There existed a bug in the Pathfinder Diagnostics Settings view where it would allow the "Send Diagnostics Info to AMS" setting to be checked while the "Write Diagnostics Info To Disk" setting was unchecked. This is an invalid condition. This bug has been fixed.

The Diagnostics Settings page in Pathfinder has been changed such that the "Write Diagnostics Info To Disk" setting is now named "Enable Diagnostics".

An enhancement has been made to Pathfinder to display a warning message to the user at startup if no USB backup drive is found on the system. A USB backup drive comes installed in new machines, and is not typically removed in the course of normal operation. If a user has removed the drive in order to transfer backups, this warning message is to remind them to put the drive back so that Pathfinder can continue creating automated backups.

Previously, if an automatic Pathfinder backup failed, it would only log this failure to the system logs. This could allow a backup failure condition to continue unnoticed for a long time, which could result in data loss. A change has been implemented to display a warning message to the user at startup if the automatic backup fails.

An enhancement has been made to Pathfinder to change the diagnostic naming scheme for inputs and outputs such that any inputs or outputs that are directly related to an axis will use the name of that axis as their naming prefix. This will allow related I/O to be easily grouped with their related axis in the diagnostics viewer, and any filtering that captures an axis will also capture its related I/O.

There existed a bug in Pathfinder where a malformed PathfinderSpec file would cause a seemingly unrelated unhandled exception later in the startup process. This bug has been fixed, and an incorrectly formatted PathfinderSpec file will now be handled gracefully.

Pathfinder installations that have a large size on disk can take a significant amount of time to copy a backup to the USB drive. This can cause the startup process to take a long time. To alleviate this, the copying of the backup archive to the backup drive has been moved to a background thread. This will allow Pathfinder to quickly start up, even if the process of copying the backup takes a long time.