Dell DDOS, DDVE, DDMC, DD BoostFS, and DD Boost OpenStorage (OST) 7.13.1.x Release Notes

Summary: This article provides information about the patch release updates to the Dell PowerProtect Data Domain (DD) OS, PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE), PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC), DD BoostFS, and DD Boost for OpenStorage Release 7.13.1.0, 7.13.1.05, 7.13.1.10, 7.13.1.20, 7.13.1.25, 7.13.1.30, 7.13.1.40, and 7.13.1.50. ...

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Known issues, environmental and system requirements, and installation or update considerations that are associated with these patch releases are the same as the parent release. For more information, see the Dell DDOS, PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE), DD Management Center (DDMC), DD BoostFS, and DD Boost OpenStorage (OST) 7.13.1.0 to 7.13.1.40 Release Notes (Requires Dell Online Support login).

 

Release Revision History

Release Description
7.13.1.50
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.50 (November 2025)
7.13.1.40
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.40 (August 2025)
7.13.1.30
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.30 (June 2025)
7.13.1.25
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.25 (April 2025)
7.13.1.20
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.20 (January 2025)
7.13.1.10
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.10 (November 2024)
7.13.1.05
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.05 (September 2024)
7.13.1.0
  • Initial release of 7.13.1.0 (June 2024)
  • Correction in new features: The DDMC MTree projections functional area is analytics.

 

7.13.1.50 Release (November 2025)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.50-1204380
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.50-1204380
  • DDMC Build: 7.13.1.50-1204380

DDOS Cloud

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-23184 Fixed an issue where cloud garbage collection failed on upgraded DD systems due to inconsistent object formats.

DDOS File system

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-26362 Fixed an issue where a segmentation fault occurred in the dd_dprintf() function during the execution of dmbt_scm_validate_spillover_page_checksums(). 
DDOSCFD-27532 Fixed a PANIC alert issue caused by double-freeing an element in dd_cache, now with added logging to identify affected elements.

 DDOS General

Fixed Issue Description
CPE08D-1233 Fixed an issue where attempting to re-image the DD with USB image 7.13.1.x failed due to the absence of a required RPM file.
PDD09B-611 Fixed an issue where the DDMC scheduled reports were not being received properly after upgrade.

DDOS Network

Fixed Issue Description
PDD05D-554 Fixed an issue where the CIFS Server objects were being dropped from Active Directory due to prolonged inactivity.

DDOS Security

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-27661 Fixed an issue where Data Domain Boost precert logging exceeded configured limits by removing unnecessary ddboost_precert.ini file from NW server.
DDOSCFD-28047 Fixed an issue where changing the passphrase would cause the GUI to restart and trigger an alert when using self-signed certificates.

7.13.1.40 Release (August 2025)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.40-1186473
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.40-1186473
  • DDMC Build: 7.13.1.40-1186473
  • BoostFS Build: 7.13.1.40-1186210
  • DDBoost Build: 7.13.1.20-1148611 

DDOS

Unsupported Feature

Feature Description
ConnectEMC

 

ConnectEMC is no longer supported and has been replaced by SupportAssist. For more details on using the SupportAssist user interface, refer to the DD Operating System Administration Guide.

 

DDOS Cloud

Fixed Issue Description

DDOSCFD-26146

Resolved an issue where the V1 cloud-profile API was logging credentials in plaintext in audit logs, by updating the API to mask sensitive information.

DDOS File system

Fixed Issue Description

DDOSCFD-26333

Resolved an issue where a panic occurred due to a rare race condition.

PDD09I-386

Fixed an issue where FD leaks were detected.

 DDOS General

Fixed Issue Description

DDOS-276830

Updated the certificate import process using PKCS12 to use AES-256-CBC.

DDOS Network

Fixed Issue Description

DDOSCFD-18788

Fixed an issue where the HA service port 3013 was vulnerable to ssl-static-key-cipher.

PDD05D-373

Fixed an issue where standby nodes lose their Active Directory connection when the Windows Machine Account password expires or renews on the active node.

PDD09I-448

Fixed an issue where SNMP traps stopped working after upgrade.

DDOS Platform

Fixed Issue Description
  • DDOSCFD-26394
  • PDD09I-299
  • PDD09I-303

Fixed multiple issues where there were kernel panics due to memory leaks.

CPE08E-274

Fixed an issue where vulcand crashes due to a missing esx-iso entry in /etc/hosts.

DDOS Replication

Fixed Issue Description

DDOSCFD-19561

Fixed an issue where the source system encountered a panic with a "no match cookie" due to an inconsistency with the destination system.

DDOS Security

Fixed Issue Description

DDOSCFD-25359

Fixed an issue where the value for the Subject-Alt-Name field was getting truncated due to character limit constraint.

DDOSCFD-26086

Resolved an issue where the Data Domain was recording PIN details while configuring SCG through UI.

DDOSCFD-26220

Fixed an issue where a panic occurred when running the reporting tool after an upgrade.

PDD05D-68

Fixed an issue where Kerberos authentication fails when joining Active Directory machines upgraded to Windows 2025 with PowerProtect DD.

PDD06B-424

Fixed an issue where vulnerabilities were discovered in REST API authentication calls.

PDD06D-447

Fixed an issue where a difference in response time was observed between valid and invalid username login attempts, resulting in a potential vulnerability.

PDD09I-453

Fixed an issue where the PIN used for SCG configuration was being logged when configuring SCG using the GUI.

PDD09I-289

Fixed an issue where the "autosupport" command allowed sending sensitive information to an external email address.

DDMC

Unsupported Feature

Feature Description
Smart Scale

The Smart Scale feature is not supported in this release. To access this feature, upgrade to the latest LTS release.

NOTE: The Smart Scale feature will be deprecated in future 7.13 LTS releases.

7.13.1.30 Release (June 2025)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.30-1175075
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.30-1175075
  • DDMC Build: 7.13.1.30-1175075

DDOS Cloud

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-24896 Resolved an issue where data was deleted due to the timestamp being set to a garbage value.
PDD02C-124 Fixed an issue where migration compatibility checks did not compare the source and destination cloud capacity.

DDOS File system

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-21785 Resolved an issue where there was a file system panic and restart.
DDOSCFD-24404 Fixed an issue where the total number of used streams is over the DD total streams.
DDOS-265515 Fixed an issue where the system encountered a PANIC when reading the encryption metadata page.

 DDOS General

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-23307 Fixed an issue where the TPM status showed 'TPM device not available'.
DDOSCFD-23619 Fixed an issue where the '@' character was not supported in the UI.
DDOSCFD-24378 Resolved an issue where the FC card was dumped each time there was a DD reboot.
DDOSCFD-24941 Resolved an issue where there were multiple kernel panics due to low memory conditions.
DDOSCFD-25226 Resolved an issue where there was a kernel panic due to slow disk.
DDOS-288108 Resolved an issue where the "date" field was missing in mails.
DDOS-288423 Resolved an issue where SupportAssist was not getting enabled.
DDOS-288728 Resolved an issue where the notification method was set to connectemc after upgrade.
DDOS-289341 Resolved an issue where SupportAssist registration was failing due to Direct Dell Backend URL not being accessible.
DDOS-290018 Fixed an issue where there was a wrong URL link in Configure SupportAssist.
DDOS-290314 Resolved an issue where the notification method was set to mail after upgrade.
DDOS-290378 Fixed an issue where remote support was disabled after upgrade.

DDOS Network

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-24480 Resolved an issue wherein user could not disable ddboost using REST API limited-admin user token.
DDOSCFD-25302 Fixed an issue where the External LAN Heartbeat status on HA appliances was showing "not ok".
DDOS-211593 Fixed an issue where VTL responded with a truncated serial number.
DDOS-240298 Fixed an issue where the serial number format was incompatible.

DDOS Platform

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-21154 Fixed an issue where the disk was set to pending and waiting for copy for reconstruction.
DDOSCFD-21772 Resolved an issue where there was a firmware alert showing up.
DDOS-235079 Fixed an issue where dialhomes were not generated on a failed disk.
DDOS-264983 Resolved an issue where temperature alerts were not displayed.
DDOS-277711 Resolved an issue where the health check was showing wrong information for "fan".
DDOS-277812 Resolved an issue where the health check was not reporting the right status.
DDOS-280338 Resolved an issue where the health check was not reporting the right status.
DDOS-290263 Resolved an issue where disk failure alerts were not sent to CloudIQ.

DDOS Replication

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-22521 Fixed an issue where the migration precheck failed to validate if the destination storage in less than the source storage.

DDOS Security

Fixed Issue Description
CPE08G-233 Fixed an issue where a vulnerable port was discovered. 
DDOSCFD-24775 Fixed an issue where after upgrading the DDOS, the value of the server port was reset to the default value.
DDOSCFD-25454 Fixed an issue where there was a DDOS upgrade failure from 8.1.0.011 to 8.3.0.15 due to missing /ddvar/certificates.

 

7.13.1.25 Release (April 2025)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.25-1161300
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.25-1161300
  • DDMC Build: 7.13.1.25-1161300

Changed features

Issue Description Workaround or Resolution
DDOS-289508

NFS export /ddvar is replaced with five new exports: /ddvar/core, /ddvar/log, /ddvar/traces, /ddvar/releases, and /ddvar/support.


The exports created before the upgrade do not retain the previously added client information. The clients who have mounted /ddvar/ on these directories encounter a Stale File Handle.

 The client information for these exports must be added again after the upgrade. These clients must unmount and then remount the new exports.
DDOS-289508 If a share is created with /ddvar/<x>, it changes to /ddvar during the upgrade. With the new changes, mounting subdirectories of /ddvar does not work with CIFS. Use the /ddvar share to access its sub folders.

 

7.13.1.20 Release (January 2025)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.20-1148611
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.20-1148611
  • DDMC: 7.13.1.20-1148611

DDOS File system

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-20984 Fixed an issue where the cmc_dump -L command did not allow specifying an optional directory path with sufficient space for container dumps.
DDOSCFD-20198 Fixed an issue that was causing PANIC when mrepl was syncing in the Cyber Recovery Environment.
DDOS-273396 Resolved an issue where users with the ‘None’ role could bypass authorization on certain endpoints, such as enabling or disabling CIFS, which they should not be able to access.

 

DDOS Platform

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-21387 Fixed an issue where the system was not recognizing the NIC card when it was inserted into the same slot that an FC card was inserted.
DDOSCFD-20857 Fixed an issue where the HA implementation was delayed with multiple errors after the DD upgrade.
DDOSCFD-20399 Identified that the security scan report generates a false vulnerability message: ‘HTTP OPTIONS Method Enabled’ that has no impact on DD.

 

DDOS Security

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-22818  Fixed an issue that was encountered when adding a new Data Domain to Avamar.
DDOSCFD-22813 Fixed an issue where the DDOS was displaying the wrong valid until date for root certificates.
DDOSCFD-21535 Resolved an issue where, after a DDOS upgrade, the DDGUI was slow and displayed ‘incorrect username or password’ upon login, despite using the same sysadmin credentials working on PuTTY/CLI.
DDOS-274103 Fixed an issue where the LDAP users created with a hyphen in the name could not log in to DD through SSH, user interface, or Telnet.
DDOS-265512 Resolved an issue where there was an unplanned downtime of protection storage in IDPA and DM5500 due to a memory leak within SMS consuming available memory on DD. 
DDOS-264372 Resolved an issue where the FIPS was resetting the hash password to MD5 instead of the new default, SHA512.

 

DDVE

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-23291 Resolved a poor performance issue from DDVE in Azure and PowerProtect Data Manager in AVS.

 

7.13.1.10 Release (November 2024)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.10-1136647
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.10-1136647
  • DDMC: 7.13.1.10-1136647
  • DD BoostFS: 7.13.1.10-1135379

DDOS General

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-21289 Resolved the issue in the Update tab, where the new registry entries were added in addition to existing AD entries creating inconsistencies.
DDOSCFD-20740 Resolved the truncation issue in the DD REST API response for hostnames exceeding 49 characters.
DDOSCFD-20158 Resolved an issue where the DD Boost library could not connect to DD in Smart Scale on port 2053 due to a ddboost API timeout.
DDOSCFD-19841 Fixed an issue with the Report filter where it was set for a few systems, but the generated report included information for all systems.
DDOSCFD-19435 Resolved an issue where redundant user information lookups on AD for both local and AD users were causing slowness in login and degrading the user experience in the user interface.
DDOSCFD-19390 Fixed an issue where the vtl show stats CLI output was incorrect when devices were added to another VTL group.
DDOSCFD-17190 Added an option in cmck to check and reset the value of cms_type after corruption.

 

DDOS Filesystem

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-21087 Fixed an issue where the file system restart with no panic string after the system upgrade.
DDOSCFD-20874 Fixed the migration issue and updated metadata for a cloud unit that was inactive from long time.
DDOSCFD-20841 Resolved the Active Directory issue that was preventing non-admin users from accessing certain features.
DDOSCFD-20578 Fixed an issue where error handling indicated 'Full Index Growth Failure' despite 'Partial Success'.
DDOSCFD-20350 Resolved an issue causing frequent file system restarts and system slowdowns following the upgrade.
DDOSCFD-20347 Implemented retry functionality for CIFS restart on the standby node to ensure that the HA standby node maintains connectivity to AD.
DDOSCFD-15854 Resolved a problem causing the DDFS to restart unexpectedly because of an unstable file system.

 

DDOS Platform

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-20776 Fixed an issue where the system goes to HA degraded state for more than 90 minutes after the firmware upgrade.
DDOSCFD-20565 Fixed the issue where DDMC reports were showing inaccurate utilization figures for certain managed systems.
DDOSCFD-20541 Resolved the problem causing the DD system to reboot with a Kernel Panic message following the disk replacement
DDOSCFD-20236 Resolved an issue where the system failed to detect protection storage, preventing backups and restores in the production environment.
DDOSCFD-19965 Resolved an issue where realigned disks were appearing as failed instead of spare following the DDOS 7.13 upgrade.
DDOSCFD-18795 Resolved the booting issue experienced by the customer following the upgrade to DDOS 7.7.5.25.
DDOS-255280 Fixed an issue involving memory duplication created during the delayed deletion.
DDOS-254012 Fixed an issue with inconsistent firmware updates following the 7.13.1.0 upgrade.

 

DDOS Security

Fixed Issue Description
DDOS-265148 Enabled TLS 1.3 and ECDHE cipher support with KMIP.
DDOSCFD-21459 Resolved the multifactor authentication issue that caused the file system to crash while running a few commands.
DDOSCFD-18451 Introduced new privileges for a secure access.
DDOS-241314 Implemented customized PAM that prompts the customer to reset the password when the customer tries to log in three times with an incorrect password.

 

DDOS Replication

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-20059 Resolved the unique ingest issue identified in Avamar Replication Directories when transferring from one mtree to another on the same DD host.

7.13.1.05 Release (September 2024)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.05-1126976
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.05-1126976
  • DDMC: 7.13.1.05-1126976 

DDOS Platform

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-21451 Resolved an issue where the High Availability (HA) remained in a degraded status for an extended period after an upgrade due to the locking issues with the socket memory. 

7.13.1.0 Release (June 2024)

Associated Build Versions

  • DDOS Build: 7.13.1.0-1107703
  • DDVE Build: 7.13.1.0-1107703
  • DDMC: 7.13.1.0-1107703
  • DD BoostFS Build: 7.13.1.0-1097516
  • OST Build: 7.13.1.0-1098937

DDOS File System

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-19311 The HSTS protocol is missing from the HTTPS server (RFC-6797).
DDOSCFD-18403 Fix for the customer-imported certificates in DDSM Smart Scale, where the externally signed certificates are stored in the HTTPS certificate root folder.
DDOS-207653 Fix to display an error message when an invalid command is run using the autosupport send command.



DDOS General

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-19046 The static routes are missing after upgrading to DDOS 7.10.1.15.
DDOSCFD-18708 The DD VTL system stops working after upgrading to 7.13.0.20.
DDOSCFD-18683 The scsitarget enable and scsitarget disable command times out until the DD appliance is restarted.
DDOSCFD-18428 The DD UI does not display the VTL tapes from the Cloud Tier.
DDOSCFD-18267 The HA DD system is running in a degraded state and restarts intermittently due to a bad SAS connection.
DDOSCFD-18206 The DD Boost OST plug-in corrects the DD hostname truncation, but resulted in a memory allocation error.
DDOSCFD-17780 When the Cyber Recovery server runs the net config veth0 up command, the command fails with error code 61.
DDOS-229120 When the export file overwrites the system file, a denial of service occurs.



DDOS Platform

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-20098 Fix for an issue where the DD system does not restart after the Storage Processor is replaced.
DDOSCFD-19978 When upgrading to 7.13, the DDNVM reverts to its old hostname after re-deploying with a new hostname.
DDOSCFD-19467 Fix the issue of active/cache/cloud tier unavailable alert appearing after headswap failure.
DDOSCFD-18760 A file system panic is observed when you run the dd_sptool --resync command.
DDOSCFD-18567 The DDMC is unable to connect to DDNVM as the hostname of the DDNVM was changed after DDNVM was restarted after the upgrade to DDOS 7.13.
DDOSCFD-18485 When you upgrade from DDOS 6.1.2.50 to DDOS 7.7, a panic is observed with the following error: PANIC: ddr/gc/gc_select.c: gc_is_pre_selected: 1445: !(!GC_DATA_CHECK(gc_data->gc_flag, RECOMPRESS) || (c->gc_ctx_select_flags & GC_SELECT_FLAG_FORCE_RECOMPRESSION)).
DDOSCFD-18418 When you upgrade from DDOS 7.12 to 7.13, a panic is observed with the following error: PANIC: ddr/sl/sl_blkset.c: sl_blkset_load_metadata: 5226: Blkset type 1608319493 is configured too small (4866048 vs. 4831838); ensure there is enough memory for disk capacity.
DDOSCFD-17999 The alias interfaces may not come up after an upgrade, reboot, or HA failover (manual or panic) due to a race condition in the kernel.



DDOS Replication

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-19287 The CyberSense scan time is high as the recipe file is unavailable in the DD vault.
DDOSCFD-18348 Fix to handle fanout error when running replication.



DD System Manager

Fixed Issue Description
DDOS-216358 Fix to remove unvalidated redirects and forwards when DDSM accepts untrusted inputs.



DDVE

Fixed Issue Description
DDOS-230065 In DDVE on premises DDOS 7.9.0.10, the cloud units are not displayed with the following error: both blkset stable copies are bad.

 



DD Boost

Fixed Issue Description
DDOSCFD-18644 Fix for the virtual machine restore issue with the following error message: "Unable to move data for 'Hard disk 2'. Reading data not successful. Unable to read at 39387660288: [5040] calling system(), returns nonzero (500)."
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Article Number: 000223543
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 28 Nov 2025
Version:  14
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