Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery IRIS release notes

Topic

This article contains software release notes for Datto SIRIS, ALTO, and NAS Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) appliances. To learn how to deploy a Datto appliance, see Setting up a new Datto appliance

Environment

  • Datto SIRIS
  • Datto ALTO
  • Datto NAS

Description

The software stack on Datto appliances is named IRIS. Release notes for this software stack appear here, ordered from the most recent release to the oldest.

Datto pushes IRIS updates out to devices on a rolling basis. Your device may not be updated immediately upon each new release. Update windows will vary, but are generally completed within one to two weeks of the initial release date.

Index

2025

Releases

Datto IRIS 5.0.2 03-12-2025

IBU: 2936

Notes

  • This release contains major OS upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 which brings a lot of improvements and bugfixes to long-lasting issues.
  • Updating from Ubuntu 16.04-based systems is not supported.
  • Due to security concerns, as of this release, new USB roundtrips will need to be encrypted.

Bug Fixes

  • IO errors are now properly reported for S5-X devices on Advanced Device Status page.
  • Reliability of DHCP lease restoration is improved.
  • UI issues related to Backup Verification Scripts were resolved.
  • Temperature reporting on SIRIS5 was overhauled which should result in improved consistency and reliability of both current values and thresholds.