17 Years • 17 Annual Releases (v1.0 → v17.0)

History & Release Timeline

Explore the separate records of our official corporate registrations in the UK and India, and our complete 17-year annual software release journey from v1.0 in 2009 to v17.0 in 2026.

Jump to:2009 (v1.0)2010 (v2.0)2011 (v3.0)2012 (v4.0)2013 (v5.0)2014 (v6.0)2015 (v7.0)2016 (v8.0)2017 (v9.0)2018 (v10.0)2019 (v11.0)2020 (v12.0)2021 (v13.0)2022 (v14.0)2023 (v15.0)2024 – 2025 (v16.0)2026 (v17.0)

07 July 2026🏛️ Corporate Registration

Worldwide Rewrite Launch📍 Worldwide Expansion • Global Commercial Release

dewDrive Next-Gen Worldwide Architecture

On 07 July 2026 (07/07/2026), dewDrive completed its international corporate unification and launched its ground-up modern rewrite worldwide. Re-engineered as a high-performance polyglot monorepo with native Tauri 2.0 cockpits, Rust virtual workspace micro-daemons, and 24/7 Cloud RMM hardware telemetry.

Official Verification Highlights:

✓Worldwide rewrite launch date: 07 July 2026 (07/07/2026)
✓Native desktop cockpits for Apple Silicon & Intel macOS, Windows 11/10 & Linux
✓Global data sovereign network with localized regional support

2009🏛️ Corporate Registration

Foundation📍 United Kingdom • United Kingdom

dewDrive Software Foundation

Conceived in the United Kingdom in 2009 to eliminate closed-source vendor lock-in, unfair storage markups, and data hostage situations. The founding initiative established client-side encryption and autonomous backup protocols as core sovereign design principles.

Official Verification Highlights:

✓Inception and research origin in the United Kingdom
✓Initial open backup pipelines and automated remote synchronization
✓Core philosophy: Complete user data sovereignty with zero vendor lock-in

2009v1.0🚀 Software Release

Initial Release📍 United Kingdom

dewDrive v1.0 — Initial Inception & Multi-Language Native Daemons

Conceived in the United Kingdom in 2009, dewDrive v1.0 established our founding mission: To protect users from vendor lock-in, unfair storage markups, and data loss. The early architecture relied on specialized native codebases: C/C++ for low-level block hashing and differential algorithms, Objective-C for macOS Cocoa menu-bar daemons, .NET (C#) for Windows VSS snapshot integrations, and Python for cloud sync scripts.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Initial release of the dewDrive backup client (v1.0)
✓Multi-language native daemons (C, C++, Objective-C, .NET, Python)
✓Foundational philosophy: Absolute user data sovereignty with zero vendor lock-in

2010v2.0🚀 Software Release

Sync Engine📍 United Kingdom

dewDrive v2.0 — Continuous Differential Backup Protocol

dewDrive v2.0 introduced automated delta-tracking algorithms, eliminating the need to re-upload unchanged files and drastically reducing bandwidth consumption over early broadband connections.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Byte-level differential file tracking
✓Automated scheduled background sync jobs
✓Bandwidth throttling and retry resilience

2011v3.0🚀 Software Release

OS Watchers📍 United Kingdom / Europe

dewDrive v3.0 — Low-Overhead Cross-Platform Filesystem Watchers

dewDrive v3.0 added native kernel filesystem event monitoring on Windows and macOS, enabling near real-time snapshot generation whenever files were modified or created on disk.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Kernel-level filesystem event hooks (ReadDirectoryChangesW in C++ & FSEvents in Objective-C)
✓Sub-second change detection without periodic disk polling
✓Enhanced multi-user local permission preserving rules

2012v4.0🚀 Software Release

Deduplication📍 United Kingdom / Europe

dewDrive v4.0 — Block-Level Deduplication & Stream Compression

Version 4.0 pioneered local block-level chunking and high-efficiency compression pipelines, allowing enterprise users to reduce their remote storage footprint by up to 70%.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Local fixed-size block hashing and chunk deduplication in C/C++
✓High-throughput LZ4 and Gzip stream compression
✓Integrity checksum verification on all chunk transfers

2013v5.0🚀 Software Release

Live Snapshots📍 United Kingdom / Europe

dewDrive v5.0 — Live VSS Application & Database Snapshots

dewDrive v5.0 added deep integration with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), unlocking hot, non-disruptive backups of running databases (SQL Server, MySQL) and locked corporate accounting files.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Windows VSS snapshot provider integration (.NET / C++) for locked files
✓Hot backups of running database transaction logs
✓Automated pre/post backup execution script hooks

2014v6.0• 20 October 2014🚀 Software Release

Enterprise Expansion📍 UK & India

dewDrive v6.0 — Multi-Tenant Fleet Centralization

dewDrive v6.0 introduced multi-tenant fleet management, allowing MSPs and enterprise IT departments to configure, monitor, and restore hundreds of distributed client machines from a centralized console.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Multi-tenant fleet management portal
✓Centralized policy deployment and automated retention rules
✓Unified alerting and failure detection telemetry

20 October 2014🏛️ Corporate Registration📜 UK Companies House #09271749

UK Incorporated📍 London, United Kingdom • United Kingdom

DEWDRIVE LIMITED

On 20 October 2014, DEWDRIVE LIMITED was officially incorporated under United Kingdom Companies House (Company Number: 09271749). The corporate registration formalized the enterprise backup platform and expanded dedicated infrastructure across the UK and Europe.

Official Verification Highlights:

✓Official incorporation date: 20 October 2014
✓UK Companies House Company Number: 09271749
✓Registered Office: London, United Kingdom
✓Scope: Cloud storage, automated server backup, and secure synchronization

16 August 2016🏛️ Corporate Registration📜 India MCA CIN: U74999KL2016PTC046554

India Incorporated📍 India • India (Ministry of Corporate Affairs)

DEWSPROUT PRIVATE LIMITED

Following nationwide Indian business operations that started in 2014, DEWSPROUT PRIVATE LIMITED was officially incorporated on 16 August 2016 (CIN: U74999KL2016PTC046554). This corporate milestone drove nationwide scale-out of automated cloud backup, enterprise database protection, and Tally accounting recovery systems across India.

Official Verification Highlights:

✓Official India incorporation date: 16 August 2016
✓Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) CIN: U74999KL2016PTC046554
✓Registered in Kerala, India with pan-India enterprise operations
✓Specialized in Tally accounting data resilience, ERP pipelines, and healthcare systems

2015v7.0🚀 Software Release

Zero-Knowledge📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v7.0 — The Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Paradigm

dewDrive v7.0 eliminated server-side key management entirely. We shifted to a strict zero-knowledge architecture where all data is encrypted locally using AES-256-GCM before ever touching the network.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓End-to-end client-side encryption (AES-256 / Poly1305)
✓Client-derived master keys with PBKDF2 / Argon2 key derivation
✓Zero server knowledge: Even storage operators cannot inspect data

2016v8.0• 16 August 2016🚀 Software Release

Accounting Resilience📍 India

dewDrive v8.0 — Specialized Tally & ERP Automated Protection

dewDrive v8.0 rolled out dedicated backup connectors for Tally ERP, SQL accounting packages, and healthcare practice management databases with transactional verification.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Native automated pipelines for Tally accounting & healthcare records
✓Transactional consistency checks and automated test restores
✓High-speed domestic data routing across South Asia

2017v9.0🚀 Software Release

Ransomware Air-Gap📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v9.0 — Immutable Snapshots & Ransomware Air-Gap

In response to the global rise of ransomware attacks, dewDrive v9.0 implemented append-only, immutable snapshot locks. Backups could not be altered, modified, or deleted even if client systems were compromised.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Append-only immutable Merkle snapshot tree architecture
✓WORM (Write Once, Read Many) cloud bucket policy compliance
✓Automated ransomware signature & entropy spike detection

2018v10.0🚀 Software Release

FastCDC📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v10.0 — Content-Defined Chunking (FastCDC)

dewDrive v10.0 replaced fixed-size chunking with Content-Defined Chunking (CDC) using rolling Rabin-Karp hashes. This enabled massive deduplication efficiency across shifting file boundaries like virtual machines and video footage.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Variable-size FastCDC rolling hash chunking engine
✓Dramatically higher deduplication ratios for virtual disks & media
✓Parallel chunk verification and background integrity scrubbing

2019v11.0• November 2019🚀 Software Release

The Rust Transition📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v11.0 — The Rust Async Transition & BYO S3 Storage

Following the historic stabilization of async/await in Rust (November 2019, Rust 1.39), dewDrive began consolidating its fragmented native codebases (C, C++, Objective-C, .NET, and Python) into a unified, memory-safe Rust core with Tokio. Simultaneously, v11.0 opened the storage layer for Bring-Your-Own (BYO) S3 cloud targets (AWS S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, MinIO).

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Architectural migration from C/C++/Objective-C/.NET/Python to memory-safe async Rust
✓Direct BYO S3 cloud object storage connectors with zero markups
✓Drastic reduction in background memory footprint and elimination of runtime fragmentation

2020v12.0🚀 Software Release

Multi-Vault DR📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v12.0 — Multi-Region Vault Replication & Failover

dewDrive v12.0 introduced automated multi-region replication. Snapshots written to a primary Secure Vault were seamlessly copied to secondary geo-distributed vault locations for disaster recovery resilience.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Automated multi-destination vault replication
✓Geo-redundant disaster recovery with instant failover paths
✓Bandwidth-optimized snapshot sync algorithms

2021v13.0🚀 Software Release

Dual Engines📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v13.0 — Dual Open Engine Architecture (Restic & Kopia)

dewDrive v13.0 unified Restic and Kopia inside an abstraction layer. Users gained the freedom to choose between Restic’s rock-solid stability and Kopia’s blazing fast parallel chunking.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Native dual Restic & Kopia engine support
✓Hot-swappable storage repository backends
✓Universal snapshot indexing and unified restore commands

2022v14.0🚀 Software Release

Hardware Telemetry📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v14.0 — SSD SMART Hardware Telemetry & Failure Alerts

dewDrive v14.0 expanded beyond software backup into hardware cyber-resilience, adding background smartctl drive telemetry to warn users of impending NVMe/SSD wear and disk failure before disaster struck.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Integrated SMART drive health & wear-level telemetry
✓Proactive disk failure prediction and early warning alerts
✓Automated emergency snapshot trigger upon hardware degrade warnings

2023v15.0🚀 Software Release

NATS JetStream📍 Global R&D

dewDrive v15.0 — Real-Time NATS JetStream Telemetry Protocol

dewDrive v15.0 replaced legacy REST polling with high-speed NATS JetStream and Protobuf binary serialization, streaming live progress and metrics with sub-millisecond latency.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓NATS JetStream real-time messaging on port 34222/4222
✓Protobuf binary encoding (prost in Rust, @bufbuild/protobuf in TS)
✓Sub-millisecond live backup progress and telemetry streaming

2024 – 2025v16.0🚀 Software Release

Polyglot Monorepo📍 Global Engineering

dewDrive v16.0 — Rust Micro-Daemons & Time Machine Cockpit

dewDrive underwent an architectural overhaul into an Nx polyglot monorepo with Tauri 2.0 desktop cockpits and Rust virtual workspace micro-daemons. During this era, the Time Machine visual recovery cockpit was born.

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Tauri 2.0 native UI paired with Rust virtual workspace daemons
✓Time Machine visual point-in-time snapshot recovery cockpit
✓24/7 Cloud RMM hardware monitoring service integration

20 August 2026🏛️ Corporate Registration

17th Annual Global Release📍 Worldwide Production Release • Global General Availability

dewDrive v17.0 Global General Availability

Marking the 17th major generation of continuous engineering evolution since 2009, dewDrive v17.0 is officially released globally on 20 August 2026 with 4 transparent plans: Free ($0), Basic ($4/mo), Pro ($9/mo), and Advanced ($19/mo).

Official Verification Highlights:

✓Global General Availability date: 20 August 2026
✓17 years of continuous cloud resilience innovation (2009 – 2026)
✓Transparent 4-Tier Plan Structure (Free, Basic, Pro, Advanced)

2026v17.0• 20 August 2026🚀 Software Release

17th Global Edition (v17.0)📍 Global Production Release

dewDrive v17.0 — Worldwide Ground-Up Production Release

The 17th major generation of continuous engineering evolution: Following our complete worldwide rewrite launched on 07 July 2026, dewDrive v17.0 is released globally on 20 August 2026 across macOS, Windows, and Linux with 4 transparent plans (Free, Basic, Pro, Advanced).

Release Highlights & Innovations:

✓Worldwide rewrite launch (07/07/2026) & v17.0 Global Release (20 August 2026)
✓Full cross-platform parity: Apple Silicon, Intel macOS, Windows 11/10 & Linux
✓Dual Restic & Kopia engines, Time Machine instant recovery & Cloud RMM
✓4 transparent tiers: Free ($0), Basic ($4/mo), Pro ($9/mo), and Advanced ($19/mo)

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