on March 30, 2026
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- Added support for RHEL 9.7
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- Fixed an error formatting tape using 'leadm tape format' with option -b to specify blocksize
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- Fixed extra memory consumption that could let to ltfs to crash more frequently. This extra consumption is present from LE 2.4.8.0.
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In Windows
- Fixed Windows consuming extra memory
- Fixed Windows logging system, is now enabled by default
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Table 4. Storage Archive LE 2.4.8.2 changes, released on December 12, 2025
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- Added support for RHEL 9.6.
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- Added a tape position check routine to avoid writing the index if the current position reported by LTFS is not the same as the real reported by the drive. Caught SIGCONT and do the tape position check before writes. This prevents the start_block misalignment within index, preventing error LTFS11089E.
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- Windows only:
- Fixed an issue with folders that contained Unicode characters crashing main process.
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Table 5. Storage Archive LE 2.4.8.1 changes, released on August 25, 2025
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- Updated libxml2 to version 2.13.8 to address security vulnerability CVE-2025-32415
- Windows only:
- Fixed issue where binaries were crashing when displaying large messages on the console.
- Auto-upgrade functionality is now enabled; manual uninstallation is no longer required.
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