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Duplicity 0.7.18.1 Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2018-08-27

New in v0.7.18.1 (2018/08/27)
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* Fixed bug #1788558
  - Treat None as zero when printing log.
* Revert fix for bug #1788599.
  - Was causing problems with directory names

Updated on 2018-10-17.

Duplicity 0.7.18 Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2018-08-21

New in v0.7.18 (2018/08/21)
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* Fixed bug #1756550 Online html man page is showing a 0 byte file
* Partial fix of bug #1734144 with patch from Joris van Eijden
  - Note: this is really just a partial fix for now, since it only covers
    the case where the local size does not yet match the remote size. A
    case where -1 is the returned length is not fixed.
  - Number of retries is now same as globals.num_retries.
  - Added standoff delay of 0.5 sec per attempt.
* Fixed bug #1764432 with patch from Robke Geenen
  - Just join the parts together.
* Fixed bug #1717935 with suggestion from strainu
  - Use urllib.quote_plus() to properly quote pathnames passed via URL
* Fixed bug #1780617 Test fail when GnuPG >= 2.2.8
  - Relevant change in GnuPG 2.2.8: https://dev.gnupg.org/T3981
  - Added '--ignore-mdc-error' to all gpg calls made.
* Fixed bug #1785520 with patch from Chris Hunt
  - Fix for B2 version 1.3.4 just released
* Fix a 2to3 error in ssh_paramiko_backend.py

Duplicity 0.7.17 Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2018-02-26

New in v0.7.17 (2018/02/26)
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* Removed changes made in bug #1044715 Provide a file history feature
  - Changes required too much memory to carry in the manifest
  - The option --file-changed in collection-status is now invalid
  - This will close bugs: #1730451, #896728, #1526557, #1550176
  - Starting a full backup will be needed to fully utilize this fix
* Fix update of Launchpad Translations. Translations were not being picked
  up on a daily basis and we got several months behind.

Duplicity 0.7.16 Released

Written for Duplicity by Kenneth Loafman on 2018-01-12

New in v0.7.16 (2018/01/12)
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* Fixed bug #1733057 AttributeError: 'GPGError' object has no attribute 'decode'
  - Replaced call to util.ufn() with call to util.uexc(). Stupid typo!
* More fixes for Unicode handling
  - Default to 'utf-8' if sys.getfilesystemencoding() returns 'ascii' or None
  - Fixed bug #1386373 with suggestion from Eugene Morozov
* Patched in lp:~crosser/duplicity/fix-oauth-flow
  - Fixed bug #1638236 "BackendException with oauth2client 4.0.0"
* Patched in lp:~crosser/duplicity/dpbx-fix-file-listing
  - Fixed bug #1639664 "Dropbox support needs to be updated for Dropbox SDK v7.1"
* Patched in lp:~crosser/duplicity/fix-small-file-upload
  - Fixed small file upload changes made in Dropbox SDK v7.1
* Fix pylint error in webdavbackend.py

Updated on 2018-01-12.