Magnus Box 26.1.0 Release Notes

Release date: January 26th, 2026

Magnus Box 26.1.0, our latest Quarterly release, marks an important milestone as our Proxmox VE Protected Item graduates from Beta to General Availability. This release also includes numerous enhancements to performance, reliability, and platform support.

Changes compared to 25.8.2

New Features​

Proxmox General Availability​

Proxmox VE Protected Item has graduated from Beta to General Availability and is production-ready.

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor, Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage, and networking functionality on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs, containers and high availability for clusters.

Proxmox restores to Ceph/RBD​

Proxmox restores can now be performed to Ceph/RBD storage.

Proxmox backups and restores with non-root users​

Proxmox backups and restores can now be run using a correctly configured non-root user.

Changed block tracking for Proxmox protected items​

Changed block tracking (CBT) is now supported for Proxmox Protected Items, allowing for significantly reduced job times when backing up low-churn datasets.

Proxmox v9 support​

The Proxmox Protected Item type now supports backing up Proxmox version 9.

Ukrainian translation​

Magnus Box now features a Ukrainian (Українська мова) language translation.

Option to enable user home directory sandboxing on Linux​

Linux users now have the option to enable sandboxing of user home directories, with Magnus Box backing up each home directory data as the owner of that directory and thus ensuring that permissions and ACLs are fully respected.

Support shared quotas across multiple Storage Vaults​

This update brings initial support for sharing quotas between multiple Storage Vaults, allowing for more flexible storage offerings.

Enhancements​

Improved the performance of APIs, particularly when the server is under load​. This brings substantial under-the-hood improvements to the performance of APIs used in regular activities, reducing load on busy servers and increasing throughput of short-lived backup jobs.

Support for running multiple commands in a Program Output Protected Item​

Multiple streams of program output can now be combined into a single program output Protected Item, each with an assigned file name to be used upon restore, allowing for related sets of data to be configured and scheduled in unison.

Tags for custom backup jobs​

Custom backup jobs started via the API can now have tags specified, allowing these jobs to be identified and retrieved by tag through the job history search in the Management Console and through the API.

Added APIs to get, update and delete Protected Items​

API users can now get, update, and delete Protected Items in isolation, without having to interact with the rest of the user profile.

Configure Proxmox Changed Block Tracking in Magnus Box Desktop App​

Changed Block Tracking can now be selected for Proxmox backups via the Magnus Box desktop app.

Visually See Offline Proxmox Nodes​

The Proxmox Protected Item now displays offline nodes with clear visual indicator in the items window. This improvements makes it significantly easier to understand the status of nodes in your Proxmox Cluster.

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed an issue with unable to parse Proxmox storage names with upper-case letters

• Fixed an issue where the Proxmox PI Web UI incorrectly rendered expand/collapse controls on leaf items

• Fixed an issue with displaying EBR volumes at the time of granular restore