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Rdiff-backup v2.0.4.rc0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-07-12 // almost 4 years ago

  • 🔄 Changes

    • CHG: explicitly refuse to back-up to exFAT because it doesn't handle properly case insensitive deletion of files, closes #38
    • ✅ CHG: setuptools is a runtime dependency for installation and tests so that version appears correctly instead of DEV, closes #305
    • ✅ CHG: testing explicitly for existence of tempdir might make certain setups fail now because tempdir was silently ignored
    • 🐧 DEV: Add a misc script to setup an ArchLinux as development platform
    • 🔧 DEV: add a new Vagrant configuration to do some smoke tests between the current/development version and any older one
    • 🏁 DEV: Add samba server with pre-defined shares to Windows vagrant setup to allow for more extensive tests on shares
    • DEV: fix compatibility in rollsum and sum-size with rdiff 2.2/2.3 leading to errors in librsynctest, closes #304
    • DEV: function rpath.getdevnums now also returns the device type, block or char
    • 🗄 DEV: replace deprecated xattr.xattr with xattr. function, closes #177
    • DOC: added clearer instructions for installing weak dependencies to support ACLs and EAs under CentOS and RHEL
    • DOC: fix semi-broken nongnu.org links in manpages of rdiff-backup and rdiff-backup-statistics
    • 🛠 FIX: add python3-setuptools as a run time dependency to Debian package so --version works and doesn't output DEV, closes #305.
    • FIX: address PY_SSIZE_T deprecation warning appearing under Python 3.8 in the C code, closes #374
    • 🛠 FIX: avoid error module 'errno' has no attribute 'EDEADLOCK' under MacOSX, closes #366
    • 🛠 FIX: avoid issue with backslash at the end of file path under Windows, closes #395
    • 🛠 FIX: avoid TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' when logging error message by fixing encoding, closes #380
    • 🛠 FIX: explicitly test existence of tempdir and avoid "Can't mix strings and bytes in path components" error, closes #367
    • 🛠 FIX: failed on certain device files with no such file or directory error, closes #401
    • 🛠 FIX: Force encoding of log file to be UTF-8 on all platforms and be lenient to avoid codec errors on logging, closes #356
    • 🛠 FIX: Improve handling of files in use under Windows, closes #392
    • 🛠 FIX: more meaningful error message when trying to test-server a local path, closes #396

    Authors

    • Andreas Olsson
    • Eric L
    • Jirka Vejrazka
    • Neha S
    • Otto Kekäläinen
    • Patrik Dufresne