Agent v1.17.0 — March 20, 2026
Enhancements:
Windows Instant Onboarding: reliability improvements
Significant stability improvements to the Instant Onboarding feature introduced in v1.16.0:
Partition GUID reassignment during onboarding to prevent disk signature collisions.
Disk shrink now uses VDS APIs with WMI as fallback, and IOCTL codes as a further fallback, improving compatibility across configurations.
EFI partition entry is created where needed to enable write access to disks already in a storage pool (QUORUM fix).
Storage pool and physical disk health is validated before onboarding begins.
Metadata backups are captured at four stages of the operation for more granular rollback options on failure.
If insufficient unallocated space is available for storage pool metadata, the agent automatically shrinks the partition by 2 GB rather than failing.
Storage provider cache is refreshed before checking disk pool eligibility, preventing stale state from blocking onboarding.
Spanned and striped volume onboarding (Windows)
Data onboarding via mirror now supports spanned and striped Windows volumes. Previously these volume types were unsupported and would result in an error.
Deboard rollback
A new rollback operation has been added for data deboard failures during mirror sync. If a deboard fails partway through, the agent can now reverse the operation rather than leaving the disk in a partially deboarded state.
Credential management
The agent can now retrieve its access credentials from the Lucidity orchestration layer at startup instead of relying solely on the local config file. Config-file credentials remain available as a fallback. This is the underlying mechanism for the authentication improvements in v1.18.0.
Bug Fixes:
GCP NVMe disk name resolution
Fixed a failure in disk name resolution for GCP instances using NVMe-attached disks, where certain disk identifiers could not be matched to their metadata entries.
Linux:
Amazon Linux 2: boot rebuild support
A new operation has been added to handle boot partition rebuilds on Amazon Linux 2 instances in specific configurations.