Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 1.1.16 released

[Greg Freemyer]

Andrew,

Thanks for all the great work you do on this, but yes a new stable
release would be appreciated.

I use OpenSUSE and they are still distributing 1.0.5 I'm pretty sure
because it is the stable release.

(OpenSUSE 11.0 comes out officially tomorrow, and it may have a newer
rdiff-backup, but I don't think so.  I have not verified that in a few
months, so I could be wrong.)

Greg

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Version 1.1.16 of rdiff-backup has been released. Although the native
> Windows support is not 100% finished, I thought the number of significant
> bug fixes since January warranted a new release. After native Windows
> support is finished, and any bugs reported from this release are fixed, I
> think a new stable release is in order.
>
> Direct links:
>
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.1.16.tar.gz
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.1.16.tar.gz.gpg
>
> If any wants to contribute RPMs or source RPMs, I'd be happy to upload them.
>
> Known issues:
>        - Compare-hash and verify don't honor hardlinks (Savannah #20925)
>        - Unicode issues (Savannah #23080)
>        - Potential for dataloss on case-insensitive filesystems (Savannah
> #21253)
>        - Finish windows support / Build instructions for Windows
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> New in v1.1.16 (2008/06/17)
> ---------------------------
>
> Properly preserve hard links when the destination does not support them.
> Thanks to Andreas Olsson for noticing the problem. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Fix another case where rdiff-backup fails because it has insufficient
> permissions on a file it owns. Thanks to Peter Schuller for the test
> case. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Don't abort if can't read extended attributes or ACL because the path is
> considered bad by the EA/ACL subsystem; print a warning instead. Problem
> reported by Farkas Levente. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> rdiff-backup-statistics enhancements suggested by James Marsh: flush stdout
> before running other commands, and add a --quiet option to suppress printing
> the "Processing statistics from session..." lines. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Don't set modification times for directories on Windows. Also, assume
> that user has access to all files on Windows since there is no support
> for getuid(). (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Add Windows-specific logic for checking if another rdiff-backup process
> is running. Do not try to handle non-existant SIGHUP and SIGQUIT signals
> on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Do not use inode numbers on Windows and gracefully handle attempts to
> rename over existing files on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Finally fix 'No such file or directory' bug when attempting to regress after
> a failed backup. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Improve Unicode support by escaping Unicode characters in filenames
> when printing them in log messages from eas_acls.py. (Fix from
> Saptarshi Guha)
>
> Handle Windows' lack of getuid(), getgid(), hardlinks and symlinks in
> fs_abilities.py. Use subproces.Popen() on Windows since it does not support
> os.popen2(). (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Let setup.py accept arguments on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Get cmodule.c building natively on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
>
> Don't give up right away if we can't open a file. Try chmod'ing it even
> if we aren't root or don't own it, since that can sometimes work on AFS
> and NFS. Closes Savannah bug #21202. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Correctly handle updates to nested directories with unreadable permissions.
> Thanks to John Goerzen for the bug report. Closes Debian bugs #389134 and
> #411849. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Manpage improvements from Justin Pryzby.
>
> Improve the handling of directories with many small files when backing-up
> over a network connection. Thanks to Austin Clements for the test case.
> (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Change high-bit permissions test to check both files and directories.
> Improves rdiff-backup's support for AFS and closes Debian bug #450409.
> (Patch from Marc Horowitz)
>
> rdiff-backup-statistics now supports quoted repositories. Closes Savannah
> bug #21813. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
> Add EBADF to the list of recoverable errors when fsync() is called. This
> fixes an rdiff-backup error on AIX and IRIX. Closes Savannah bug #15839.
> (Fix from Peter O'Gorman)
>
> Properly initialize new QuotedRPaths. Fixes --list-at-time, etc. when
> the target is remote. (Andrew Ferguson)
>
>
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