Macrium Reflect 8 Update Discussion

Hopachi said:

Macrium Reflect question:
Will v7 still be developed / supported as Free edition?
I read that somewhere on the site.

Guess I'll try v8 now.
Home edition sounds interesting to buy now for the new options but also as a thank you. I used v7 Home for free for years and always was pleased with how it worked.

V7 home will continue to get support for some time if past upgrades are anything to go by. It will still be the only free version for at least 90 days anyway until V8 free is released and I expect it to be supported well past that date.

kado897 said:

V7 home will continue to get support for some time if past upgrades are anything to go by. It will still be the only free version for at least 90 days anyway until V8 free is released and I expect it to be supported well past that date.

Thank you Keith!
That makes it clear to me.

Hopachi said:

Thank you Keith!
That makes it clear to me.

Hopachi said:

Macrium Reflect question:
Will v7 still be developed / supported as Free edition?

Developed - probably not. Supported - almost certainly yes. Reflect v7 was released on 27 Feb. 2017....



...since then v6 has had seven updates, the most recent on 8 May 2019 when W10 1903 broke both v5, v6 and v7.



That also marked the end support for v5, as the modifications couldn't be ported back into the v5 codebase..

Macrium said:

Windows 10 1903, included a breaking file system change that prevented imaging of the system volume (C:). We caught the issue in a preview build, releasing a fix for both v7 and v6. Read more here,

Unfortunately, the age of the v5 codebase prevented backporting the fix.

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kado897 said:

V7 home will continue to get support for some time if past upgrades are anything to go by. It will still be the only free version for at least 90 days anyway until V8 free is released and I expect it to be supported well past that date.

Macrium Software | Macrium release 8 updates and renewals

Reflect 7 product line itself will be fully supported until 17th May 2022. For more details, see our Product Support Policy

I was looking for the exact date of Macrium 8 release and found this, Keith.

ugatme said:

Hey all, I'm using v7 free, does the free v8 install over 7 or separately?

Macrium 8 free won't be released until some 90 days after the release date of Macrium 8 paid version. And yes, the v.8 free version will probably install over the v.7 version.

ugatme said:

Hey all, I'm using v7 free, does the free v8 install over 7 or separately?

Wynona said:

Macrium 8 free won't be released until some 90 days after the release date of Macrium 8 paid version. And yes, the v.8 free version will probably install over the v.7 version.

The v8 Home certainly installed directly over my v7 and retained all my settings, backup definitions and logs. As the only difference between the Free and paid-for installers is the key it installs, then I'd expect the same to apply once v8 Free is officially released.

Wynona said:

Reflect 7 product line itself will be fully supported until 17th May 2022. For more details, see our Product Support Policy

I was looking for the exact date of Macrium 8 release and found this, Keith.

Good find, the Product Support Policy page gives more details...

Product	Released	Extended Support Start Date	Extended Support End Date
Reflect 8	18 May 2021	Reflect 9 release	Reflect 9 release + 1 year
Reflect 7	26 Feb 2017	18 May 2021	18 May 2022
Reflect 6	16 Feb 2015	26 Feb 2017	26 Feb 2018
Reflect 5	1 Jun 2011	16 Feb 2015	16 Feb 2016

Macrium Software | Product Support Policy