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After many months of development and testing we’re pleased to announce our biggest update ever - Jungle Disk 2.0.
Jungle Disk 2.0 includes major upgrades in functionality, performance, and ease of use. Here are some of the highlights:
Jungle Disk 2.0 is a free upgrade for all existing Jungle Disk users. Head over to the download page to get the new version.
We’ve also released a public beta of the Workgroup Edition for businesses.
Along with the the Jungle Disk Desktop 2.0 release we’re also pleased to announce the availability of a public beta for the Workgroup Edition. First announced back in April, the Workgroup Edition allows multiple users to securely share a single Amazon S3 account without sharing the account credentials with each user. Instead, sub-accounts are created for each user, and an administrator can control which buckets a user has access to, including support for read-only buckets. The software supports an unlimited number of sub-accounts and buckets.
The Workgroup Edition makes it easy for small companies to backup their desktops and have a secure network drive to share between employees. The software is built on the robust and well-tested codebase of the Desktop Edition. The pricing for the Workgroup Edition software is simple - just $2 per user per month, which includes all the Jungle Disk Plus functionality as well. Each user can install the software on multiple machines at no additional charge and free upgrades are included. All you pay for storage and transfer is the base Amazon S3 rates($0.15 per gigabyte) making Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition one of the most affordable workgroup storage solutions available.
You can read more about the Workgroup Edition on our newly redesigned website. Companies interested in trying out the beta version can sign-up now and get started right away.
The launch of Jungle Disk 2.0 is drawing near. Today we’re making available Release Candidate builds for final testing. If no major issues come up these versions will become the final release. All Jungle Disk 2.0 beta users should update to this version (2.00a) and we’d encourage users still running 1.50 to consider giving this version a try - there are no outstanding issues that we are aware of.
You can download the release candidate from our beta download page. As always, you can read about the latest features and fixes in the release notes. Please post any issues you encounter to our beta forum.
For our Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition private beta testers, we are also making an updated build of the Workgroup Edition beta available. You can download it from our Workgroup Beta download page. For those not in the private beta program, the public beta for the Workgroup Edition will be launching shortly.
An updated version of the Jungle Disk 2.0 beta is now available for download. This version includes the fix for OSX 10.5.3 mentioned yesterday, as well as a number of additional fixes detailed in the release notes. We recommend all beta users update to this version. The software itself is getting very near to release quality, so any users who have been interested in checking it out but concerned about the beta status may want to give this version a try.
The recent Mac OSX 10.5.3 update includes changes to WebDAV support that causes issues with Jungle Disk. Specifically, you may see errors when trying to upload files via the mounted Jungle Disk volume after the update is installed. Downloading files and automatic backup are not affected.
We’ve determined the cause of the issue and created a fix, which is now available in Jungle Disk 1.50d for Mac. The Windows and Linux versions are not affected and have not been updated.
The Jungle Disk 2.0 beta is also affected by this issue and we will be including the fix in the next 2.0 beta release.
We’re in the process of rolling out an update for Jungle Disk Plus Web Access to support Jungle Disk 2.0, including the new Jungle Disk 2.0 buckets as well as compatibility buckets. The new site also supports the iPhone web browser. Note that you can’t upload files from the iPhone as the iPhone web browser does not support web uploads.
If you are a Jungle Disk Plus subscriber with web access enabled you can help us test a beta of the new site by going to:
https://<yourname>.beta.myjungledisk.com
Please post any feedback or issues to our Jungle Disk 2.0 forum.
We’re going to be conducting a private beta test of the Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition in the next few weeks. If you’d like to participate, you can sign-up on our interest list. Resellers who have already signed up on the interest list for the reseller edition will be invited to join the beta as well, you do not need to sign up again.
An updated version of the Jungle Disk 2.0 beta is now available for download. A number of fixes are included as well as some minor features. You can see all the changes in the release notes.
This version also includes the command line Linux client for the first time, which now supports the same automatic backup features as the GUI version. We’re still working on documentation for the XML configuration file, so for the time being we recommend creating your configurations using the GUI client.
As if we weren’t busy enough releasing the Jungle Disk Desktop 2.0 beta last week, we also moved into our swank new offices in Suwanee Georgia (about 25 minutes north of downtown Atlanta). There was a massive Ikea run for new furniture, followed by several hours of turning 2D packages into 3D furniture. We’re now fully up and running and have plenty of room for growth. The fun never stops around here though - next week we’ll be releasing another update for the Jungle Disk 2.0 beta and posting the first news about our beta plans for the upcoming Workgroup Edition as well.
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